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ArticleACS infectious diseases2019

Quantifying the Interactions between Biomolecules: Guidelines for Assay Design and Data Analysis.

Peter J Tonge

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Article in ACS infectious diseases, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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Peter J TongeCenter for Advanced Study of Drug Action, Departments of Chemistry and Radiology , Stony Brook University , John S. Toll Drive , Stony Brook , New York 11794-3400 , United States.ORCID 0000-0003-1606-3471

Funding

Mechanism of Slow Onset Enzyme Inhibition and Translation to Time-Dependent Drug ActivityR01GM102864 · NIGMS · STATE UNIVERSITY NEW YORK STONY BROOK · PI TONGE, PETER J · 2012 to 2021
$2.6M
Novel PET Radiotracers for Imaging InfectionR01EB024549 · NIBIB · STATE UNIVERSITY NEW YORK STONY BROOK · PI TONGE, PETER J · 2018 to 2021
$1.4M
Evaluation of a Novel Infection PET DiagnosticR41EB027050 · NIBIB · CHRONUS PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. · PI TONGE, PETER J · 2018 to 2019
$229k
NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB024549NIBIB NIH HHS R41 EB027050NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM102864
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The accurate and precise determination of binding interactions plays a central role in fields such as drug discovery where structure-activity relationships guide the selection and optimization of drug leads. Binding is often assessed by monitoring the response caused by varying one of the binding partners in a functional assay or by using methods where the concentrations of free and/or bound ligand can be directly determined. In addition, there are also many approaches where binding leads to a change in the properties of the binding partner(s) that can be directly quantified such as an alteration in mass or in a spectroscopic signal. The analysis of data resulting from these techniques invariably relies on computer software that enable rapid fitting of the data to nonlinear multiparameter equations. The objective of this Perspective is to serve as a reminder of the basic assumptions that are used in deriving these equations and thus that should be considered during assay design and subsequent data analysis. The result is a set of guidelines for authors considering submitting their work to journals such as ACS Infectious Diseases.

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Data AnalysisSoftwareBinding SitesDrug DesignDrug DiscoveryInhibitory Concentration 50KineticsReproducibility of ResultsStructure-Activity Relationshipbindingconcentration (dose)−response curvesICnonlinear regressionreplicatesreproducibility

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PMID30860805
PMCPMC6570549

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