Title
Prediction Of Drug-Target Interactions And Drug Repositioning Via Network-Based Inference
Abstract
Drug-target interaction (DTI) is the basis of drug discovery and design. It is time consuming and costly to determine DTI experimentally. Hence, it is necessary to develop computational methods for the prediction of potential DTI. Based on complex network theory, three supervised inference methods were developed here to predict DTI and used for drug repositioning, namely drug-based similarity inference (DBSI), target-based similarity inference (TBSI) and network-based inference (NBI). Among them, NBI performed best on four benchmark data sets. Then a drug-target network was created with NBI based on 12,483 FDA-approved and experimental drug-target binary links, and some new DTIs were further predicted. In vitro assays confirmed that five old drugs, namely montelukast, diclofenac, simvastatin, ketoconazole, and itraconazole, showed polypharmacological features on estrogen receptors or dipeptidyl peptidase-IV with half maximal inhibitory or effective concentration ranged from 0.2 to 10 mu M. Moreover, simvastatin and ketoconazole showed potent antiproliferative activities on human MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cell line in MTT assays. The results indicated that these methods could be powerful tools in prediction of DTIs and drug repositioning.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002503
PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
Keywords
Field
DocType
proteins,binding sites,drug discovery,protein binding,drug design,drug targeting,estrogen receptor,complex network
Drug discovery,Drug repositioning,Biology,In vitro toxicology,Inference,Drug target,Ketoconazole,Bioinformatics,Drug-disease,Drug
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
8
5
1553-734X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
113
3.32
13
Authors
9
Search Limit
100113
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Feixiong Cheng129921.70
Chuang Liu221914.21
Jing Jiang31133.32
Weiqiang Lu41154.39
Weihua Li525614.55
Gui-Xia Liu625020.24
Wei-Xing Zhou720615.05
Jin Huang81133.66
Yun Tang936133.35