| Literature DB >> 31082225 |
Junting Zhou1,2, Xueyang Jiang1,2, Siyu He1, Hongli Jiang1,2, Feng Feng2,3, Wenyuan Liu4, Wei Qu2, Haopeng Sun1.
Abstract
Due to the complexity of multifactorial diseases, single-target drugs do not always exhibit satisfactory efficacy. Recently, increasing evidence indicates that simultaneous modulation of multiple targets may improve both therapeutic safety and efficacy, compared with single-target drugs. However, few multitarget drugs are on market or in clinical trials, despite the best efforts of medicinal chemists. This article discusses the systematic establishment of target combination, lead generation, and optimization of multitarget-directed ligands (MTDLs). Moreover, we analyze some MTDLs research cases for several complex diseases in recent years and the physicochemical properties of 117 clinical multitarget drugs, with the aim to reveal the trends and insights of the potential use of MTDLs.Mesh:
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Year: 2019 PMID: 31082225 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.9b00017
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Med Chem ISSN: 0022-2623 Impact factor: 7.446