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Trends in the exploitation of novel drug targets

Rask-Andersen, Mathias, Almén, Markus Sällman, Schiöth, Helgi B.·2011·Nature Reviews Drug Discovery

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The discovery and exploitation of new drug targets is a key focus for both the pharmaceutical industry and academic biomedical research. To provide an insight into trends in the exploitation of new drug targets, we have analysed the drugs that were approved by the US Food and Drug Administration during the past three decades and examined the interactions of these drugs with therapeutic targets that are encoded by the human genome, using the DrugBank database and extensive manual curation. We have identified 435 effect-mediating drug targets in the human genome, which are modulated by 989 unique drugs, through 2,242 drug-target interactions. We also analyse trends in the introduction of drugs that modulate previously unexploited targets, and discuss the network pharmacology of the drugs in our data set.

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Authors
Rask-Andersen, M., Almén, M. S., & Schiöth, H. B.
Affiliations
Uppsala University (SE)
Corresponding author
Schiöth, Helgi B.
Venue
Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
Published
2011-08
Volume
10
Issue
8
Pages
579-590
ISSN
  • 1474-1776 (ISSN-L)
  • 1474-1784
OpenAlex
W2029335938
Cited by
853
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18
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FWCI
59.67
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Nature Reviews Drug Discovery (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • Brain Research Foundation
  • Vetenskapsrådet
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 › Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
Keywords
novel drug targets, drug-target interactions, FDA-approved drugs, network pharmacology, DrugBank
MeSH terms
Humans, United States, United States Food and Drug Administration, Genome, Human, Databases, Factual, Drug Approval, Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled, Drug Discovery

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