Recent results using animal models of inflammatory skin conditions have shown that blockers of the voltage-gated potassium channel, Kv1.3 hold great promise for clinical utility. Kv1.3 blockers act as immunosuppressants by modulating the various subsets of inflammatory T and B cells involved in autoimmune disorders. While peptidic inhibitors based on naturally occurring venoms demonstrate potent and selective Kv1.3 blockade, these require parenteral administration and may face potential immunogenicity problems. Small molecule blockers show considerable diversity, however selectivity over other Kv1- family channels has been difficult to achieve. More recent advances have added to the evidence that Kv1.3 channels are a suitable therapeutic target and that the development of novel and selective agents will herald new drugs for inflammatory skin disorders.
Molecular modelling is widely used in support of medicinal chemistry programs, with several theoretical approaches used in attempts to expedite drug discovery. In this study, three methods – molecular docking (Glide), shape similarity (ROCS), and pharmacophore modelling (Phase) – were evaluated for their ability to reproduce experimentally determined binding modes of 25 PDE4 inhibitors, identified by X-ray crystallography. Molecular docking was able to provide a good approximation (RMSD less than 2 Å) in 59% of cases, when considering the top binding pose. The pairwise comparisons, using molecular shape similarity, gave good matches in 42% of cases. Pharmacophore models were unable to predict good binding modes for a series of PDE4 inhibitors.
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