PMID- 23487487 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20211021 IS - 1612-4758 (Print) IS - 1612-4766 (Electronic) IS - 1612-4758 (Linking) VI - 35 IP - 3 DP - 2010 TI - In Silico Design and Evaluation of Carboxylesterase Inhibitors. PG - 240-249 AB - Carboxylesterases (CEs) are important enzymes that catalyze biological detoxification, hydrolysis of certain pesticides, and metabolism of many esterified drugs. The development of inhibitors for CE has many potential uses, including increasing drug lifetime and altering biodistrubution; reducing or abrogating toxicity of metabolized drugs; and reducing pest resistance to insecticides. In this review, we discuss the major classes of known mammalian CE inhibitors and describe our computational efforts to design new scaffolds for development of novel, selective inhibitors. We discuss several strategies for in silico inhibitor development, including structure docking, database searching, multidimensional quantitative structure activity analysis (QSAR), and a newly-used approach that uses QSAR combined with de novo drug design. While our research is focused on design of specific inhibitors for human intestinal carboxylesterase (hiCE), the methods described are generally applicable to inhibitors of other enzymes, including CE from other tissues and organisms. FAU - Stoddard, Shana V AU - Stoddard SV AD - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677, USA. FAU - Yu, Xiaozhen AU - Yu X FAU - Potter, Philip M AU - Potter PM FAU - Wadkins, Randy M AU - Wadkins RM LA - eng GR - R01 CA108775/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PL - Germany TA - J Pest Sci (2004) JT - Journal of pest science JID - 101312656 PMC - PMC3593733 MID - NIHMS443622 OTO - NOTNLM OT - CPT-11 OT - QSAR OT - drug design OT - irinotecan OT - modeling OT - molecular dynamics EDAT- 2010/01/01 00:00 MHDA- 2010/01/01 00:01 PMCR- 2013/03/11 CRDT- 2013/03/15 06:00 PHST- 2013/03/15 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2010/01/01 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2010/01/01 00:01 [medline] PHST- 2013/03/11 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.1584/jpestics.R10-06 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Pest Sci (2004). 2010;35(3):240-249. doi: 10.1584/jpestics.R10-06.