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Gerhard Klebe is affiliated with Philipp University of Marburg in Germany. Their research mainly focuses on Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant number of publications in Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Organic Chemistry, and Cell Biology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the study of enzyme and protein structures, with primary topics covering:

  • Enzyme Structure and Function
  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Biochemical and Molecular Research
  • Computational Drug Discovery Methods
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Chemical Synthesis and Analysis

Klebe's work has been published frequently in several scientific journals, including:

  • ChemMedChem
  • ACS Chemical Biology
  • Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
  • Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling
  • Biomolecules

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Klebe are:

  • "F2X-Universal and F2X-Entry: Structurally Diverse Compound Libraries for Crystallographic Fragment Screening," 2020, Structure
  • "Magnet for the Needle in Haystack: 'Crystal Structure First' Fragment Hits Unlock Active Chemical Matter Using Targeted Exploration of Vast Chemical Spaces," 2022, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
  • "Two Methods, One Goal: Structural Differences between Cocrystallization and Crystal Soaking to Discover Ligand Binding Poses," 2020, ChemMedChem
  • "Protein-Ligand Complex Solvation Thermodynamics: Development, Parameterization, and Testing of GIST-Based Solvent Functionals," 2020, Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling
  • "The Basicity Makes the Difference: Improved Canavanine-Derived Inhibitors of the Proprotein Convertase Furin," 2021, ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Klebe include:

  • A. Heine
  • J. Wollenhaupt
  • M.S. Weiss
  • T. Hüfner
  • Klaus Reuter

Best Publications

  • A Fast Flexible Docking Method using an Incremental Construction Algorithm

    Matthias Rarey;Bernd Kramer;Thomas Lengauer;Gerhard Klebe

  • Molecular similarity indices in a comparative analysis (CoMSIA) of drug molecules to correlate and predict their biological activity.

    Gerhard Klebe;Ute Abraham;Thomas Mietzner

  • PDB2PQR: expanding and upgrading automated preparation of biomolecular structures for molecular simulations

    Todd J. Dolinsky;Paul Czodrowski;Hui Li;Jens E. Nielsen

  • Knowledge-based scoring function to predict protein-ligand interactions

    Holger Gohlke;Manfred Hendlich;Gerhard Klebe

  • Approaches to the description and prediction of the binding affinity of small-molecule ligands to macromolecular receptors.

    Holger Gohlke;Gerhard Klebe

  • Virtual ligand screening: strategies, perspectives and limitations.

    Gerhard Klebe

  • Comparison of Automatic Three-Dimensional Model Builders Using 639 X-ray Structures

    Jens Sadowski;Johann Gasteiger;Gerhard Klebe

  • Three-dimensional quantitative structure-activity relationship analyses using comparative molecular field analysis and comparative molecular similarity indices analysis to elucidate selectivity differences of inhibitors binding to trypsin, thrombin, and factor Xa.

    Markus Böhm;Jörg Stürzebecher;Gerhard Klebe

  • Assessing scoring functions for protein-ligand interactions.

    Philippe Ferrara;Holger Gohlke;Daniel J. Price;Gerhard Klebe

  • A new method to detect related function among proteins independent of sequence and fold homology.

    Stefan Schmitt;Daniel Kuhn;Gerhard Klebe

  • Unexpected nanomolar inhibition of carbonic anhydrase by COX-2-selective celecoxib: new pharmacological opportunities due to related binding site recognition

    Alexander Weber;Angela Casini;Andreas Heine;Daniel Kuhn

  • A Radical Anion Salt of 2,5‐Dimethyl‐N,N′‐dicyanoquinonediimine with Extremely High Electrical Conductivity

    Alexander Aumüller;Peter Erk;Gerhard Klebe;Siegfried Hünig

  • Adding calorimetric data to decision making in lead discovery: a hot tip

    John E. Ladbury;Gerhard Klebe;Ernesto Freire

  • DrugScore(CSD)-knowledge-based scoring function derived from small molecule crystal data with superior recognition rate of near-native ligand poses and better affinity prediction.

    Hans F G Velec;Holger Gohlke;Gerhard Klebe

  • What Can We Learn from Molecular Recognition in Protein–Ligand Complexes for the Design of New Drugs?

    Hans-Joachim Böhm;Gerhard Klebe

  • Relibase: design and development of a database for comprehensive analysis of protein-ligand interactions.

    Manfred Hendlich;Andreas Bergner;Judith Günther;Gerhard Klebe

  • Comparative molecular similarity index analysis (CoMSIA) to study hydrogen-bonding properties and to score combinatorial libraries.

    Gerhard Klebe;Ute Abraham

  • Recent developments in structure-based drug design

    Gerhard Klebe

  • Crystallochromy as a solid-state effect: correlation of molecular conformation, crystal packing and colour in perylene-3,4:9,10-bis(dicarboximide) pigments

    G. Klebe;F. Graser;E. Hädicke;J. Berndt

  • Applying thermodynamic profiling in lead finding and optimization

    Gerhard Klebe

Frequent Co-Authors

Milton T. Stubbs
Milton T. Stubbs Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Christoph A. Sotriffer
Christoph A. Sotriffer University of Würzburg
Eyke Hüllermeier
Eyke Hüllermeier Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Holger Gohlke
Holger Gohlke Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Claudiu T. Supuran
Claudiu T. Supuran University of Florence
Hartmut Fuess
Hartmut Fuess Technical University of Darmstadt
Daniel Rauh
Daniel Rauh TU Dortmund University
Rolf Müller
Rolf Müller Saarland University
Andre Mitschler
Andre Mitschler University of Strasbourg

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