Detección in silico de segundos usos de medicamentos con potencial acción leishmanicida

Ochoa-Deossa, R. A. (Rodrigo Alonso) | 2014-04-30

Currently, tropical diseases are a major subject of research in biomedical sciences due to its global impact on vulnerable populations. However, these diseases are normally ignored by pharmaceutical companies due to low profi tability potential. For that reason, the search of new therapeutic treatments, that are cost-effective, is essential to fi ght against tropical parasites as Leishmania spp. In this work, a search and selection of drugs with known protein targets, which were deposited in public databases, was conducted. With these target proteins, a search for orthologs in the Leishmania proteome was carried out in order to identify drugs that could also have anti-leishmanial activity. For this purpose bioinformatics tools were implemented. In addition, in the case that Leishmania proteins have its tridimensional structure reported, docking analysis were simulated to corroborate interaction with the drug. At the end, a selection of 10 drugs was identifi ed and is currently being evaluated in in vitro test