Computationally-guided optimization of small-molecule inhibitors of the Aurora A kinase–TPX2 protein–protein interaction

Computational binding free energy predictions were validated against experiment and used to design new inhibitors of an important protein–protein interaction.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Chemical Communications

• Publication date

  2017-08-02

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Chemistry

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1039/c7cc05379gPMID 28787041PMCID 5591577
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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