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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL INFORMATION AND MODELING
卷 63, 期 21, 页码 6696-6705出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.3c01050
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The researchers have developed an open-source computational platform, called PSW-Designer, for the design and screening of new photoswitchable ligands, especially for GPCRs. Through two case studies, they validate the predictive capabilities of the platform and anticipate that it will facilitate the design of improved photoswitchable molecules.
Photoswitchable (PSW) molecules offer an attractive opportunity for the optical control of biological processes. However, the successful design of such compounds remains a challenging multioptimization endeavor, resulting in several biological target classes still relatively poorly explored by photoswitchable ligands, as is the case for G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). Here, we present the PSW-Designer, a fully open-source computational platform, implemented in the KNIME Analytics Platform, to design and virtually screen novel photoswitchable ligands for photopharmacological applications based on privileged scaffolds. We demonstrate the applicability of the PSW-Designer to GPCRs and assess its predictive capabilities via two retrospective case studies. Furthermore, by leveraging bioactivity information on known ligands, typical and atypical strategies for photoswitchable group incorporation, and the increasingly structural information available for biological targets, the PSW-Design will facilitate the design of novel photoswitchable molecules with improved photopharmacological properties and increased binding affinity shifts upon illumination for GPCRs and many other protein targets.
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