PUBLICATION

Discovery of Novel ROCK1 Inhibitors via Integrated Virtual Screening Strategy and Bioassays

Authors
Shen, M., Tian, S., Pan, P., Sun, H., Li, D., Li, Y., Zhou, H., Li, C., Lee, S.M., Hou, T.
ID
ZDB-PUB-170214-80
Date
2015
Source
Scientific Reports   5: 16749 (Journal)
Registered Authors
Keywords
High-throughput screening, Structure-based drug design
MeSH Terms
  • rho-Associated Kinases/antagonists & inhibitors*
  • rho-Associated Kinases/metabolism
  • Phosphorylation/drug effects
  • Animals
  • Molecular Docking Simulation
  • Binding Sites
  • Databases, Chemical
  • Signal Transduction/drug effects
  • Enzyme Activation/drug effects
  • Databases, Protein
  • Atorvastatin/pharmacology
  • Protein Kinase Inhibitors/chemistry*
  • Protein Kinase Inhibitors/pharmacology
  • Protein Kinase Inhibitors/therapeutic use
  • Zebrafish
  • Amides/chemistry
  • Amides/metabolism
  • Cerebral Hemorrhage/chemically induced
  • Cerebral Hemorrhage/prevention & control
  • Actin Depolymerizing Factors/metabolism
  • Pyridines/chemistry*
  • Pyridines/metabolism
  • Pyridines/therapeutic use
  • Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells
  • Structure-Activity Relationship
  • Humans
  • Disease Models, Animal
  • Protein Structure, Tertiary
  • Inhibitory Concentration 50
  • Pyrroles/chemistry*
  • Pyrroles/metabolism
  • Pyrroles/therapeutic use
PubMed
26568382 Full text @ Sci. Rep.
Abstract
Rho-associated kinases (ROCKs) have been regarded as promising drug targets for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, nervous system diseases and cancers. In this study, a novel integrated virtual screening protocol by combining molecular docking and pharmacophore mapping based on multiple ROCK1 crystal structures was utilized to screen the ChemBridge database for discovering potential inhibitors of ROCK1. Among the 38 tested compounds, seven of them exhibited significant inhibitory activities of ROCK1 (IC50?
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Sequence Targeting Reagents
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Orthology
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Mapping