In structure-based drug design, the three-dimensional structure of a drug target interacting with small molecules is used to guide drug discovery. "Structure-based drug design represents the idea that you can see exactly how your molecule interacts with its target protein."This structural information can be obtained with X-ray crystallography or nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR). Originally, structure-based drug design was equated with de novo design or building a molecule from the ground up. Structure-based drug design relies on knowledge of thethree dimensional structureof the...
In structure-based drug design, the three-dimensional structure of a drug target interacting with small molecules is used to guide drug discovery. "St...
