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Chemical Biology & Drug Design

Edited by:
Tomi K. Sawyer


ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2007: 164/263 (Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)
Impact Factor: 2.043

Chemical Biology & Drug Design (CB&DD) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal dedicated to the advancement of innovative science, technology and medicine with a focus on the multidisciplinary fields of chemical biology and drug design. It is the aim of Chemical Biology & Drug Design to capture significant research and drug discovery that highlights new concepts, insight and new findings within the scope of chemical biology and drug design.

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TopHighlights

Editor's Highlights
The articles below have been selected by the Editor-in-Chief as representing outstanding work published in Chemical Biology and Drug Design. Click on the article titles to read the abstract. Subscribers and readers based at institutions with full access to the journal can read the full articles online. Restricted access? Why not encourage your librarian to subscribe?

Perspectives, Reviews, and R&D Tutorials:
Relational Database Driven Two-Dimensional Chemical Graph Analysis
Steven J. Wilkens
The prion protein: structural features and related toxic peptides
Luisa Ronga et al.
Vicinal Diamino Functionalities as Privileged Structural Elements in Biologically Active Compounds and Exploitation of their Synthetic Chemistry
S.R.S. Saibabu Kotti et al.
Peptide-based Molecules in Angiogenesis
Luca Domenico D'Andrea et al.
Overcoming Roadblocks in Lead Optimization: A Thermodynamic Perspective
Adam J Ruben et al.
Structural Interaction Fingerprints: A New Approach to Organizing, Mining Analyzing, and Designing Protein-Small Molecule Complexes
Juswinder Singh et al.
Peptide, Peptidomimetic and Small-molecule Drug Discovery Targeting HIV-1 Host-cell Attachment and Entry through gp120, gp41, CCR5 and CXCR4
Wieslaw M. Kazmierski et al.
Inhibition of Amyloid Fibril Formation by Polyphenols: Structural Similarity and Aromatic Interactions as a Common Inhibition Mechanism
Yair Porat et al.

Research Articles, Research Letters, and Technology Platforms:
Engineering Metal Complexes of Chiral Pentaazacrowns as Privileged Reverse-turn Scaffolds
Ye Che et al.
T Box Riboswitch Antiterminator Affinity Modulated by tRNA Structural Elements
John A. Means et al.
Molecular Conceptor™ for Training in Medicinal Chemistry, Drug Design, and Cheminformatics
Claude Cohen et al.
Binding Pathways of Ligands to HIV-1 Protease: Coarse-grained and Atomistic Simulations
Chia-En A. Chang et al.
Proliferative Effect of Calcitonin Gene-related Peptide is Induced by at least Five Proteins as Identified by Proteome Profiling
Franka Pluder et al.
Synthesis and Biological Activity of a Focused Library of Mitogen-activated Protein Kinase Phosphatase Inhibitors
David M. Arnold et al.
Site-specific Fluorescent Labeling of Poly-histidine Sequences Using a Metalchelating Cysteine
Beena Krishnan et al.
Alternate Binding Mode of C-terminal Phenethylamine Analogs of Gta (340-350) to Photoactivated Rhodopsin
Matthew A. Anderson et al.
Synthesis of Novel Peptide Inhibitors of Thrombin-induced Platelet Activation
Fernanda M. Burke et al.
Interactions between Conserved Residues in Transmembrane Helices 2 and 7 during Angiotensin AT1 Receptor Activation
Gregory V. Nikiforovich et al.
Cell Signaling and Trafficking of Human Melanocortin Receptors in Real Time Using Two-photon Fluorescence and Confocal Laser Microscopy: Differentiation of Agonists and Antagonists
Minying Cai et al.
A Chemical Genetic Screen for Cell Cycle Inhibitors in Zebrafish Embryos
Ryan D. Murphey et al.
Examination of Two Independent Kinetic Assays for Determining the Inhibition of Carbonic Anhydrases I and II: Structure-Activity Comparison of Sulfamates and Sulfamides
Richard P Shank et al.
Highly Selective Cyclic Peptide Ligands for NeutrAvidin and Avidin Identified by Phage Display
Scott C. Meyer et al.
Exploration of Potential Prodrugs of RWJ-445167, an Oxyguanidine-based Dual Inhibitor of Thrombin and Factor Xa
Bruce E. Maryanoff et al.
A Kinase-focused Compound Collection: Compilation and Screening Strategy
Dongyu Sun et al.
Hierarchical Strategy for Identifying Active Chemotype Classes in Compound Databases
José Luis Medina-Franco et al.
Searching for New Antimalarial Therapeutics Amongst Known Drugs
Jennifer L. Weisman et al.
Structural Evaluation of a Novel Pro-apoptotic Peptide Coupled to CNGRC Tumor Homing Sequence by NMR
Cristina M. Sandoval et al.
Identification of Novel Small-molecule Inducers of Fetal Hemoglobin Using Pharmacophore and 'PSEUDO' Receptor Models
Regine Bohacek et al.
Discovery of Trypanocidal Compounds by HTS of Trypanosoma brucei
Zachary B. Mackey et al.
PHASE: A Novel Approach to Pharmacophore Modeling and 3D Database Searching
Steven L. Dixon et al.
A QSAR Model of hERG Binding Using a Large, Diverse, and Internally Consistent
Training Set
Mark Seierstad and Dimitris K. Agrafiotis
DNA-binding by Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles: Mechanism and Structural Requirements
Catherine M. Goodman et al.
Molecular Mechanism of the Constitutive Activation of the L250Q Human Melanocortin-4 Receptor Polymorphism
Bettina Proneth et al.
Phosphoinositide, Phosphopeptide and Pyridone Interactions of the Abl SH2 Domain
Etienne Tokonzaba et al.
A Light-Activated ß-Turn Scaffold within a Somatostatin Analog: NMR Structure and Biological Activity
Luckner G. Ulysse Jr. and Jean Chmielewski
The Role of Water in Computational and Experimental Derivation of Binding Thermodynamics in SH2 Domains
Sebastien Geroult et al.
Structural Basis of Src Tyrosine Kinase Inhibition with a New Class of Potent and Selective Trisubstituted Purine-based Compounds
David Dalgarno et al.
Cellular Analysis of Disorazole C1 and Structure-Activity Relationship of Analogs of the Natural Product
Peter Wipf et al.
The Discovery of Small Molecule Inhibitors of Neutral Endopeptidase. Structure-Activity Studies on Functionalized Glutaramides
Graham N. Maw et al.
Stability of Gold Nanoparticle-Bound DNA toward Biological, Physical, and Chemical Agents
Gang Han et al.
Use of an Induced Fit Receptor Structure in Virtual Screening
Woody Sherman et al.