Repositioned Drugs for Chagas Disease Unveiled via Structure-Based Drug Repositioning

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Beitragende

  • Melissa F Adasme - , Biotechnologisches Zentrum (BIOTEC) (Autor:in)
  • Sarah Naomi Bolz - , Biotechnologisches Zentrum (BIOTEC), Professur für Bioinformatik (Autor:in)
  • Lauren Adelmann - , Biotechnologisches Zentrum (BIOTEC) (Autor:in)
  • Sebastian Salentin - , Biotechnologisches Zentrum (BIOTEC) (Autor:in)
  • V Joachim Haupt - , Biotechnologisches Zentrum (BIOTEC) (Autor:in)
  • Adriana Moreno-Rodríguez - , Universidad Autonoma Benito Juarez de Oaxaca (Autor:in)
  • Benjamín Nogueda-Torres - , Instituto Politécnico Nacional (Autor:in)
  • Verónica Castillo-Campos - , Instituto Politécnico Nacional (Autor:in)
  • Lilián Yepez-Mulia - , Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (Autor:in)
  • José A De Fuentes-Vicente - , Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas (Autor:in)
  • Gildardo Rivera - , Instituto Politécnico Nacional (Autor:in)
  • Michael Schroeder - , Biotechnologisches Zentrum (BIOTEC), Professur für Bioinformatik (Autor:in)

Abstract

Chagas disease, caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, affects millions of people in South America. The current treatments are limited, have severe side effects, and are only partially effective. Drug repositioning, defined as finding new indications for already approved drugs, has the potential to provide new therapeutic options for Chagas. In this work, we conducted a structure-based drug repositioning approach with over 130,000 3D protein structures to identify drugs that bind therapeutic Chagas targets and thus represent potential new Chagas treatments. The screening yielded over 500 molecules as hits, out of which 38 drugs were prioritized following a rigorous filtering process. About half of the latter were already known to have trypanocidal activity, while the others are novel to Chagas disease. Three of the new drug candidates-ciprofloxacin, naproxen, and folic acid-showed a growth inhibitory activity in the micromolar range when tested ex vivo on T. cruzi trypomastigotes, validating the prediction. We show that our drug repositioning approach is able to pinpoint relevant drug candidates at a fraction of the time and cost of a conventional screening. Furthermore, our results demonstrate the power and potential of structure-based drug repositioning in the context of neglected tropical diseases where the pharmaceutical industry has little financial interest in the development of new drugs.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummer8809
FachzeitschriftInternational journal of molecular sciences
Jahrgang21
Ausgabenummer22
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 20 Nov. 2020
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Externe IDs

PubMedCentral PMC7699892
Scopus 85096318680
ORCID /0000-0003-2848-6949/work/141543359

Schlagworte

Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung

Schlagwörter

  • Animals, Cell Line, Chagas Disease/drug therapy, Ciprofloxacin/chemistry, Drug Repositioning, Folic Acid/chemistry, Mice, Naproxen/chemistry, Structure-Activity Relationship, Trypanocidal Agents/chemistry, Trypanosoma cruzi/drug effects