Multitarget-Based Virtual Screening for Identification of Herbal Substances toward Potential Osteoclastic Targets

Identification of ligands for RNA targets via structure-based virtual screening: HIV-1 TAR

Binding of the Tat protein to TAR RNA is necessary for viral replication of HIV-1. We screened the Available Chemicals Directory (ACD) to identify ligands to bind to a TAR RNA structure using a four-step docking procedure: rigid docking first, followed by three steps of flexible docking using a pseudobrownian Monte Carlo minimization in torsion angle space with progressively more detailed confo...

Screening of Herbal Medicines for Potential Toxicities

Nucleotide sequence-based multitarget identification.

MULTIGEN technology (T. Vinayagamoorthy, U.S. patent 6,197,510, March 2001) is a modification of conventional sequencing technology that generates a single electropherogram consisting of short nucleotide sequences from a mixture of known DNA targets. The target sequences may be present on the same or different nucleic acid molecules. For example, when two DNA targets are sequenced, the first an...

3D QSAR pharmacophore based virtual screening and molecular docking for identification of potential HSP90 inhibitors.

Chemical features based 3D pharmacophore models were developed for HSP90 based on the known inhibitors using Discovery Studio V2.1. An optimal pharmacophore model was brought forth and validated using a decoy set, external test set and Fischer's randomization method. The best five features pharmacophore model, Hypo1, includes two hydrogen bond acceptors, three hydrophobic features, which has th...

Structure-Based Virtual Screening Protocol for in Silico Identification of Potential Thyroid Disrupting Chemicals Targeting Transthyretin.

Thyroid disruption by xenobiotics is associated with a broad spectrum of severe adverse outcomes. One possible molecular target of thyroid hormone disrupting chemicals (THDCs) is transthyretin (TTR), a thyroid hormone transporter in vertebrates. To better understand the interactions between TTR and THDCs, we determined the crystallographic structures of human TTR in complex with perfluorooctane...