申请人:Zon I. Leonard
公开号:US20050155087A1
公开(公告)日:2005-07-14
The present invention is directed to a novel, target-blind approach to drug discovery. The concept is to model human phenotypes in a teleost, such as a zebrafish, and then screen compounds, e.g., small molecules, for their ability to alter the phenotype. Because the screen is performed with a whole vertebrate organism and uses a phenotype as the output, the need to first identify target genes is eliminated. This approach is powerful because a single screen can theoretically detect drugs affecting any target relevant to the phenotype being observed, even if those targets are not yet characterized.
本发明涉及一种新颖的、无靶点的药物发现方法。其概念是在鱼类(如斑马鱼)中建模人类表型,然后筛选化合物(如小分子)以评估其改变表型的能力。由于筛选是通过整个脊椎动物进行,并以表型作为输出,因此无需首先识别靶基因。这种方法非常强大,因为一个筛选可以理论上检测影响观察到的表型相关的任何靶标的药物,即使这些靶标尚未被表征。