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ReviewCell chemical biology2016

The Power of Sophisticated Phenotypic Screening and Modern Mechanism-of-Action Methods.

Bridget K Wagner, Stuart L Schreiber

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Review in Cell chemical biology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

51 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Bridget K WagnerCenter for the Science of Therapeutics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA. Electronic address: bwagner@broadinstitute.org.
Stuart L SchreiberCenter for the Science of Therapeutics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

Funding

SYNTHESIS OF MATERIALS WITH PHYSIOLOGICAL PROPERTIESR01GM038627 · NIGMS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI SCHREIBER, STUART L · 1987 to 2017
$10.5M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM038627
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The enthusiasm for phenotypic screening as an approach for small-molecule discovery has increased dramatically over the last several years. The recent increase in phenotype-based discoveries is in part due to advancements in phenotypic readouts in improved disease models that recapitulate clinically relevant biology in cell culture. Of course, a major historical barrier to using phenotypic assays in chemical biology has been the challenge in determining the mechanism of action (MoA) for compounds of interest. With the combination of medically inspired phenotypic screening and the development of modern MoA methods, we can now start implementing this approach in chemical probe and drug discovery. In this Perspective, we highlight recent advances in phenotypic readouts and MoA determination by discussing several case studies in which both activities were required for understanding the chemical biology involved and, in some cases, advancing toward clinical development.

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PhenotypeAnimalsCell DifferentiationCell ProliferationCell SurvivalChondrocytesComputational BiologyDrug Evaluation, PreclinicalFatty Acid DesaturasesHumansRiboswitchSmall Molecule LibrariesStem CellsTranscriptomeFADS2 protein, humanFatty Acid DesaturasesRiboswitchSmall Molecule Libraries

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PMID26933731
PMCPMC4779180

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