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2000
Volume 11, Issue 3
  • ISSN: 1568-0266
  • E-ISSN: 1873-4294

Abstract

Protein-protein interactions are involved in most of the essential processes that occur in living organisms from cell motility to DNA replication, which makes them interesting targets for drug discovery. However, due to the lack of deep pockets, and the large contact surfaces involved in these interactions, they are considered challenging targets and have been often times dismissed as “undruggable”. Nonetheless, significant efforts in pharmaceutical and academic laboratories have been devoted to finding ways to exploit protein-protein interactions as drug targets. This article provides an overview of the principles underlying the main general strategies for discovering small-molecule modulators of protein-protein interactions, namely: high-throughput screening, fragment-based drug discovery, peptide-based drug discovery, protein secondary structure mimetics, and computer-aided drug discovery. In addition, examples of successful discovery of modulators of protein-protein interactions are discussed for each of those strategies.

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