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Marcel J. de Groot

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Pathogenesis of cognitive dysfunction in phenylketonuria: review of hypotheses

MJ De Groot, M Hoeksma, N Blau, DJ Reijngoud… - Molecular Genetics and …, 2010 - Elsevier
In untreated phenylketonuria (PKU), deficiency of phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) results
in elevated blood phenylalanine (Phe) concentrations and severe mental retardation. …

Pharmacophore and three-dimensional quantitative structure activity relationship methods for modeling cytochrome p450 active sites

S Ekins, MJ de Groot, JP Jones - Drug metabolism and disposition, 2001 - ASPET
Structure activity relationships (SAR), three-dimensional structure activity relationships (3D-QSAR),
and pharmacophores represent useful tools in understanding cytochrome P450 (CYP…

Subtype‐selective targeting of voltage‐gated sodium channels

S England, MJ de Groot - British journal of pharmacology, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Voltage‐gated sodium channels are key to the initiation and propagation of action potentials
in electrically excitable cells. Molecular characterization has shown there to be nine …

A quantum chemical explanation of the antioxidant activity of flavonoids

SABE van Acker, MJ de Groot… - Chemical research in …, 1996 - ACS Publications
Flavonoids are a group of naturally occurring antioxidants, which over the past years have
gained tremendous interest because of their possible therapeutic applicability. The …

Extrachromosomal homologous recombination and gene targeting in plant cells after Agrobacterium mediated transformation.

R Offringa, MJ De Groot, HJ Haagsman… - The EMBO …, 1990 - embopress.org
We determined whether T‐DNA molecules introduced into plant cells using Agrobacterium
are suitable substrates for homologous recombination. For the detection of such …

Structural determinants of HERG channel block by clofilium and ibutilide

M Perry, MJ de Groot, R Helliwell, D Leishman… - Molecular …, 2004 - ASPET
Block of human ether-a-go-go related gene (HERG) K + channels by a variety of medications
has been linked to acquired long QT syndrome, a disorder of cardiac repolarization that …

Predicting penetration across the blood-brain barrier from simple descriptors and fragmentation schemes

…, PV Fish, S Cole, ML Lewis, MJ de Groot… - Journal of chemical …, 2007 - ACS Publications
The ability to cross the blood brain barrier (BBB), sometimes expressed as BBB+ and BBB−,
is a very important property in drug design. Several computational methods have been …

Designing better drugs: predicting cytochrome P450 metabolism

MJ De Groot - Drug discovery today, 2006 - Elsevier
Many 3D ligand-based and structure-based computational approaches have been used to
predict, and thus help explain, the metabolism catalyzed by the enzymes of the cytochrome …

Novel approach to predicting P450-mediated drug metabolism: development of a combined protein and pharmacophore model for CYP2D6

MJ de Groot, MJ Ackland, VA Horne… - Journal of medicinal …, 1999 - ACS Publications
… For a recent review of these models, see de Groot and Vermeulen. CYP102 is considered
to provide the most useful structural information for homology studies on eukaryotic P450s, …

[HTML][HTML] Large neutral amino acids in the treatment of PKU: from theory to practice

FJ van Spronsen, MJ de Groot, M Hoeksma… - Journal of inherited …, 2010 - Springer
Notwithstanding the success of the traditional dietary phenylalanine restriction treatment in
phenylketonuria (PKU), the use of large neutral amino acid (LNAA) supplementation rather …