Research on Protein Structure in Drug Design and Drug Delivery
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomacromolecules, Biobased and Biodegradable Polymers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 June 2023) | Viewed by 340
Special Issue Editor
Interests: protein structure; membrane protein; receptor; trans-membrane signal transduction; liposome; membrane fusion; membrane curvature sensing
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of Polymers is focused on protein-structure-based drug design and drug delivery. Cell receptors, virus spike proteins, envelope proteins, and bacteria membrane sensors are all membrane proteins exposed outside of cells, which are targeted by small molecules, antibodies, etc. that do not need to go inside cells. Others, such as key enzymes, important signal transduction nodes, and gene regulations factors, all reside in cells, which need membrane permeable drugs or delivery systems to get through cell membranes. All kinds of different targets need structural details to elucidate the mechanism of drug effects. Additionally, AI-assisted drug design uses structure information to carry out the analysis and design of drugs.
The aim of this Special Issue is to gather studies on protein-structure-based drug design and drug delivery. Our goal is to gather works on this topic that benefit functional studies, novel drug design, big health studies, etc.
Dr. Qingshan (Bill) Fu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- protein structure
- drug design
- drug delivery
- NMR
- cryo-EM
- crystallization
- AI-assisted drug discovery
- receptor
- spike protein
- envelope protein
- membrane fusion
- endocytosis
- membrane permeability
- targeted drug delivery
