Computational Chemoproteomics to Understand the Role of Selected Psychoactives in Treating Mental Health Indications
2018-04-18T13:57:48Z (GMT)
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<p>We have developed the Computational Analysis of Novel Drug Opportunities (CANDO) platform
to infer homology of drug behavior at a proteomic level by constructing and analyzing structural
compound-proteome interaction signatures of 3,733 compounds with 48,278 proteins in a shotgun
manner. We applied the CANDO platform to predict putative therapeutic properties of 428
psychoactive compounds that belong to phenylethylamine, tryptamine, and cannabinoid chemical
classes for treating mental health indications. Our findings indicate that these 428 psychoactives
are among the top-ranked predictions for a significant fraction of mental health indications,
demonstrating a significant preference for treating such indications over non-mental health
indications, relative to randomized controls (p-value < 10-12). Also, we analyzed the use of specific
tryptamines for the treatment of sleeping disorders, bupropion for substance abuse disorders, and
cannabinoids for epilepsy. Our innovative use of the CANDO platform may guide the
identification and development of novel therapies for mental health indications and provide an
understanding of their causal basis on a detailed mechanistic level. These predictions can be used
to provide new leads for preclinical drug development for mental health and other neurological
disorders.
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