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Chem 162B/262B

Drug Design

Acetylcholine receptor

Lecturer:

Dr. Kalju Kahn
Office: PSB-N 2623
Office hours: Tue 3:30-4:30 PM, and Thu 3:30-4:30 PM
Phone: 893-6157
E-mail: kalju@chem.ucsb.edu
Website: http://www.chem.ucsb.edu

Mission statement

To teach principles that govern the process of modern drug discovery and development. Students in the course follow a path similar to that taken by real-life drug developers by learning important elements of the drug design process in a logical order. The course is taught in two different quarters as 162A and 162B but students are welcome to take 162B/262B without taking Chem 162A/262A first.

About Chem 162A

Chem 162A starts with an overview of principles of rational drug design. Topics covered include target identification and validation technologies, generation and screening of chemical libraries for finding lead compounds, and modern medicinal chemistry approaches for ligand-based lead optimization. We will cover membrane-bound ion-channels and receptor proteins, and discuss strategies for finding agonists and antagonists for these types of targets.

About Chem 162B

Chem 162B focuses on structure-based drug design. Students taking this course will become familiar with the basic principles that govern biological recognition in ligand-protein complexes, and learn to appreciate how the knowledge of the three-dimensional structure of the active site helps in the lead optimization process. Chem 162B will also cover approaches used to design competitive and mechanism-based inhibitors through the mechanistic understanding of enzyme catalysis. Finally, issues of pharmacokinetics and drug metabolism will be dealt with, and the rationale behind prodrugs and drug delivery systems will be analyzed.

Schedule

      Lecture:        MWF 12:00-12:50		Place:  Phelps Hall 1444  
      Computer Lab:   Open day access 		Place:  Chem 1153
Syllabus General information about the course. PDF
Textbook The Organic Chemistry of Drug Design and Drug Action by Richard B. Silverman (Second Edition) Amazon
Last Years Drug Design 162A (by Dr. Kalju Kahn) website for Fall 2009 Link
Last Years Drug Design 162B (by Dr. Kalju Kahn) website for Spring 2009 Link
Exam Midterm Preparation Guide PDF
Exam Midterm Key PDF
Exam Final Exam Preparation Guide PDF
Upload Submit your assignments as PDF files Link

Lecture Notes

Course notes will be posted here before 7:30 a.m. of the lecture day. The lecture slides are password-protected. Contact your instructor to obtain the password.

Notes Lecture Notes. Powerpoint Pages in PDF Acrobat
Jan 4 Overview of the course. Review of Key Concepts from 162A PDF
Jan 6 Enzymes as Drug Targets PDF
Jan 8 Enzymes: General Features PDF
Jan 11 Enzymes: Principles of Catalysis PDF
Jan 15 Enzymes: Mechanism and Kinetics PDF
Jan 22 Enzyme Inhibition PDF
Jan 25 Mechanism-Based Enzyme Inactivation PDF
Jan 29 Structure-Based Drug Design: Intermolecular Interactions PDF
Feb 1 Structure-Based Drug Design: Thermodynamics PDF
Feb 3 Structure-Based Drug Design: Protein Structure Analysis PDF
Feb 8-10 Structure-Based Drug Design: Docking PDF
Feb 17 Structure-Based Drug Design: Modeling Protein Flexibility PDF
Feb 24-26 Pharmacokinetics and ADMET Challenges PDF
March 1 Drug Metabolism: Principles PDF
March 3 Drug Metabolism: Overview PDF
March 3 Drug Metabolism: P450 PDF
March 5 P450 Pharmacogenetics, Drug Toxicity & Interactions PDF
Mar 8 Prodrugs and Drug Delivery PDF

Required Literature

Literature Required reading in PDF Acrobat
Enzymes Transition State Binding PDF
Enzymes Enzymatic Transition State Theory PDF
Enzymes Protein Kinase Inhibitors PDF
SBDD The Process of Structure-Based Drug Design PDF
SBDD The Many Roles of Computation in Drug Discovery PDF
SBDD Protein-ligand docking: Current Status and Future Challanges PDF
SBDD High-throughput docking PDF
SBDD High-throughput docking: thyroid hormone receptor PDF
Prodrugs Lessons Learned from Marketed and Investigational Prodrugs PDF
Drug Delivery Targeted Nanoparticles for Cancer Therapy PDF

Suggested Literature

Suggested literature can be found on a separate page

Assignments

The assignments are posted one week before the due date. Answers shall be submitted electronically no later than the midnight of the due date.

Assignments PDF files Acrobat
1 Modeling of Chemical Reactions Link
2 Visualization of Macromolecules Link
3 Molecular Interactions Link
4 Design of Covalent Inhibitors Link
5 Structure-based Drug Design: Docking Link
6 Drug Metabolism and Prodrugs PDF

Answer Keys

The assignment keys are typically posted one week after the due date.

Keys PDF files Acrobat
1 Chorismate Mutase Transition State Link
3 Molecular Interactions: Model Systems Link
4 Covalent Inhibitors PDF
5 Molecular Interactions: Docking Link
6 Drug Metabolism PDF

Drug Design Project

The project milestone guides are typically posted week and a half before they are due.

Project Info General Guidelines to Project Development PDF

Glossary

Students in this course encounter many terms which have specific meaning in the context of drug design and medicine. You may find our glossary helpful when reading some of the assigned papers. If you encounter a term that is not in this dictionary, you could try a specialized medicinal chemistry glossary at www.chem.qmw.ac.uk/iupac/medchem ,an on-line dictionary at www.dictionary.com or an on-line encyclopedia at www.wikipedia.com . Feel free to send any additions and suggestions to Kalju Kahn

Molecular Visualization Resources

PyMOL Home Page
Biomolecular Images for Teaching with PyMOL
SYBYL Tutorial
Short List of Programs

Useful (and used) drug design links

Modern Drug Discovery
Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
Drug Discovery and Development
Drug Design Lecture Notes by Dr. Hugo Kubinyi
Oxford Drug Resistance Group Lectures
Basic Pharmacokinetics
Calcium Channel Blockers
Brain Chemistry
Acetylcholine Receptor
Dr. Andrew Boa lecture notes
An Overview of Marine Drug Discovery

Useful science links

Electronic Journals at UCSB
Google Web Search Engine
Biology Workbench
ExPASy Molecular Biology Server
Protein Data Bank
Periodic Table of the Elements
Cell and Molecular Biology Protocols Online

UCSB links

UCSB General Catalog
UCSB Campus Map
UCSB Gold Login
UCSB Umail Access
UCSB Environmental Health and Safety




Course materials by Dr. Kalju Kahn, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UC Santa Barbara. ©2004-2007