Gibbs Energy and Gene Expression Combined as a New Technique for Selecting Drug Targets for Inhibiting Specific Protein–Protein Interactions

International Journal of Molecular Sciences(2023)

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One of the most important aspects of successful cancer therapy is the identification of a target protein for inhibition interaction. Conventionally, this consists of screening a panel of genes to assess which is mutated and then developing a small molecule to inhibit the interaction of two proteins or to simply inhibit a specific protein from all interactions. In previous work, we have proposed computational methods that analyze protein–protein networks using both topological approaches and thermodynamic quantification provided by Gibbs free energy. In order to make these approaches both easier to implement and free of arbitrary topological filtration criteria, in the present paper, we propose a modification of the topological–thermodynamic analysis, which focuses on the selection of the most thermodynamically stable proteins and their subnetwork interaction partners with the highest expression levels. We illustrate the implementation of the new approach with two specific cases, glioblastoma (glioma brain tumors) and chronic lymphatic leukoma (CLL), based on the publicly available patient-derived datasets. We also discuss how this can be used in clinical practice in connection with the availability of approved and investigational drugs.
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selecting drug targets,protein–protein interactions,specific protein–protein,gene expression
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