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SCIENCE SIGNALING
卷 6, 期 297, 页码 -出版社
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/scisignal.2004657
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资金
- Komen for the Cure Postdoctoral Fellowship
- American Diabetes Association
- Cancer Intervention and Prevention Discovery Program [RP101496]
- Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia
- Welch Foundation [I-1414, I-1689]
- NIH [CA129451, CA071443, CA157774, CA90400, CA149833, NIH P41 GM103504, CA152301]
- Chilton/Bell Foundation
- [T32 CA124334]
A challenge for biomedical research is the development of pharmaceuticals that appropriately target disease mechanisms. Natural products can be a rich source of bioactive chemicals for medicinal applications but can act through unknown mechanisms and can be difficult to produce or obtain. To address these challenges, we developed a new marine-derived, renewable natural products resource and a method for linking bioactive derivatives of this library to the proteins and biological processes that they target in cells. We used cell-based screening and computational analysis to match gene expression signatures produced by natural products to those produced by small interfering RNA (siRNA) and synthetic microRNA (miRNA) libraries. With this strategy, we matched proteins and miRNAs with diverse biological processes and also identified putative protein targets and mechanisms of action for several previously undescribed marine-derived natural products. We confirmed mechanistic relationships for selected siRNAs, miRNAs, and compounds with functional roles in autophagy, chemotaxis mediated by discoidin domain receptor 2, or activation of the kinase AKT. Thus, this approach may be an effective method for screening new drugs while simultaneously identifying their targets.
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