Computational Deorphaning of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Targets

Tuberculosis (TB) continues to be a major health hazard worldwide due to the resurgence of drug discovery strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) and co-infection. For decades drug discovery has concentrated on identifying ligands for ~10 Mtb targets, hence most of the identified essential prote...

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Main Authors: Bishi, Lorraine Yamurai, Vedithi, Sundeep Chaitanya, Blundell, Tom L., Mugumbate, Grace Chitima
Format: Book chapter
Language:English
Published: IntechOpen 2022
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11408/4894
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author Bishi, Lorraine Yamurai
Vedithi, Sundeep Chaitanya
Blundell, Tom L.
Mugumbate, Grace Chitima
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description Tuberculosis (TB) continues to be a major health hazard worldwide due to the resurgence of drug discovery strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) and co-infection. For decades drug discovery has concentrated on identifying ligands for ~10 Mtb targets, hence most of the identified essential proteins are not utilised in TB chemotherapy. Here computational techniques were used to identify ligands for the orphan Mtb proteins. These range from ligand-based and structure-based virtual screening modelling the proteome of the bacterium. Identification of ligands for most of the Mtb proteins will provide novel TB drugs and targets and hence address drug resistance, toxicity and the duration of TB treatment.
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spelling ir-11408-48942022-06-28T07:41:28Z Computational Deorphaning of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Targets Bishi, Lorraine Yamurai Vedithi, Sundeep Chaitanya Blundell, Tom L. Mugumbate, Grace Chitima Mycobacterium tuberculosis target deorphaning target deconvolution proteome modelling virtual screening Tuberculosis (TB) continues to be a major health hazard worldwide due to the resurgence of drug discovery strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) and co-infection. For decades drug discovery has concentrated on identifying ligands for ~10 Mtb targets, hence most of the identified essential proteins are not utilised in TB chemotherapy. Here computational techniques were used to identify ligands for the orphan Mtb proteins. These range from ligand-based and structure-based virtual screening modelling the proteome of the bacterium. Identification of ligands for most of the Mtb proteins will provide novel TB drugs and targets and hence address drug resistance, toxicity and the duration of TB treatment. 2022-06-28T07:41:28Z 2022-06-28T07:41:28Z 2019 Book chapter 978-1-78923-976-8 DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.82374 http://hdl.handle.net/11408/4894 en Drug Discovery and Development - New Advances;Chapter 4. open IntechOpen
spellingShingle Mycobacterium tuberculosis
target deorphaning
target deconvolution
proteome modelling
virtual screening
Bishi, Lorraine Yamurai
Vedithi, Sundeep Chaitanya
Blundell, Tom L.
Mugumbate, Grace Chitima
Computational Deorphaning of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Targets
title Computational Deorphaning of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Targets
title_full Computational Deorphaning of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Targets
title_fullStr Computational Deorphaning of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Targets
title_full_unstemmed Computational Deorphaning of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Targets
title_short Computational Deorphaning of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Targets
title_sort computational deorphaning of mycobacterium tuberculosis targets
topic Mycobacterium tuberculosis
target deorphaning
target deconvolution
proteome modelling
virtual screening
url http://hdl.handle.net/11408/4894
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