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Gerhard F Ecker

Professor of Pharmacoinformatics, University of Vienna
Verified email at univie.ac.at
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Coexistence of passive and carrier-mediated processes in drug transport

…, A Avdeef, S Bendels, L Di, GF Ecker… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2010 - nature.com
… Only compounds with low passive permeation show significant active transport expressed
by the R GF ratio (apical (a) to basolateral (b) transport rate ratio (inhibited/non inhibited)). …

[HTML][HTML] Prediction of drug–ABC-transporter interaction—Recent advances and future challenges

F Montanari, GF Ecker - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
… Very recently, the hitherto largest data set for BCRP has been compiled by Montanari and
Ecker, and includes 978 unique compounds extracted from 47 studies [43]. Subsequently, the …

Kinetics for Drug Discovery: an industry-driven effort to target drug residence time

…, AP IJzerman, A Müller-Fahrnow, GF Ecker - Drug Discovery …, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights • A public–private partnership targets drug-binding kinetics in a multilevel
approach. • New experimental approaches for measuring drug residence time are presented. • …

Diazepam-bound GABAA receptor models identify new benzodiazepine binding-site ligands

…, Z Varagic, M Mörzinger, IJP De Esch, GF Ecker… - Nature chemical …, 2012 - nature.com
Benzodiazepines exert their anxiolytic, anticonvulsant, muscle-relaxant and sedative-hypnotic
properties by allosterically enhancing the action of GABA at GABA A receptors via their …

Evidence-based approach to assess passive diffusion and carrier-mediated drug transport

L Di, P Artursson, A Avdeef, GF Ecker, B Faller… - Drug discovery today, 2012 - Elsevier
Evidence supporting the action of passive diffusion and carrier-mediated (CM) transport in
drug bioavailability and disposition is discussed to refute the recently proposed theory that …

In silico toxicology: From structure–activity relationships towards deep learning and adverse outcome pathways

J Hemmerich, GF Ecker - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In silico toxicology is an emerging field. It gains increasing importance as research is aiming
to decrease the use of animal experiments as suggested in the 3R principles by Russell …

Passive lipoidal diffusion and carrier-mediated cell uptake are both important mechanisms of membrane permeation in drug disposition

…, P Artursson, A Avdeef, L Di, GF Ecker… - Molecular …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Recently, it has been proposed that drug permeation is essentially carrier-mediated only and
that passive lipoidal diffusion is negligible. This opposes the prevailing hypothesis of drug …

Translation termination factor GSPT1 is a phenotypically relevant off-target of heterobifunctional phthalimide degraders

…, AC Müller, KL Bennett, GF Ecker… - ACS Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Protein degradation is an emerging therapeutic strategy with a unique molecular pharmacology
that enables the disruption of all functions associated with a target. This is particularly …

[HTML][HTML] The N terminus of monoamine transporters is a lever required for the action of amphetamines

…, JH Cha, U Gether, AH Newman, GF Ecker… - Journal of Biological …, 2010 - ASBMB
… The reactions, lasting between 0.5 and 60 min, were terminated by rapid washing with ice-cold
buffer and collected onto glass fiber filters (Whatman GF/B) that were dissolved in …

P-glycoprotein substrate binding domains are located at the transmembrane domain/transmembrane domain interfaces: a combined photoaffinity labeling-protein …

…, E Csaszar, M Peer, T Hrebicek, A Rizzi, GF Ecker… - Molecular …, 2005 - ASPET
… In-gel digestions were performed according to the procedure described by Ecker et al. (2002…
as a function of this amino acid position as described in Ecker et al. (2004). The resulting …