GRC Poster: Identification of SARS-CoV-2 helicase inhibitors by large-scale virtual screening

by Mohammad Anwar Hossain1, Konstantin Popov2, Sumera Perveen3, Kesatebrhan Haile Asressu1, Kenneth Hugh Pearce Jr.2, Cheryl Arrowsmith3, Peter Brown1, Alexander Tropsha4, Tim Willson1 1Structural Genomics Consortium, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; 2CICBDD, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy; 3The Structural Genomics Consortium, University of Toronto, Canada; 4CBMC, UNC Eshelman Read More …

Interrogating PR/SET domains for the ability to bind SAH

This is an excerpt from my PhD thesis where I investigated 13 human PR/SET domains from the PRDM protein family and assessed their ability to bind to a fluorinated SAH analog. The research helps to identify which of the PRDMs could be methyltransferases. This work was carried out in the laboratory of Dr. Cheryl Arrowsmith Read More …