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Structural Similarities between Some Common Fluorophores Used in Biology, Marketed Drugs, Endogenous Metabolites, and Natural Products by OâHagan, Steve; Kell, Douglas B. is a Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology article available to read on EtoBox.
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It is known that at least some fluorophores can act as ‘surrogate’ substrates for solute carriers (SLCs) involved in pharmaceutical drug uptake, and this promiscuity is taken to reflect at least a certain structural similarity. As part of a comprehensive study seeking the ‘natural’ substrates of ‘orphan’ transporters that also serve to take up pharmaceutical drugs into cells, we have noted that many drugs bear structural similarities to natural products. A cursory inspection of common fluorophores indicates that they too are surprisingly ‘drug-like’, and they also enter at least some cells. Some are also known to be substrates of efflux transporters. Consequently, we sought to assess the structural similarity of common fluorophores to marketed drugs, endogenous mammalian metabolites, and natural products. We used a set of some 150 fluorophores along with standard fingerprinting methods and the Tanimoto similarity metric. Results: The great majority of fluorophores tested exhibited significant similarity (Tanimoto similarity > 0.75) to at least one drug, as judged via descriptor properties (especially their aromaticity, for identifiable reasons that we explain), by molecular fingerp
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- Author
- OâHagan, Steve; Kell, Douglas B.
- Publisher
- MDPI Publishing; MDPI AG; Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI); Basel: MDPI, 2003- (ISSN 1660-3397)
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (Life Sciences)