Crowdsourced identification of multi-target kinase inhibitors for RET- And TAU- based disease- And Multi-Targeting Drug DREAM Challenge

Zhaoping Xiong, Minji Jeon, Robert J. Allaway, Jaewoo Kang, Donghyeon Park, Jinhyuk Lee, Hwisang Jeon, Miyoung Ko, Hualiang Jiang, Mingyue Zheng, Aik Choon Tan, Xindi Guo, Kristen K. Dang, Alex Tropsha, Chana Hecht, Tirtha K. Das, Heather A. Carlson, Ruben Abagyan, Justin Guinney, Avner SchlessingerRoss Cagan

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    Abstract

    A continuing challenge in modern medicine is the identification of safer and more efficacious drugs. Precision therapeutics, which have one molecular target, have been long promised to be safer and more effective than traditional therapies. This approach has proven to be challenging for multiple reasons including lack of efficacy, rapidly acquired drug resistance, and narrow patient eligibility criteria. An alternative approach is the development of drugs that address the overall disease network by targeting multiple biological targets (‘polypharmacology’). Rational development of these molecules will require improved methods for predicting single chemical structures that target multiple drug targets. To address this need, we developed the Multi-Targeting Drug DREAM Challenge, in which we challenged participants to predict single chemical entities that target pro-targets but avoid anti-targets for two unrelated diseases: RET-based tumors and a common form of inherited Tauopathy. Here, we report the results of this DREAM Challenge and the development of two neural network-based machine learning approaches that were applied to the challenge of rational polypharmacology. Together, these platforms provide a potentially useful first step towards developing lead therapeutic compounds that address disease complexity through rational polypharmacology.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article numbere1009302
    JournalPLoS Computational Biology
    Volume17
    Issue number9
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2021 Sept

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    Copyright: © 2021 Xiong et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
    • Modelling and Simulation
    • Ecology
    • Molecular Biology
    • Genetics
    • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
    • Computational Theory and Mathematics

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