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Drug design - MB151P98
Title: Drug design
Czech title: Design lékových forem
Guaranteed by: Department of Cell Biology (31-151)
Faculty: Faculty of Science
Actual: from 2022 to 2023
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: winter s.:combined
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/2, C+Ex [DS]
Capacity: 20
Min. number of students: 5
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Note: enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: RNDr. Mgr. Martin Lepšík, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): RNDr. Mgr. Martin Lepšík, Ph.D.
doc. Ing. Václav Veverka, Ph.D.
Annotation -
Last update: RNDr. Nataša Šebková, Ph.D. (16.04.2024)
One-semester practical course in English aims at obtaining an overview and hands-on
experience in using computational methods for modern drug design. It is desirable that the
attendees have previous knowledge of structure and function of biomolecules, general
chemistry and use of computers for scientific work. Aimed at Master students of 1st or 2nd
year (potentially 3rd year Bachelor students) and PhD students including medical faculties.

The topics covered in the course:
1. Discovery of new biologically active compounds
2. Structure, dynamics and interactions in biomolecule-ligand complexes
3. Biologically active compounds, their properties and interactions
4. Docking, molecular mechanics and dynamics, scoring
5. Ligand-based drug design
Literature -
Last update: RNDr. Nataša Šebková, Ph.D. (16.04.2024)

The topics are partially covered in the following books:

Basic: Young, D.C. Computational Drug Design. Wiley, 2009.

Krogsgaard-Larsen, P; Stromgaard, K; Madsen, U. Textbook of Drug Design and Discovery, 4th ed., CRC Press, 2010.

Recommended: Young D.C. Computational Chemistry, a Practical Guide for Applying Techniques to Real World Problems. Wiley, 2001.

Leach AR. Molecular Modelling - Principles and Applications (2 edition). Pearson Education, 2001.

Alvarez, J. & Shoichet B. (Eds.). Virtual Screening in Drug Discovery. Taylor&Francis, 2005.

Requirements to the exam -
Last update: RNDr. Nataša Šebková, Ph.D. (16.04.2024)

The exam is awarded with 4 credits.

The PROJECT: A mini-project on a selected topic from Hands-on sessions is required for entering the exam.

The EXAM entails questions on the topics covered in the lectures.

Syllabus -
Last update: RNDr. Nataša Šebková, Ph.D. (16.04.2024)

Sylabus

Lecture topics:

1. Molecular foundations of disease, biomolecular targets, drug design and discovery (ML)

2. Structure and dynamics of biomolecular targets (proteins, nucleic acids) (VV)

3. Structural biology methods (X-ray crystallography, NMR, cryo-EM, AlphaFold) (VV)

4. Hands-on Session: PDB database (VV, ML)

5. Biologically active compounds, properties, noncovalent and covalent interactions (JF)

6. Hands-on Session: visualisation of proteins and ligands - PyMol (JF, ML)

7. Virtual screening, docking, scoring (JF)

8. Hands-on Session: Docking - AceDock (JF, ML)

9. Molecular mechanics and dynamics, binding free energy calculations (ML)

10. Ligand-based drug design - QSAR, ADMET, databases (ML)

 
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