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ReviewPharmacological reviews2017

Small-Molecule Screens: A Gateway to Cancer Therapeutic Agents with Case Studies of Food and Drug Administration-Approved Drugs.

Nathan P Coussens, John C Braisted, Tyler Peryea, G Sitta Sittampalam, Anton Simeonov, Matthew D Hall

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Review in Pharmacological reviews, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

39 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Nathan P CoussensNational Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland.
John C BraistedNational Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland.
Tyler PeryeaNational Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland.
G Sitta SittampalamNational Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland.
Anton SimeonovNational Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland.
Matthew D HallNational Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland hallma@mail.nih.gov.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

High-throughput screening (HTS) of small-molecule libraries accelerates the discovery of chemical leads to serve as starting points for probe or therapeutic development. With this approach, thousands of unique small molecules, representing a diverse chemical space, can be rapidly evaluated by biologically and physiologically relevant assays. The origins of numerous United States Food and Drug Administration-approved cancer drugs are linked to HTS, which emphasizes the value in this methodology. The National Institutes of Health Molecular Libraries Program made HTS accessible to the public sector, enabling the development of chemical probes and drug-repurposing initiatives. In this work, the impact of HTS in the field of oncology is considered among both private and public sectors. Examples are given for the discovery and development of approved cancer drugs. The importance of target validation is discussed, and common assay approaches for screening are reviewed. A rigorous examination of the PubChem database demonstrates that public screening centers are contributing to early-stage drug discovery in oncology by focusing on new targets and developing chemical probes. Several case studies highlight the value of different screening strategies and the potential for drug repurposing.

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AnimalsAntineoplastic AgentsDrug ApprovalDrug Screening Assays, AntitumorHumansSmall Molecule LibrariesUnited StatesUnited States Food and Drug AdministrationAntineoplastic AgentsSmall Molecule Libraries

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PMID28931623
PMCPMC5612261

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