An international team has used NMR spectroscopy to study neglected regions of key cell-surface proteins. They have found that these regions undergo minute conformational changes in response to drugs, a finding that could ultimately prove useful in the design of new drugs for a range of diseases.
[NMR paper] Biophysical aspects of the integrated combination of cytostatic drugs with radiothera
Biophysical aspects of the integrated combination of cytostatic drugs with radiotherapy. Part 1: In vitro investigations on the kinetics of activated isophosphamide metabolites and the determination of selective properties of DNA-interstrand and DNA-protein crosslinking mechanisms using 31P-NMR spectroscopy.
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[Stan NMR blog] Spotting explosives and drugs: an EUROMAR 2008 update
Spotting explosives and drugs: an EUROMAR 2008 update
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[NMR paper] NMR of drugs and ligands bound to membrane receptors.
NMR of drugs and ligands bound to membrane receptors.
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Curr Opin Biotechnol. 1999 Feb;10(1):48-53
Authors: Watts A
NMR methods are now able to give detailed structural, dynamic and electronic information about drugs and ligands while constrained at their site of action in membrane-embedded receptors, information which is essential for mechanistic descriptions of their...
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