Modeling the impact of drug interactions on therapeutic selectivity

While drugs can interact in both target and off-target cell types, more favorable interaction in the target cell may nevertheless allow for a therapeutic window. Here, the authors show, using two yeast species as a model, that differential drug interactions indeed adjust the selective window.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Zohar B. Weinstein, Nurdan Kuru, Szilvia Kiriakov, Adam C. Palmer, Ahmad S. Khalil, Paul A. Clemons, Muhammad H. Zaman, Frederick P. Roth, Murat Cokol
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-08-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05954-3