Pharmacophore modeling for antitargets.

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Department of Medicinal Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City, 41 Dinh Tien Hoang St, Dist 1, 70000 Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.

Published: January 2014


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The pharmacophore modeling in modern drug research has been applied for both bioactivity profiling and early stage of risk assessment of potential side effects and toxicity due to interactions of drug candidates with antitargets namely P-glycoprotein, hERG, cytochrome P450 and pregnane X-receptor. In this article, an existing state concerning with pharmacophore modeling applied for promiscuous proteins in drug research were updated and reviewed. In an attempt to create new safe medicines faster, the partial overlap of substrate properties of hERG, P-glycoprotein, pregnane X-receptor and cytochrome P450 has to be considered and drug safety has to be dealt on a system level on the off-targets.

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