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One For All? Hitting multiple Alzheimer’s Disease targets with one drug
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dc.contributor.author | Hughes, Rebecca E. | |
dc.contributor.author | Nikolic, Katarina | |
dc.contributor.author | Ramsay, Rona Ruth | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-04-26T10:30:03Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-04-26T10:30:03Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-04-25 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Hughes , R E , Nikolic , K & Ramsay , R R 2016 , ' One For All? Hitting multiple Alzheimer’s Disease targets with one drug ' , Frontiers in Neuroscience , vol. 10 , 177 . https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2016.00177 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1662-453X | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE: 241962569 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE UUID: c944ecd6-e5a9-4abe-8dfa-3b22ffdfba38 | |
dc.identifier.other | Scopus: 84966377266 | |
dc.identifier.other | WOS: 000374817000002 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/8677 | |
dc.description | The authors thank the participants in COST Action CM1103 “Structure-based drug design for diagnosis and treatment of neurological diseases: dissecting and modulating complex function in the monoaminergic systems of the brain” for productive collaborations and COST for funding open access publication. | en |
dc.description.abstract | Alzheimer’s Disease is a complex and multifactorial disease for which the mechanism is still not fully understood. As new insights into disease progression are discovered, new drugs must be designed to target those aspects of the disease that cause neuronal damage rather than just the symptoms currently addressed by single target drugs. It is becoming possible to target several aspects of the disease pathology at once using multi-target drugs. Intended as a introduction for non-experts, this review describes the key multi-target drug design approaches, namely structure-based, in silico, and data-mining, to evaluate what is preventing compounds progressing through the clinic to the market. Repurposing current drugs using their off-target effects reduces the cost of development, time to launch, and the uncertainty associated with safety and pharmacokinetics. The most promising drugs currently being investigated for repurposing to Alzheimer’s Disease are rasagiline, originally developed for the treatment of Parkinson’s Disease, and liraglutide, an antidiabetic. Rational drug design can combine pharmacophores of multiple drugs, systematically change functional groups, and rank them by virtual screening. Hits confirmed experimentally are rationally modified to generate an effective multi-potent lead compound. Examples from this approach are ASS234 with properties similar to rasagiline, and donecopride, a hybrid of an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor and a 5-HT4 receptor agonist with pro-cognitive effects. Exploiting these interdisciplinary approaches, public-private collaborative lead factories promise faster delivery of new drugs to the clinic. | |
dc.format.extent | 10 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Frontiers in Neuroscience | en |
dc.rights | Copyright © 2016 Hughes, Nikolic and Ramsay. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. | en |
dc.subject | Multi-target drugs | en |
dc.subject | Alzheimer’s Disease | en |
dc.subject | In silico | en |
dc.subject | Datamining | en |
dc.subject | Rational drug design | en |
dc.subject | Repurposing | en |
dc.subject | RB Pathology | en |
dc.subject | RM Therapeutics. Pharmacology | en |
dc.subject | Chemistry (miscellaneous) | en |
dc.subject.lcc | RB | en |
dc.subject.lcc | RM | en |
dc.title | One For All? Hitting multiple Alzheimer’s Disease targets with one drug | en |
dc.type | Journal item | en |
dc.description.version | Publisher PDF | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Biology | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Biomedical Sciences Research Complex | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2016.00177 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
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