It is commonly assumed that drug targets are expressed in tissues relevant to their indicated diseases, even under normal conditions. While multiple anecdotal cases support this hypothesis, a comprehensive study has not been performed to verify it. We conducted a systematic analysis to assess gene and protein expression for all targets of marketed and phase III drugs across a diverse collection...

The design of new assay formats that allow fast parallel screening of enzyme function plays a pivotal role in the discovery of new products and reagents ranging from industrial processes to diagnosticsJ'] Furthermore, drug discovery and protein engineering are increasingly performed by combinatorial approaches, in which progress is tightly linked to the development of suitable screening systems...

MOTIVATION Methods for computational drug target identification use information from diverse information sources to predict or prioritize drug targets for known drugs. One set of resources that has been relatively neglected for drug repurposing is animal model phenotype. RESULTS We investigate the use of mouse model phenotypes for drug target identification. To achieve this goal, we first int...

Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis Virus (IPNV) is a member of the family Birnaviridae that has been linked to high mortalities in salmonids. Bacterial based systems as live vectors for the delivery of heterologous antigens offer a number of advantages as vaccination strategies. VP2 is a structural viral protein of IPNV with immunogenicity effects. In this study IPNV was isolated from diseased fry ...

The explosive development of protein and peptide drugs has ushered in a great need for effective delivery systems for such drugs. Two decades of studies of protein delivery from polymeric systems has revealed the great potential of gels that respond to environmental stimuli, such as temperature, pH, etc. Protein and peptide release can be engineered to occur in a pulsatile mode. The mechanism o...

Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis Virus (IPNV) is a member of the family Birnaviridae that has been linked to high mortalities in salmonids. Bacterial based systems as live vectors for the delivery of heterologous antigens offer a number of advantages as vaccination strategies. VP2 is a structural viral protein of IPNV with immunogenicity effects. In this study IPNV was isolated from diseased fry ...

Plant polyphenol compounds have been considered nutritionally important recently. However, achieving successful delivery of flavonoids and phytoestrogens via the oral route is particularly difficult, due to the formiable enzymatic and transport barriers in the gastrointestinal tract. Polymer-based delivery systems that trap molecules of interest within networks have been develpoed extensively f...

Native subtypes of K + and other ion channels are often hetero-oligomeric combinations of protein subunits. Drugs that selectively target relevant in vivo heteromers are valuable research tools and potential therapeutics. To recreate heteromeric channels as authentic drug targets , multiple subunits have been covalently tethered by concatemerizing their coding sequences. This perspective examin...

Despite the efforts of pharmaceutical companies to develop specific kinase modulators, few drugs targeting kinases have been completely successful in the clinic. This is primarily due to the conserved nature of kinases, especially in the catalytic domains. Consequently, many currently available inhibitors lack sufficient selectivity for effective clinical application. Kinases phosphorylate thei...