How Reactive are Druggable Cysteines in Protein Kinases?

Ernest Awoonor-Williams; Christopher Rowley

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How Reactive are Druggable Cysteines in Protein Kinases?

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This manuscript presents our molecular dynamics simulations of kinase proteins. The pKa's of cysteine residues in the active sites were computed using molecular dynamics simulations in order to access their reactivity towards covalent-modifier drugs.

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free energy perturbation

covalent modifier

irreversible inhibition

Michael addition

Chemistry

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How Reactive are Druggable Cysteines in Protein Kinases?

Ernest Awoonor-Williams, Christopher N. Rowley journal article

Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling , Volume 58, Issue 9

Online publication date: Aug 17, 2018

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