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Overview

Kaixian Chen is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and has contributed extensively to research in biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their body of work includes 164 publications in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, alongside 75 in medicine, demonstrating a broad engagement with the life sciences.

The scientist's research spans several subfields, including molecular biology, organic chemistry, pharmacology, immunology, and computational theory and mathematics. Their work intersects key topics such as computational drug discovery methods, ubiquitin and proteasome pathways, natural product bioactivities and synthesis, protein degradation and inhibitors, phytochemistry and biological activities, chemical synthesis and analysis, and metabolomics and mass spectrometry studies.

Frequent publication venues for Kaixian Chen comprise:

  • Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
  • Bioorganic Chemistry
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B
  • Acta Pharmacologica Sinica

Notable recent papers by Chen include:

  • TransformerCPI: improving compound-protein interaction prediction by sequence-based deep learning with self-attention mechanism and label reversal experiments (2020, Bioinformatics)
  • Graph neural networks for automated de novo drug design (2021, Drug Discovery Today)
  • Bioinspired large Stokes shift small molecular dyes for biomedical fluorescence imaging (2022, Science Advances)
  • Design, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation of Peptidomimetic Aldehydes as Broad-Spectrum Inhibitors against Enterovirus and SARS-CoV-2 (2021, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry)
  • Inhibition of Autophagy by a Small Molecule through Covalent Modification of the LC3 Protein (2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition)

They have collaborated frequently with coauthors including Hualiang Jiang, Cheng Luo, Mingyue Zheng, Xiaomin Luo, and Yiming Li, indicating an active and consistent network of research partnerships.

Best Publications

  • Predicting protein-protein interactions based only on sequences information.

    Juwen Shen;Jian Zhang;Xiaomin Luo;Weiliang Zhu

  • Pushing the Boundaries of Molecular Representation for Drug Discovery with the Graph Attention Mechanism.

    Zhaoping Xiong;Zhaoping Xiong;Dingyan Wang;Xiaohong Liu;Xiaohong Liu;Feisheng Zhong

  • TarFisDock: a web server for identifying drug targets with docking approach

    Honglin Li;Zhenting Gao;Ling Kang;Hailei Zhang

  • TransformerCPI: improving compound-protein interaction prediction by sequence-based deep learning with self-attention mechanism and label reversal experiments.

    Lifan Chen;Xiaoqin Tan;Dingyan Wang;Feisheng Zhong

  • Halogen bond: its role beyond drug-target binding affinity for drug discovery and development.

    Zhijian Xu;Zhuo Yang;Yingtao Liu;Yunxiang Lu

  • In silico ADME/T modelling for rational drug design

    Yulan Wang;Jing Xing;Yuan Xu;Nannan Zhou

  • PDTD: a web-accessible protein database for drug target identification

    Zhenting Gao;Zhenting Gao;Honglin Li;Honglin Li;Hailei Zhang;Xiaofeng Liu

  • Conformational transition of amyloid β-peptide

    Yechun Xu;Jianhua Shen;Xiaomin Luo;Weiliang Zhu

  • Artificial intelligence in drug design.

    Feisheng Zhong;Jing Xing;Xutong Li;Xiaohong Liu;Xiaohong Liu

  • A Series of α-Heterocyclic Carboxaldehyde Thiosemicarbazones Inhibit Topoisomerase IIα Catalytic Activity

    He Huang;Qin Chen;Xin Ku;Linghua Meng

  • Cinanserin Is an Inhibitor of the 3C-Like Proteinase of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus and Strongly Reduces Virus Replication In Vitro

    Lili Chen;Chunshan Gui;Xiaomin Luo;Qingang Yang

  • pH-dependent conformational flexibility of the SARS-CoV main proteinase (M(pro)) dimer: molecular dynamics simulations and multiple X-ray structure analyses.

    Jinzhi Tan;Koen H.G. Verschueren;Kanchan Anand;Jianhua Shen

  • Virtual Screening on Natural Products for Discovering Active Compounds and Target Information

    Jianhua Shen;Xiaoying Xu;Feng Cheng;Hong Liu

  • Graph neural networks for automated de novo drug design.

    Jiacheng Xiong;Zhaoping Xiong;Kaixian Chen;Hualiang Jiang

  • A Simple and Convenient Copper-Catalyzed Tandem Synthesis of Quinoline-2-carboxylates at Room Temperature

    He Huang;Hualiang Jiang;Kaixian Chen;Hong Liu

  • Three new sesquiterpene glycosides from Dendrobium nobile with immunomodulatory activity.

    W.M. Zhao;Q.H. Ye;X.J. Tan;H.L. Jiang

  • New technologies in computer-aided drug design: Toward target identification and new chemical entity discovery.

    Yun Tang;Weiliang Zhu;Kaixian Chen;Hualiang Jiang;Hualiang Jiang

  • Rapid and efficient Pd-catalyzed sonogashira coupling of aryl chlorides

    He Huang;Hong Liu;Hualiang Jiang;Kaixian Chen

  • Nucleocapsid Protein of SARS Coronavirus Tightly Binds to Human Cyclophilin A

    Cheng Luo;Haibin Luo;Suxin Zheng;Chunshan Gui

  • Biological screening of natural products and drug innovation in China.

    Ming-Wei Wang;Xiaojiang Hao;Kaixian Chen

  • Utilization of Halogen Bond in Lead Optimization: A Case Study of Rational Design of Potent Phosphodiesterase Type 5 (PDE5) Inhibitors

    Zhijian Xu;Zheng Liu;Tong Chen;TianTian Chen

  • 3D-QSAR model of flavonoids binding at benzodiazepine site in GABAA receptors.

    XQ Huang;T. Liu;JD Gu;XM Luo

  • Fluorogenic Probing of Specific Recognitions between Sugar Ligands and Glycoprotein Receptors on Cancer Cells by an Economic Graphene Nanocomposite

    Hai-Lin Zhang;Xiao-Li Wei;Xiao-Li Wei;Yi Zang;Jia-Yi Cao;Jia-Yi Cao

  • Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 3C-like proteinase N terminus is indispensable for proteolytic activity but not for enzyme dimerization. Biochemical and thermodynamic investigation in conjunction with molecular dynamics simulations.

    Shuai Chen;Lili Chen;Jinzhi Tan;Jing Chen

  • Steered molecular dynamics simulation on the binding of NNRTI to HIV-1 RT.

    Lingling Shen;Jianhua Shen;Xiaomin Luo;Feng Cheng

  • How does huperzine A enter and leave the binding gorge of acetylcholinesterase? Steered molecular dynamics simulations.

    Yechun Xu;Jianhua Shen;Xiaomin Luo;Israel Silman

  • The Multiplicity, Strength, and Nature of the Interaction of Nucleobases with Alkaline and Alkaline Earth Metal Cations: A Density Functional Theory Investigation

    Weiliang Zhu;Xiaomin Luo;Chum Mok Puah;Xiaojian Tan

  • Peptide deformylase is a potential target for anti-Helicobacter pylori drugs: reverse docking, enzymatic assay, and X-ray crystallography validation

    Jianhua Cai;Cong Han;Tiancen Hu;Jian Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Hualiang Jiang
Hualiang Jiang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiaomin Luo
Xiaomin Luo Chinese Academy of Sciences
Weiliang Zhu
Weiliang Zhu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Hong Liu
Hong Liu Shandong University
Xu Shen
Xu Shen Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine
Cheng Luo
Cheng Luo Chinese Academy of Sciences
Mingyue Zheng
Mingyue Zheng Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiao-Peng He
Xiao-Peng He East China University of Science and Technology
Yun Tang
Yun Tang East China University of Science and Technology
Jiye Shi
Jiye Shi UCB Pharma (Belgium)

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