RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research Drug Discovery Computational Chemistry Platform Unit
Unit Leader: Teruki Honma (Ph.D.)
Research Summary

Our unit realizes highly accurate in silico screening from the latest modeling and statistical theory based on three-dimensional structures of target proteins and known inhibitors through collaboration among other drug discovery platform units. We utilize machine learning prediction by experimental data such as assay results and accurate interaction analysis using quantum chemical calculations based on target protein-compound complex structures to optimize compound design considering both main activity and ADMET.
Main Research Fields
- Chemistry
Related Research Fields
- Informatics
- Biological Sciences
- Biology
- Medicine, Dentistry & Pharmacy
- Pharmaceutical chemistry and drug development sciences-related
- Life, health and medical informatics-related
- Structural biochemistry-related
Keywords
- in silico screening
- structure based drug design
- machine learning
- fragment molecular orbital method
Selected Publications
- 1.
Komura, Hiroshi; Watanabe, Reiko; Kawashima, Hitoshi; Ohashi, Rikiya; Kuroda, Masataka; Sato, Tomohiro; Honma, Teruki; Mizuguchi, Kenji.
"A public-private partnership to enrich the development of in silico predictive models for pharmacokinetic and cardiotoxic properties"
Drug Discovery Today, 26(5), 1275-1283, 2021 - 2.
Watanabe, Chiduru; Okiyama, Yoshio; Tanaka, Shigenori; Fukuzawa, Kaori; Honma, Teruki.
"Molecular recognition of SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein: quantum chemical hot spot and epitope analyses"
Chemical Science, 12(13), 4722-4739, 2021 - 3.
Takaya, Daisuke; Watanabe, Chiduru; Nagase, Shunpei; Kamisaka, Kikuko; Okiyama, Yoshio; Moriwaki, Hirotomo; Yuki, Hitomi; Sato, Tomohiro; Kurita, Noriyuki; Yagi, Yoichiro; Takagi, Tatsuya; Kawashita, Norihito; Takaba, Kenichiro; Ozawa, Tomonaga; Takimoto-Kamimura, Midori; Tanaka, Shigenori; Fukuzawa, Kaori; Honma, Teruki.
"FMODB: the world's first database of quantum mechanical calculations for biomacromolecules based on the fragment molecular orbital method"
Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 61(2), 777-794, 2021 - 4.
Sato, Tomohiro; Sekimata, Katsuhiko; Sakai, Naoki; Watanabe, Hisami; Mishima-Tsumagari, Chiemi; Taguri, Tomonori; Matsumoto, Takehisa; Fujii, Yoshifumi; Handa, Noriko; Tanaka, Akiko; Shirouzu, Mikako; Yokoyama, Shigeyuki; Hashizume, Yoshinobu; Miyazono, Kohei; Koyama, Hiroo; Honma, Teruki.
"Structural Basis of Activin Receptor-Like Kinase 2 (R206H) Inhibition by Bis-heteroaryl Pyrazole-Based Inhibitors for the Treatment of Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva Identified by the Integration of Ligand-Based and Structure-Based Drug Design Approaches"
ACS Omega, 5(20), 11411-11423, 2020 - 5.
Shirai, Fumiyuki; Mizutani, Anna; Yashiroda, Yoko; Tsumura, Takeshi; Kano, Yuko; Muramatsu, Yukiko; Chikada, Tsubasa; Yuki, Hitomi; Niwa, Hideaki; Sato, Shin; Washizuka, Kenichi; Koda, Yasuko; Mazaki, Yui; Jang, Myung-Kyu; Yoshida, Haruka; Nagamori, Akiko; Okue, Masayuki; Watanabe, Takashi; Kitamura, Kouichi; Shitara, Eiki; Honma, Teruki; Umehara, Takashi; Shirouzu, Mikako; Fukami, Takehiro; Seimiya, Hiroyuki; Yoshida, Minoru; Koyama, Hiroo.
"Design and Discovery of an Orally Efficacious Spiroindolinone-Based Tankyrase Inhibitor for the Treatment of Colon Cancer"
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 63(8), 4183-4204, 2020 - 6.
Ogura, Keiji; Sato, Tomohiro; Yuki, Hitomi; Honma, Teruki.
"Support Vector Machine model for hERG inhibitory activities based on the integrated hERG database using descriptor selection by NSGA-II"
Scientific Reports, 9(1), 1-12, 2019 - 7.
Sato, Tomohiro; Yuki, Hitomi; Ogura, Keiji; Honma, Teruki.
"Construction of an integrated database for hERG blocking small molecules"
PLoS One, 13(7), e0199348/1-e0199348/18, 2018 - 8.
Watanabe, Chiduru; Watanabe, Hirofumi; Fukuzawa, Kaori; Parker, Lorien J.; Okiyama, Yoshio; Yuki, Hitomi; Yokoyama, Shigeyuki; Nakano, Hirofumi; Tanaka, Shigenori; Honma, Teruki.
"Theoretical Analysis of Activity Cliffs among Benzofuranone-Class Pim1 Inhibitors Using the Fragment Molecular Orbital Method with Molecular Mechanics Poisson-Boltzmann Surface Area (FMO+MM-PBSA) Approach"
Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 57(12), 2996-3010, 2017 - 9.
Saito, Yoriko; Yuki, Hitomi; Kuratani, Mitsuo; Hashizume, Yoshinobu; Takagi, Shinsuke; Honma, Teruki; Tanaka, Akiko; Shirouzu, Mikako; Mikuni, Junko; Handa, Noriko; Ogahara, Ikuko; Sone, Akiko; Najima, Yuho; Tomabechi, Yuri; Wakiyama, Motoaki; Uchida, Naoyuki; Tomizawa-Murasawa, Mariko; Kaneko, Akiko; Tanaka, Satoshi; Suzuki, Nahoko; Kajita, Hiroshi; Aoki, Yuki; Ohara, Osamu; Shultz, Leonard D.; Fukami, Takehiro; Goto, Toshio; Taniguchi, Shuichi; Yokoyama, Shigeyuki; Ishikawa, Fumihiko.
"A pyrrolo-pyrimidine derivative targets human primary AML stem cells in vivo"
Science Translational Medicine, 5(181), 181ra52, 16 pp., 2013 - 10.
Yuki, Hitomi; Honma, Teruki; Hata, Masayuki; Hoshino, Tyuji.
"Prediction of sites of metabolism in a substrate molecule, instanced by carbamazepine oxidation by CYP3A4"
Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, 20(2), 775-783, 2012
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Lab Members
Principal investigator
- Teruki Honma
- Unit Leader
Core members
- Hitomi Yuki
- Technical Scientist
- Tomohiro Sato
- Research Scientist
- Chiduru Watanabe
- Research Scientist
- Kikuko Kamisaka
- Technical Scientist
- Mayuko Yasuda
- Expert Technician
- Norihiko Tani
- Technical Staff I
- Yuki Saito
- Assistant
Contact Information
Central Research Building C120
1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku,
Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
Tel: +81-(0)45-503-9551
Email: honma.teruki [at] riken.jp