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Title: Estudio para la reutilización de los fármacos en enfermedades asociadas a proteínas moonlighting en Homo sapiens
Author: Giménez Sáez, Olga
Tutor: Franco Serrano, Luis  
Others: Ventura, Carles  
Abstract: The development of genomics resulted in an explosion of new discorveries in the field of biology. With the development of proteomics we began to study the proteome, which is the set of proteins that are expressed from the genome. The basic difference between genomics and proteomics is that DNA genetic studies provide a static view of hereditary information, while understanding cellular processes and their association with diseases requires the dynamic study of proteins and their cellular interactions with the middle. The purpose of this work has been the concept known as Drug Repurposing: to use the same drug in different diseases associated with the same protein, from which its drugability has been analyzed. We have studied the possibility of using a drug -already used for the treatment of a disease- in a second disease associated to the same protein. But, if it had not been successful, we would have studied the possibility of using this drug in a second disease associated to an homologous protein. The reuse within the same protein among diseases involved, one in the canonical function and the other in some additional function, has been studied. From the set of moonlighting proteins we have selected those that are expressed in humans and are human drug targets with more than one associated diseases. For this purpose, it has been used R as programming language and software environment. This type of analysis aims to avoid the loss of resources involved in the development of new drugs that interact with targets that are not properly modified by the drug molecule. The study data has been extracted from various specialized repositories: UniProt, DrugBank, OMIM and MalaCards. In addition, two protein drugability prediction tools have been used. The reuse of several drugs for the treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia and Nevus-Becker syndrome has been proposed with the Actin-Beta multifunction protein as a target. In addition, a selected set of proteins has been proposed to carry out an analogous analysis to that performed on Actin. In conclusion, the multifunctional characteristic in these proteins makes them an appropriate framework for selecting successful pharmacological targets of drugs with already studied toxicity effects.
Keywords: drug repurposing
moonlighting
druggability
Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis
Issue Date: 5-Jun-2019
Publication license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/  
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