Spotting and designing promiscuous ligands for drug discovery
Petra Schneider, Matthias Röthlisberger, Daniel Reker, Gisbert Schneider · Chemical Communications · 2015
The promiscuous binding behavior of bioactive compounds forms a mechanistic basis for understanding polypharmacological drug action. We present the development and prospective application of a computational tool for identifying potential promiscuous drug-like ligands. In combination with computational target prediction methods, the approach provides a working concept for rationally designing such molecular structures. We could confirm the multi-target binding of a de novo generated compound in a proof-of-concept study relying on the new method.