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The rise of molecular simulations in fragment-based drug design (FBDD): an overview #MMPMID32592867
Bissaro M; Sturlese M; Moro S
Drug Discov Today 2020[Sep]; 25 (9): 1693-1701 PMID32592867show ga
Fragment-based drug discovery (FBDD) is an innovative approach, progressively more applied in the academic and industrial context, to enhance hit identification for previously considered undruggable biological targets. In particular, FBDD discovers low-molecular-weight (LMW) ligands (<300Da) able to bind to therapeutically relevant macromolecules in an affinity range from the micromolar (muM) to millimolar (mM). X-ray crystallography (XRC) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy are commonly the methods of choice to obtain 3D information about the bound ligand-protein complex, but this can occasionally be problematic, mainly for early, low-affinity fragments. The recent development of computational fragment-based approaches provides a further strategy for improving the identification of fragment hits. In this review, we summarize the state of the art of molecular dynamics simulations approaches used in FBDD, and discuss limitations and future perspectives for these approaches.