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Identification and Quantification of Deranged Metabolites in Critically Ill Patients Using NMR-Based Metabolomics
Published on: November 29, 2024
Metabolomics paves the way for improved drug target identification
Belinda B Garana1, Nicholas A Graham1,2,3
1Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Abstract:
Correctly identifying candidate drugs for protein targets is crucial for drug discovery. Despite the importance of this problem for the pharmaceutical industry, chemical screening remains a challenging task, and drug-target misidentification may contribute to failures in drug development. In their recent study, Sauer and colleagues (Holbrook-Smith et al, 2022) demonstrate proof-of-concept for a new way to identify drug-target interactions using high-throughput metabolomics, potentially paving the way towards a universal method for predicting drug-target relationships.
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