Antonio Reifs, Alba Fernandez-Calvo, Borja Alonso-Lerma, Jörg Schönfelder, David Franco, Mariano Ortega-Muñoz, Salvador Casares, Concepcion Jimenez-Lopez, Laura Saa, Aitziber L Cortajarena, David De Sancho, Eider San Sebastian, Raul Perez-Jimenez
Protein mechanical stability determines the function of a myriad of proteins, especially proteins from the extracellular matrix. Failure to maintain protein mechanical stability may result in diseases and disorders such as cancer, cardiomyopathies, or muscular dystrophy. Thus, developing mutation-free approaches to enhance and control the mechanical stability of proteins using pharmacology-based methods, may have important implications in drug development and discovery. Here, we present the first approach that employs computational High-Throughput Virtual Screening (HTVS) and Molecular Docking to search for small-molecules in chemical libraries that function as mechano-regulators of the stability of human CD4, receptor of HIV-1...
March 1, 2024: Journal of Biological Chemistry