Govindaraj Rajiv Gandhi, Naderi Misagh, Singha Manali, Lemoine Jeffrey, Brylinski Michal
1Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA.
2Division of Computer Science and Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA.
NPJ Syst Biol Appl. 2018 Mar 13;4:13. doi: 10.1038/s41540-018-0050-7. eCollection 2018.
Rare, or orphan, diseases are conditions afflicting a small subset of people in a population. Although these disorders collectively pose significant health care problems, drug companies require government incentives to develop drugs for rare diseases due to extremely limited individual markets. Computer-aided drug repositioning, i.e., finding new indications for existing drugs, is a cheaper and faster alternative to traditional drug discovery offering a promising venue for orphan drug research. Structure-based matching of drug-binding pockets is among the most promising computational techniques to inform drug repositioning. In order to find new targets for known drugs ultimately leading to drug repositioning, we recently developed MatchSite, a new computer program to compare drug-binding sites. In this study, MatchSite is combined with virtual screening to systematically explore opportunities to reposition known drugs to proteins associated with rare diseases. The effectiveness of this integrated approach is demonstrated for a kinase inhibitor, which is a confirmed candidate for repositioning to synapsin Ia. The resulting dataset comprises 31,142 putative drug-target complexes linked to 980 orphan diseases. The modeling accuracy is evaluated against the structural data recently released for tyrosine-protein kinase HCK. To illustrate how potential therapeutics for rare diseases can be identified, we discuss a possibility to repurpose a steroidal aromatase inhibitor to treat Niemann-Pick disease type C. Overall, the exhaustive exploration of the drug repositioning space exposes new opportunities to combat orphan diseases with existing drugs. DrugBank/Orphanet repositioning data are freely available to research community at https://osf.io/qdjup/.
罕见病,即孤儿病,是困扰人群中一小部分人的病症。尽管这些疾病共同构成了重大的医疗保健问题,但由于个体市场极其有限,制药公司需要政府激励措施来开发治疗罕见病的药物。计算机辅助药物重新定位,即寻找现有药物的新适应症,是一种比传统药物研发更便宜、更快的替代方法,为孤儿药研究提供了一个有前景的途径。基于结构的药物结合口袋匹配是为药物重新定位提供信息的最有前景的计算技术之一。为了找到已知药物的新靶点,最终实现药物重新定位,我们最近开发了MatchSite,一个用于比较药物结合位点的新计算机程序。在本研究中,MatchSite与虚拟筛选相结合,系统地探索将已知药物重新定位到与罕见病相关蛋白质的机会。这种综合方法的有效性在一种激酶抑制剂上得到了证明,该抑制剂是重新定位到突触素Ia的已确认候选药物。所得数据集包含与980种孤儿病相关的31142个推定药物-靶点复合物。根据最近发布的酪氨酸蛋白激酶HCK的结构数据评估建模准确性。为了说明如何识别罕见病的潜在治疗方法,我们讨论了将一种甾体芳香酶抑制剂重新用于治疗C型尼曼-皮克病的可能性。总体而言,对药物重新定位空间的详尽探索揭示了用现有药物对抗孤儿病的新机会。DrugBank/Orphanet重新定位数据可在https://osf.io/qdjup/上免费提供给研究界。