Nature Communications (Aug 2018)

Modeling the impact of drug interactions on therapeutic selectivity

  • Zohar B. Weinstein,
  • Nurdan Kuru,
  • Szilvia Kiriakov,
  • Adam C. Palmer,
  • Ahmad S. Khalil,
  • Paul A. Clemons,
  • Muhammad H. Zaman,
  • Frederick P. Roth,
  • Murat Cokol

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05954-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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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.