NmrLineGuru in the news

NmrLineGuru was reported in Featured Purdue news on 12/11/2019 and Purdue Today (the official Purdue University communication) on 12/16/2019.

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Site search: A digital approach to targeting proteins in disease

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Purdue researchers developed software, called NmrLineGuru, to help scientists study specific information about proteins. (Image provided) Download image 

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – What if scientists could create more effective drugs to treat cancers and other diseases by better targeting specific sites of proteins in the body?

That’s the primary question researchers in the Purdue University laboratory of Carol Post, a distinguished professor in Purdue’s College of Pharmacy, are trying to answer. They have developed software called NmrLineGuru to move researchers closer to the answer. Their work is published in the Nov. 5 edition of Scientific Reports.

“We created software for fast  nuclear magnetic resonance lineshape simulation and analysis with multistate equilibrium binding models,” said Chao Feng, a postdoctoral researcher in Post’s lab, who helped lead the research team. “It enables researchers and scientists to study much more specific information about proteins that are linked to serious diseases to help in the drug discovery process.”

Proteins can play a crucial role in many disease states such as the growth of cancer through dysregulation of their activity in the body. The graphical user interface software developed at Purdue can help researchers quickly understand, through simulated models, how certain proteins bind with compounds designed to control their activity in the body.

“Our work stems from a deep understanding of the need in the drug discovery field for better and faster solutions to understand how to affect biological functions of proteins in the body,” Feng said

The Purdue software supports the most common two-, three-, and four-state binding models used in the drug discovery industry to study protein interactions in the body. The software takes the information submitted by the user and creates specific model information about protein intermolecular associations.

The team has been working with the Purdue Research Foundation Office of Technology Commercialization, which supports commercializing, licensing and protecting Purdue intellectual property. For more information on licensing a Purdue innovation, contact the Office of Technology Commercialization at otcip@prf.org.

About Purdue Research Foundation Office of Technology Commercialization

The Purdue Research Foundation Office of Technology Commercialization operates one of the most comprehensive technology transfer programs among leading research universities in the U.S. Services provided by this office support the economic development initiatives of Purdue University and benefit the university’s academic activities through commercializing, licensing and protecting Purdue intellectual property. Contact the Office of Technology Commercialization at otcip@prf.org. The foundation received the 2019 Innovation and Economic Prosperity Universities Award for Place from the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities. The Purdue Research Foundation is a private, nonprofit foundation created to advance the mission of Purdue University.

Writer: Chris Adam, 765-588-3341cladam@prf.org 
Source: Chao Feng, feng34@purdue.edu

 

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