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High-content phenotypic and pathway profiling to advance drug discovery in diseases of unmet need

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Hughes, Rebecca E., Elliott, Richard J.R., Dawson, John C., Carragher, Neil O.·2021·Cell Chemical Biology

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Conventional thinking in modern drug discovery postulates that the design of highly selective molecules which act on a single disease-associated target will yield safer and more effective drugs. However, high clinical attrition rates and the lack of progress in developing new effective treatments for many important diseases of unmet therapeutic need challenge this hypothesis. This assumption also impinges upon the efficiency of target agnostic phenotypic drug discovery strategies, where early target deconvolution is seen as a critical step to progress phenotypic hits. In this review we provide an overview of how emerging phenotypic and pathway-profiling technologies integrate to deconvolute the mechanism-of-action of phenotypic hits. We propose that such in-depth mechanistic profiling may support more efficient phenotypic drug discovery strategies that are designed to more appropriately address complex heterogeneous diseases of unmet need.

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Authors
Hughes, R. E., Elliott, R. J. R., Dawson, J. C., & Carragher, N. O.
Affiliations
Edinburgh Cancer Research (GB)
Corresponding author
Carragher, Neil O.
Venue
Cell Chemical Biology
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2021-03
Volume
28
Issue
3
Pages
338-355
ISSN
  • 2451-9448 (ISSN-L)
  • 2451-9456
OpenAlex
W3138422230
Cited by
62
References
120
Citations by year
2026: 12 · 2025: 15 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 6
FWCI
0.68
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Cell chemical biology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Funders
  • Brain Tumour Charity
  • Cancer Research UK
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computational Theory and Mathematics › Computational Drug Discovery Methods
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Advanced Biosensing Techniques and Applications
Keywords
phenotypic drug discovery, high-content screening, target deconvolution, mechanism of action, drug attrition
MeSH terms
Disease, Pharmaceutical Preparations, Humans, Phenotype, Drug Discovery

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