| Literature DB >> 29901398 |
Daniel Merk1, Francesca Grisoni1,2, Lukas Friedrich1, Elena Gelzinyte1, Gisbert Schneider1.
Abstract
Natural products (NPs) are progressively recognized as invaluable source of pharmacological tools and lead structures. To enable NP-inspired retinoid X receptor (RXR) modulator design, three novel RXR-targeting NPs were computationally identified. Among them, valerenic acid was found to be selective for RXRβ, rendering it a unique pharmacological tool compound. The NPs then served as templates for automated, ligand-based de novo design of innovative, easily accessible mimetics that inherited the biological activities of their natural templates.Entities:
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Year: 2018 PMID: 29901398 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.8b00494
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Med Chem ISSN: 0022-2623 Impact factor: 7.446