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Virtual Screening in Search for a Chemical Probe for Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2 (ACE2)

We elaborate new models for ACE and ACE2 receptors with an excellent prediction power compared to previous models. We propose promising workflows for working with huge compound collections, thereby enabling us to discover optimized protocols for virtual screening management. The efficacy of elaborat...

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Autores principales: Kravets, Iryna O., Dudenko, Dmytro V., Pashenko, Alexander E., Borisova, Tatiana A., Tolstanova, Ganna M., Ryabukhin, Sergey V., Volochnyuk, Dmitriy M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8707431/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34946667
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules26247584
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Sumario:We elaborate new models for ACE and ACE2 receptors with an excellent prediction power compared to previous models. We propose promising workflows for working with huge compound collections, thereby enabling us to discover optimized protocols for virtual screening management. The efficacy of elaborated roadmaps is demonstrated through the cost-effective molecular docking of 1.4 billion compounds. Savings of up to 10-fold in CPU time are demonstrated. These developments allowed us to evaluate ACE2/ACE selectivity in silico, which is a crucial checkpoint for developing chemical probes for ACE2.