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Current Pharmaceutical Design

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ISSN (Print): 1381-6128
ISSN (Online): 1873-4286

Designing Multiple Ligands – Medicinal Chemistry Strategies and Challenges

Author(s): Richard Morphy and Zoran Rankovic

Volume 15, Issue 6, 2009

Page: [587 - 600] Pages: 14

DOI: 10.2174/138161209787315594

Price: $65

Abstract

It has been widely recognised over the recent years that parallel modulation of multiple biological targets can be beneficial for treatment of diseases with complex etiologies such as cancer asthma, and psychiatric disease. In this article, current strategies for the generation of ligands with a specific multi-target profile (designed multiple ligands or DMLs) are described and a number of illustrative example are given. Designing multiple ligands is frequently a challenging endeavour for medicinal chemists, with the need to appropriately balance affinity for 2 or more targets whilst obtaining physicochemical and pharmacokinetic properties that are consistent with the administration of an oral drug. Given that the properties of DMLs are influenced to a large extent by the proteomic superfamily to which the targets belong and the lead generation strategy that is pursued, an early assessment of the feasibility of any given DML project is essential.

Keywords: Designed multiple ligands, polypharmacology, framework combination, fused and merged DMLs, hit and lead generation


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