Drug ReposER: a web server for predicting similar amino acid arrangements to known drug binding interfaces for potential drug repositioning

Nur Syatila Ab Ghani, E. Ramlan, Mohd Firdaus-Raih

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Abstract

A common drug repositioning strategy is the re-application of an existing drug to address alternative targets. A crucial aspect to enable such repurposing is that the drug's binding site on the original target is similar to that on the alternative target. Based on the assumption that proteins with similar binding sites may bind to similar drugs, the 3D substructure similarity data can be used to identify similar sites in other proteins that are not known targets. The Drug ReposER (DRug REPOSitioning Exploration Resource) web server is designed to identify potential targets for drug repurposing based on sub-structural similarity to the binding interfaces of known drug binding sites. The application has pre-computed amino acid arrangements from protein structures in the Protein Data Bank that are similar to the 3D arrangements of known drug binding sites thus allowing users to explore them as alternative targets. Users can annotate new structures for sites that are similarly arranged to the residues found in known drug binding interfaces. The search results are presented as mappings of matched sidechain superpositions. The results of the searches can be visualized using an integrated NGL viewer. The Drug ReposER server has no access restrictions and is available at http://mfrlab.org/drugreposer/.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)W350-W356
Number of pages7
JournalNucleic Acids Research
Volume47
Issue numberW1
Early online date20 May 2019
DOIs
Publication statusPublished online - 20 May 2019

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