Expanding the range of 'druggable' targets with natural product-based libraries: an academic perspective.
Existing drugs address a relatively narrow range of biological targets. As a result, libraries of drug-like molecules have proven ineffective against a variety of challenging targets, such as protein-protein interactions, nucleic acid complexes, and antibacterial modalities. In contrast, natural products are known to be effective at modulating such targets, and new libraries are being developed based on underrepresented scaffolds and regions of chemical space associated with natural products. This has led to several recent successes in identifying new chemical probes that address these challenging targets.
Bauer
Renato A
RA
Tri-Institutional Training Program in Chemical Biology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Ave, Box 422, New York, NY 10065, USA.
Wurst
Jacqueline M
JM
Tan
Derek S
DS
D000818:Animals; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D016503:Drug Delivery Systems / Q000379:methods*; D055808:Drug Discovery / Q000379:methods*; D057166:High-Throughput Screening Assays; D006801:Humans; D025941:Protein Interaction Mapping; D054852:Small Molecule Libraries
D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D054852:Small Molecule Libraries