Targeting MERTK tyrosine kinase: Virtual screening and molecular dynamics insights for anti-cancer drug development

• Kashif Kifayat ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kashif Kifayat, Kamaljot Singh

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Department of General Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China

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• Kamaljot Singh ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kashif Kifayat, Kamaljot Singh

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Faculty of the Basic and Applied Sciences, Sri Guru Granth Sahib World University, Fatehgarh Sahib, Punjab, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0204-9559

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• Mahmood Khan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Biorheological Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, College of Bioengineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China

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• Dur E. Maknoon Razia,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Software

  Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, College of Basic Medicinal sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, China

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• Sara Khan ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Software, Validation

  * E-mail: wangbcc259@163.com (LW); dongchengy@126.com (CD); sarakhan@cuiatd.edu.pk (SK)

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7764-6163

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• Chengyong Dong ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  * E-mail: wangbcc259@163.com (LW); dongchengy@126.com (CD); sarakhan@cuiatd.edu.pk (SK)

  Affiliation Division of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Department of General Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China

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• Liming Wang

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: wangbcc259@163.com (LW); dongchengy@126.com (CD); sarakhan@cuiatd.edu.pk (SK)

  Affiliation Division of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Department of General Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China

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