Abstract
Small molecule drugs obtained from synthetic compounds or natural products show their therapeutic effects by specifically binding to one or a few target proteins and modulating their functions. In contrast, undesirable drug-protein interactions may provoke harmful side effects. Furthermore, drug-protein interactions also play roles in drug activation, transport, metabolism and regulation of drug resistance. Therefore, systematically identifying binding proteins of a drug molecule is critical for understanding the mechanism of action of the drug at molecular level. In this review, we summarize current widely-used experimental approaches for proteome-wide target identification of small molecule drugs, including affinity purification, chemical proteomics and protein thermal stability based methods. The advance of these methods will quicken the pace of target deconvolution of small molecule drugs and hold promise for drug repositioning research. Moreover, these approaches also provide a powerful arsenal for exploring the signaling pathways of small molecule second messengers, signaling lipids and other regulatory metabolites.
Keywords: Target identification, target deconvolution, drug-binding proteins, affinity purification, chemical proteomics, protein thermal stability, drug repositioning.
Medicinal Chemistry
Title:Uncovering Drug Mechanism of Action by Proteome Wide- Identification of Drug-Binding Proteins
Volume: 13 Issue: 6
Author(s): Tao Cui, Hai Hou*, Yao Sun , Huaixing Cang and Xiangxi Wang
Affiliation:
- School of Life Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, Shaanxi,China
Keywords: Target identification, target deconvolution, drug-binding proteins, affinity purification, chemical proteomics, protein thermal stability, drug repositioning.
Abstract: Small molecule drugs obtained from synthetic compounds or natural products show their therapeutic effects by specifically binding to one or a few target proteins and modulating their functions. In contrast, undesirable drug-protein interactions may provoke harmful side effects. Furthermore, drug-protein interactions also play roles in drug activation, transport, metabolism and regulation of drug resistance. Therefore, systematically identifying binding proteins of a drug molecule is critical for understanding the mechanism of action of the drug at molecular level. In this review, we summarize current widely-used experimental approaches for proteome-wide target identification of small molecule drugs, including affinity purification, chemical proteomics and protein thermal stability based methods. The advance of these methods will quicken the pace of target deconvolution of small molecule drugs and hold promise for drug repositioning research. Moreover, these approaches also provide a powerful arsenal for exploring the signaling pathways of small molecule second messengers, signaling lipids and other regulatory metabolites.
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Cui Tao , Hou Hai*, Sun Yao , Cang Huaixing and Wang Xiangxi , Uncovering Drug Mechanism of Action by Proteome Wide- Identification of Drug-Binding Proteins, Medicinal Chemistry 2017; 13 (6) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1573406413666170518154724
DOI https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1573406413666170518154724 |
Print ISSN 1573-4064 |
Publisher Name Bentham Science Publisher |
Online ISSN 1875-6638 |
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