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ArticleScientific reports2021

The effect of protein mutations on drug binding suggests ensuing personalised drug selection.

Shunzhou Wan, Deepak Kumar, Valentin Ilyin, Ussama Al Homsi, Gulab Sher, Alexander Knuth, Peter V Coveney

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Article in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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10 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Shunzhou Wan *Department of Chemistry, Centre for Computational Science, University College London, London, WC1H 0AJ, UK.
Deepak Kumar *Computational Biology, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q), Doha, Qatar.
Valentin IlyinComputational Biology, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q), Doha, Qatar.
Ussama Al HomsiHematology and Oncology Department, National Center for Cancer Care & Research, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.
Gulab SherInterim Translational Research Institute, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.
Alexander KnuthHematology and Oncology Department, National Center for Cancer Care & Research, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.
Peter V CoveneyDepartment of Chemistry, Centre for Computational Science, University College London, London, WC1H 0AJ, UK. p.v.coveney@ucl.ac.uk.
Carnegie Mellon University Qatar · QANational Center for Cancer Care and Research · QAUniversity College London · GBHamad Medical Corporation · QA

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/L016311/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The advent of personalised medicine promises a deeper understanding of mechanisms and therefore therapies. However, the connection between genomic sequences and clinical treatments is often unclear. We studied 50 breast cancer patients belonging to a population-cohort in the state of Qatar. From Sanger sequencing, we identified several new deleterious mutations in the estrogen receptor 1 gene (ESR1). The effect of these mutations on drug treatment in the protein target encoded by ESR1, namely the estrogen receptor, was achieved via rapid and accurate protein-ligand binding affinity interaction studies which were performed for the selected drugs and the natural ligand estrogen. Four nonsynonymous mutations in the ligand-binding domain were subjected to molecular dynamics simulation using absolute and relative binding free energy methods, leading to the ranking of the efficacy of six selected drugs for patients with the mutations. Our study shows that a personalised clinical decision system can be created by integrating an individual patient's genomic data at the molecular level within a computational pipeline which ranks the efficacy of binding of particular drugs to variant proteins.

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Breast NeoplasmsMutationPrecision MedicineAntineoplastic Agents, HormonalEstrogen Receptor alphaFemaleHumansNeoplasm ProteinsAntineoplastic Agents, HormonalESR1 protein, humanEstrogen Receptor alphaNeoplasm Proteins

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PMID34188094
PMCPMC8241852
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