A drug repurposing approach for individualized cancer therapy based on transcriptome sequencing and virtual drug screening.
Comput Biol Med
; 157: 106781, 2023 05.
Article
en En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-36931205
RNA-sequencing has been proposed as a valuable technique to develop individualized therapy concepts for cancer patients based on their tumor-specific mutational profiles. Here, we aimed to identify drugs and inhibitors in an individualized therapy-based drug repurposing approach focusing on missense mutations for 35 biopsies of cancer patients. The missense mutations belonged to 9 categories (ABC transporter, apoptosis, angiogenesis, cell cycle, DNA damage, kinase, protease, transcription factor, tumor suppressor). The highest percentages of missense mutations were observed in transcription factor genes. The mutational profiles of all 35 tumors were subjected to hierarchical heatmap clustering. All 7 leukemia biopsies clustered together and were separated from solid tumors. Based on these individual mutation profiles, two strategies for the identification of possible drug candidates were applied: Firstly, virtual screening of FDA-approved drugs based on the protein structures carrying particular missense mutations. Secondly, we mined the Drug Gene Interaction (DGI) database (https://www.dgidb.org/) to identify approved or experimental inhibitors for missense mutated proteins in our dataset of 35 tumors. In conclusion, our approach based on virtual drug screening of FDA-approved drugs and DGI-based inhibitor selection may provide new, individual treatment options for patients with otherwise refractory tumors that do not respond anymore to standard chemotherapy.
Palabras clave
Texto completo:
1
Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Transcriptoma
/
Neoplasias
Tipo de estudio:
Diagnostic_studies
/
Prognostic_studies
/
Screening_studies
Límite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Comput Biol Med
Año:
2023
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Alemania
Pais de publicación:
Estados Unidos