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Drug-Likeness and RNA-Targeted Small Molecules

April 1st, 2018
by Thomas Hermann
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at University of California, San Diego and Co-Director, UCSD Center for Drug Discovery Innovation

Only a minuscule fraction of the human genome is devoted to encoding proteins, yet proteins provide nearly 100% of the targets for currently marketed drugs. The few exceptions include antisense and RNAi oligonucleotides, some DNA-binding cancer therapeutics such as doxorubicin and cisplatin, and a chemically diverse group of antibiotics that interfere with bacterial protein biosynthesis […]

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