Fall course: Medicinal Chemistry


Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2a Drug Screening   2b Lead Optimization

Chapter 3a DMPK   3b Prodrug

Chapter 4 SAR   PDBs

Chapter 6 Cardiovascular Drugs   K+ channel    ACEI   Atorvastatin

Chapter 7 CNS

Chapter 5 Cancer  a  b  Folate


Problem Sets (please include your name and student ID in the file name and main text in a single WORD or PDF file;

email me with the subject of "problemset#" (#=1,2,3...) at kruan@ustc.edu.cn)


Further reading

"Discovery of a selective inhibitor of oncogenic B-Raf kinase with potent antimelanoma activity", PNAS 2008

"Clinical efficacy of a RAF inhibitor needs broad target blockade in BRAF-mutant melanoma", Nature 2010

"Prioritization of cancer therapeutic targets using CRISPR–Cas9 screens", Nature 2019

"Structural basis for inhibition of a voltage-gated Ca2+ channel by Ca2+ antagonist drugs", Nature 2016

"Structural Mechanism for Statin Inhibition", Science 2001

"Application of the Three-Dimensional Structures of Protein Target Molecules in Structure-Based Drug Design", JMC 1994

"GLIVEC (STI571, IMATINIB),A RATIONALLY DEVELOPED,TARGETED ANTICANCER DRUG", Nat Rev Drug Disc 2002

"Epigenetic protein families: a new frontier for drug discovery", Nat Rev Drug Disc 2012

"Personalized medicine in oncology: the future is now", Nat Rev Drug Disc 2010

WRN inhibitor, Nature 2024

Name of common cyclic compounds


Links

Pallas: powerful software to predict RO5 & PKPD etc in drug discovery   Pallas demo

Openbabel: Tanimoto Similarity and Structure converter   Openbabel-python

ACD: powerful software for chemical structure and NMR data processing

Pymol: biomolecular structure viewer    Pymolwiki

emolecules.com: compound search

clinicaltrials.gov: FDA drug database

drugbank

www.pdb.org Protein Data Bank

isiknowledge.com: literature

www.ebi.ac.uk/chembldb: ligand/target database

pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov: ligand/target database