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Jigsaw puzzles at atomic resolution: Computational design of GPCR drugs from fragments

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Project "FRAGMENT2DRUG" data sheet

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Coordinator
UPPSALA UNIVERSITET 

Organization address
address: VON KRAEMERS ALLE 4
city: UPPSALA
postcode: 751 05
website: www.uu.se

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 Coordinator Country Sweden [SE]
 Total cost 1˙467˙500 €
 EC max contribution 1˙467˙500 € (100%)
 Programme 1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC))
 Code Call ERC-2016-STG
 Funding Scheme ERC-STG
 Starting year 2017
 Duration (year-month-day) from 2017-11-01   to  2022-10-31

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# participants  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    UPPSALA UNIVERSITET SE (UPPSALA) coordinator 1˙467˙500.00

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 Project objective

Despite technological advances, industry struggles to develop new pharmaceuticals and therefore novel strategies for drug discovery are urgently needed. G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) play important roles in numerous physiological processes and are important drug targets for neurological diseases. My research focuses on modelling of GPCR-ligand interactions at the atomic level, with the goal to increase knowledge of receptor function and develop new methods for drug discovery. Breakthroughs in GPCR structural biology and access to sensitive screening assays provide opportunities to utilize fragment-based lead discovery (FBLD), a powerful approach for drug design. The objective of the project is to create a computational platform for FBLD, with a vision to transform the early drug discovery process for GPCRs. As structural information for these targets is limited, predictive models of receptor-fragment complexes will be crucial for the successful use of FBLD. In this project, computational structure-based methods for discovery of fragment ligands and further optimization of these to potent leads will be developed. These techniques will be applied to address two difficult problems in drug discovery. The first of these is to design ligands of peptide-binding GPCRs that have been challenging for existing methods. One of the promises of FBLD is to provide access to difficult targets, which will be explored by combining molecular docking and biophysical screening against peptide-GPCRs to identify novel lead candidates. A second challenge is that efficient treatment of neurological disorders often requires modulation of multiple targets, which also will be the focus of the project.

 Publications

year authors and title journal last update
List of publications.
2018 Jaiteh M , Zeifman A , Saarinen M, Svenningsson P, Brea J M, Loza M I, Carlsson J
Docking Screens for Dual Inhibitors of Disparate Drug Targets for Parkinson’s Disease
published pages: , ISSN: 0022-2623, DOI:
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 2019-06-27
2017 Rudling A , Orro A, Carlsson J
Prediction of Ordered Water Molecules in Protein Binding Sites from Molecular Dynamics Simulations: The Impact of Ligand Binding on Hydration Networks
published pages: , ISSN: 1549-9596, DOI:
Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 2019-06-27
2018 Kennedy A J, Ballante F , Johansson J R, Milligan G, Sundström L, Nordqvist A, Carlsson J
Structural Characterization of Agonist Binding to Protease- Activated Receptor 2 through Mutagenesis and Computational Modeling
published pages: , ISSN: 2575-9108, DOI:
ACS Pharmacology and translational science 2019-08-05

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