title: Emerging principles in protease-based drug discovery.
abstract: Proteases have an important role in many signalling pathways, and represent potential drug targets for diseases ranging from cardiovascular disorders to cancer, as well as for combating many parasites and viruses. Although inhibitors of well-established protease targets such as angiotensin-converting enzyme and HIV protease have shown substantial therapeutic success, developing drugs for new protease targets has proved challenging in recent years. This in part could be due to issues such as the difficulty of achieving selectivity when targeting protease active sites. This Perspective discusses the general principles in protease-based drug discovery, highlighting the lessons learned and the emerging strategies, such as targeting allosteric sites, which could help harness the therapeutic potential of new protease targets.
authors.affiliation: Program in Apoptosis and Cell Death Research, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California 92037, USA. marcin.drag@pwr.wroc.pl
authors.forename: Marcin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Drag
authors.forename: Guy S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Salvesen
mesh_terms: D000495:Allosteric Site; D000818:Animals; D016503:Drug Delivery Systems; D015195:Drug Design; D055808:Drug Discovery; D006801:Humans; D010447:Peptide Hydrolases / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000378:metabolism; D011480:Protease Inhibitors / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D011480:Protease Inhibitors; D010447:Peptide Hydrolases
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