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Andrew Doig

Professor of Biochemistry, University of Manchester
Verified email at manchester.ac.uk
Cited by 13257

Drug repurposing: progress, challenges and recommendations

…, KJ Escott, S Hopper, A Wells, A Doig… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2019 - nature.com
Given the high attrition rates, substantial costs and slow pace of new drug discovery and
development, repurposing of'old'drugs to treat both common and rare diseases is increasingly …

Amyloid β protein and Alzheimer's disease: When computer simulations complement experimental studies

…, NV Buchete, S Cote, A De Simone, AJ Doig… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) challenges our society with an annual estimated cost of $1.08
trillion in the United States alone by 2050. 1 AD is a progressive irreversible neurological …

Side‐chain conformational entropy in protein folding

AJ Doig, MJE Sternberg - Protein Science, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
An important, but often neglected, contribution to the thermodynamics of protein folding is the
loss of entropy that results from restricting the number of accessible side‐chain conformers …

[BOOK][B] An automatic method for solving discrete programming problems

AH Land, AG Doig - 2010 - Springer
… We became quite skilful at doing vector operations by … applying a French pronunciation to
‘Land-Doig’, so we don’t think … ), which in fact was what we were doing by not leaving a node of …

Distinguishing enzyme structures from non-enzymes without alignments

PD Dobson, AJ Doig - Journal of molecular biology, 2003 - Elsevier
The ability to predict protein function from structure is becoming increasingly important as
the number of structures resolved is growing more rapidly than our capacity to study function. …

Electrochemical-enzymatic analysis of blood glucose and lactate

DL Williams, AR Doig, A Korosi - Analytical Chemistry, 1970 - ACS Publications
Most analyses of organic blood components are presently performed by spectrophotometric
methods. Recently, many of these methods have utilized enzyme catalyzed reactions …

N‐and C‐capping preferences for all 20 amino acids in α‐helical peptides

AJ Doig, RL Baldwin - Protein Science, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
We have determined the N‐ and C‐capping preferences of all 20 amino acids by
substituting residue X in the peptides NH 2 ‐XAKAAAAKAAAAKAAGY‐CONH 2 and in Ac‐…

The application of life cycle assessment to integrated solid waste management: Part 1—Methodology

R Clift, A Doig, G Finnveden - Process Safety and Environmental Protection, 2000 - Elsevier
I ntegrated Waste Management is one of the holistic approaches to environmental and resource
management which are emerging from applying the concept of sustainable development…

Properties and identification of human protein drug targets

TM Bakheet, AJ Doig - Bioinformatics, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: We analysed 148 human drug target proteins and 3573 non-drug targets to
identify differences in their properties and to predict new potential drug targets. Results: Drug …

Inhibition of protein aggregation and amyloid formation by small molecules

AJ Doig, P Derreumaux - Current opinion in structural biology, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights • We review recent drugs mainly targeting Aβ and how they were identified. • We
report their results from in vitro and in vivo experiments and clinical trials. • We describe …