Exploring the binding site of C-terminal Hsp90 inhibitors

The 90 kDa heat shock protein (Hsp90) is a prominent target for anticancer drug discovery. While its N-terminal domain has been widely exploited, several lines of evidence are emerging in favor of targeting its C-terminal domain to conceive innovative drugs based on perturbation of the dimer interface. Here, we describe the application of several computational approaches useful to predict the location of the C-terminal binding site

A computational workflow for the design of irreversible inhibitors of protein kinases

Design of irreversible inhibitors is an emerging and relatively less explored strategy for the design of protein kinase inhibitors. In this paper, we present a computational approach for the creation of a database of already known reversible inhibitors of protein kinases, the selection of the most promising scaffolds that bind one or more desired kinase templates, the modification of the scaffolds by introduction of chemically reactive groups (suitable cysteine traps) and the final evaluation of the reversible and irreversible protein–ligand. The workflow was tested on a database of known inhibitors of ERK2, a protein kinase possessing a cysteine in the ATP site