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An ab initio quantum mechanical drug designing procedure: application to the design of balanced dual ACE/NEP inhibitors

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This article describes in a sequential fashion how ab initio quantum mechanical methods can be applied to study the pharmacophoric features of drugs. It also describes how accurate drug–receptor interaction calculations can guide the careful design of balanced dual inhibitors, which form an important class of second generation drugs. As an example, the authors have chosen balanced inhibitors of angiotensin converting enzyme/neutral endopeptidase (ACE/NEP) as modern antihypertensive drugs. A unified, accurate, in silico design approach is presented, encompassing all steps from pharmacophore derivation to complete understanding of mechanistic aspects leading to drug design.

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Acknowledgments

We gratefully acknowledge financial support by DST (Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi) project no. SR/S1/PC-06/2004. One of us (N. K. Rao) gratefully acknowledges DST for the Senior Research Fellowship.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, University Institute of Engineering and Technology, CSJM University, Kanpur, 208024, India

    Nishi K. Rao & Arpita Yadav

  2. Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics, Department of Genetic Engineering, School of Biotechnology, Madurai Kamaraj University, Tamil Nadu, Madurai, 625 021, India

    Sanjeev Kumar Singh

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Rao, N.K., Yadav, A. & Kumar Singh, S. An ab initio quantum mechanical drug designing procedure: application to the design of balanced dual ACE/NEP inhibitors. J Mol Model 15, 1447–1462 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00894-009-0500-7

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