SynPharm: A Guide to PHARMACOLOGY Database Tool for Designing Drug Control into Engineered Proteins.

ABSTRACT: A major challenge in synthetic biology, particularly for mammalian systems, is the inclusion of adequate external control for the synthetic system activities. Control at the transcriptional level can be achieved by adaptation of bacterial repressor-operator systems (e.g., TetR), but altering the activity of a protein by controlling transcription is indirect and for longer half-life mRNAs, decreasing activity this way can be inconveniently slow. Where possible, direct modulation of protein activity by soluble ligands has many advantages, including rapid action. Decades of drug discovery and pharmacological research have uncovered detailed information on the interactions between large numbers of small molecules and their primary protein targets (as well as off-target secondary interactions),

SUBMITTER: Ireland SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6068591 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature