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ArticleScientific reports2018

A side-effect free method for identifying cancer drug targets.

Md Izhar Ashraf, Seng-Kai Ong, Shama Mujawar, Shrikant Pawar, Pallavi More, Somnath Paul, Chandrajit Lahiri

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Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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Md Izhar AshrafThe Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, 600113, India.
Seng-Kai OngDepartment of Biological Sciences, Sunway University, 47500, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.
Shama MujawarDepartment of Biological Sciences, Sunway University, 47500, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.
Shrikant PawarDepartment of Computer Science & Department of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, 30303, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6157-2462
Pallavi MoreDepartment of Bioinformatics, University of Pune, Pune, Maharashtra, 411007, India.
Somnath PaulDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, India.
Chandrajit LahiriThe Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, 600113, India. chandrajitl@sunway.edu.my.ORCID 0000-0002-9783-7741

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Identifying effective drug targets, with little or no side effects, remains an ever challenging task. A potential pitfall of failing to uncover the correct drug targets, due to side effect of pleiotropic genes, might lead the potential drugs to be illicit and withdrawn. Simplifying disease complexity, for the investigation of the mechanistic aspects and identification of effective drug targets, have been done through several approaches of protein interactome analysis. Of these, centrality measures have always gained importance in identifying candidate drug targets. Here, we put forward an integrated method of analysing a complex network of cancer and depict the importance of k-core, functional connectivity and centrality (KFC) for identifying effective drug targets. Essentially, we have extracted the proteins involved in the pathways leading to cancer from the pathway databases which enlist real experimental datasets. The interactions between these proteins were mapped to build an interactome. Integrative analyses of the interactome enabled us to unearth plausible reasons for drugs being rendered withdrawn, thereby giving future scope to pharmaceutical industries to potentially avoid them (e.g. ESR1, HDAC2, F2, PLG, PPARA, RXRA, etc). Based upon our KFC criteria, we have shortlisted ten proteins (GRB2, FYN, PIK3R1, CBL, JAK2, LCK, LYN, SYK, JAK1 and SOCS3) as effective candidates for drug development.

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Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse ReactionsAntineoplastic AgentsDrug DiscoveryGene Regulatory NetworksHumansNeoplasmsProtein Interaction MapsAntineoplastic Agents

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