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    Nucleic Acids Res. 2011 Jul;39(Web Server issue):W261-9. Epub 2011 May 27.

    Swimming into peptidomimetic chemical space using pepMMsMIMIC.

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    CRS4-Bioinformatics Laboratory, Parco Sardegna Ricerche, Pula (CA) 09010, Italy.

    Abstract

    pepMMsMIMIC is a novel web-oriented peptidomimetic compound virtual screening tool based on a multi-conformers three-dimensional (3D)-similarity search strategy. Key to the development of pepMMsMIMIC has been the creation of a library of 17 million conformers calculated from 3.9 million commercially available chemicals collected in the MMsINC® database. Using as input the 3D structure of a peptide bound to a protein, pepMMsMIMIC suggests which chemical structures are able to mimic the protein-protein recognition of this natural peptide using both pharmacophore and shape similarity techniques. We hope that the accessibility of pepMMsMIMIC (freely available at http://mms.dsfarm.unipd.it/pepMMsMIMIC) will encourage medicinal chemists to de-peptidize protein-protein recognition processes of biological interest, thus increasing the potential of in silico peptidomimetic compound screening of known small molecules to expedite drug development.

    PMID:
    21622954
    [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
    PMCID:
    PMC3125738
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