SAR proteins

Homozygous lines expressing high levels of the antisense of each of the SAR cDNAs have also been developed. In these plants expression of the encoded protein target is strongly depressed. At this point, no indications that the absence of a single SAR protein results in increased disease susceptibility have been found. 

Pasqualato, S., Renault, L., and Cherfils, J. (2002). Arf, Arl, Arp and Sar proteins A family of GTP-binding proteins with a structural device for front-back communication. EMBO Rep. 3, 1035-1041. 

B and W J Howe 1991. Computer Design of Bioactive Molecules - A Method for Receptor-Based Novo Ligand Design. Proteins Structure, Function and Genetics 11 314-328. i H L 1965. The Generation of a Unique Machine Description for Chemical Structures - A hnique Developed at Chemical Abstracts Service. Journal of Chemical Documentation 5 107-113. J 1995. Computer-aided Estimation of Symthetic Accessibility. PhD thesis. University of Leeds, itan R, N Bauman, J S Dixon and R Venkataraghavan 1987. Topological Torsion A New )lecular Descriptor for SAR Applications. Comparison with Other Descriptors. Journal of emical Information and Computer Science 27 82-85. 

Shuker S B, P J Hadjuk, R P Meadows and R P Fesik 1996. Discovering High-affinity Ligands fc Proteins SAR by NMR. Science 274 1531-1534. 

Examples of the application of SAR-by-NMR include the design of stromelysin and human papillomavirus E2 protein inhibitors [7, 8]. 

Since the pioneering work of Kleymann et al. (2002), Betz et al. (2002), Baumeister et al. (2007), and Crute et al. (2002), who showed that compounds identified as inhibitors of the helicase-primase enzyme complex could alleviate herpesvirus-induced disease in animal models, the attention of researchers developing antiviral compounds has been drawn more and more towards the virus-encoded helicases, particularly those of Herpes viruses and of RNA viruses such as Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) and SAKS coronavirus (SARS-CoV). Enzyme activity is usually assayed by measuring NTPase activity in the presence of an appropriate nucleic acid co-substrate although, more recently, novel fiuorimetric and luminescence principles have been applied to the measurement of strand unwinding and/or translocation of the protein along the nucleic acid (Frick 2003, 2006). 

Protein phosphatase 2C Protein arginine methyltransferase Protein arginine methyltransferase Arylalkylamine N-acetyltransferase SARS Cov 3C-like protease AHAS... 

Shuker SB, Hajduk PJ, Meadows RP, Fesik SW. Discovering high-affinity ligands for proteins - SAR by NMR. Science 1996 274 1531-1534. 

All the aforementioned protein members of the cannabinoid system are large, membrane-bound proteins therefore, it is particularly difficult to obtain direct information about their tertiary structure. Thus, at the present time, structure-based drug design is not feasible. Detailed exploration of the SAR and subsequent ligand-based design are the most appropriate means for the development of molecular probes for these proteins. 

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