Abstract
Autophagy is an evolutionally conserved process in cells for cleaning abnormal proteins and organelles in a lysosome dependent manner. Growing studies have shown that defects or induced autophagy contributes to many diseases including aging, neurodegeneration, pathogen infection, and cancer. However, the precise involvement of autophagy in health and disease remains controversial because the theories are built on limited assays and chemical modulators, indicating that the role of autophagy in diseases may require further verification. Many food and drug administration (FDA) approved drugs modulate autophagy signaling, suggesting that modulation of autophagy with pharmacological agonists or antagonists provides a potential therapy for autophagy-related diseases. This suggestion raises an attractive issue on drug discovery for exploring chemical modulators of autophagy. High throughput screening (HTS) is becoming a powerful tool for drug discovery that may accelerate screening specific autophagy modulators to clarify the role of autophagy in diseases. Herein, this review lays out current autophagy assays to specifically measure autophagy components such as LC3 (mammalian homologue of yeast Atg8) and Atg4. These assays are feasible or successful for HTS with certain chemical libraries, which might be informative for this intensively growing field as research tools and hopefully developing new drugs for autophagy-related diseases.
Keywords: Autophagy, drug discovery, high throughput screening, chemical modulators, pharmacological agonists, assay development, Atg4, LC3, mammalian homologue, antagonists
Combinatorial Chemistry & High Throughput Screening
Title:High Throughput Screening for Drug Discovery of Autophagy Modulators
Volume: 15 Issue: 9
Author(s): Chih-Wen Shu, Pei-Feng Liu and Chun-Ming Huang
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Keywords: Autophagy, drug discovery, high throughput screening, chemical modulators, pharmacological agonists, assay development, Atg4, LC3, mammalian homologue, antagonists
Abstract: Autophagy is an evolutionally conserved process in cells for cleaning abnormal proteins and organelles in a lysosome dependent manner. Growing studies have shown that defects or induced autophagy contributes to many diseases including aging, neurodegeneration, pathogen infection, and cancer. However, the precise involvement of autophagy in health and disease remains controversial because the theories are built on limited assays and chemical modulators, indicating that the role of autophagy in diseases may require further verification. Many food and drug administration (FDA) approved drugs modulate autophagy signaling, suggesting that modulation of autophagy with pharmacological agonists or antagonists provides a potential therapy for autophagy-related diseases. This suggestion raises an attractive issue on drug discovery for exploring chemical modulators of autophagy. High throughput screening (HTS) is becoming a powerful tool for drug discovery that may accelerate screening specific autophagy modulators to clarify the role of autophagy in diseases. Herein, this review lays out current autophagy assays to specifically measure autophagy components such as LC3 (mammalian homologue of yeast Atg8) and Atg4. These assays are feasible or successful for HTS with certain chemical libraries, which might be informative for this intensively growing field as research tools and hopefully developing new drugs for autophagy-related diseases.
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Shu Chih-Wen, Liu Pei-Feng and Huang Chun-Ming, High Throughput Screening for Drug Discovery of Autophagy Modulators, Combinatorial Chemistry & High Throughput Screening 2012; 15 (9) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/138620712803519734
DOI https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/138620712803519734 |
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