Water envelope has a critical impact on the design of protein-protein interaction inhibitors.
Ratkova, E.L., Dawidowski, M., Napolitano, V., Dubin, G., Fino, R., Ostertag, M.S., Sattler, M., Popowicz, G., Tetko, I.V.(2020) Chem Commun (Camb) 56: 4360-4363
- PubMed: 32195483 
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/c9cc07714f
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
6RT2 - PubMed Abstract: 
We show that a water envelope network plays a critical role in protein-protein interactions (PPI). The potency of a PPI inhibitor is modulated by orders of magnitude on manipulation of the solvent envelope alone. The structure-activity relationship of PEX14 inhibitors was analyzed as an example using in silico and X-ray data.
Organizational Affiliation: 
Institute of Structural Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Ingolstädter Landstraße 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany. grzegorz.popowicz@helmholtz-muenchen.de i.tetko@helmholtz-muenchen.de and Medicinal Chemistry, Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolic Diseases, IMED Biotech Unit, AstraZeneca, Gothenburg, Sweden. ekaterina.ratkova@astrazeneca.com.