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The evolutionary rate of antibacterial drug targets

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Bioinformatics, February 2013
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Title
The evolutionary rate of antibacterial drug targets
Published in
BMC Bioinformatics, February 2013
DOI 10.1186/1471-2105-14-36
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Authors

Arkadiusz Gladki, Szymon Kaczanowski, Pawel Szczesny, Piotr Zielenkiewicz

Abstract

One of the major issues in the fight against infectious diseases is the notable increase in multiple drug resistance in pathogenic species. For that reason, newly acquired high-throughput data on virulent microbial agents attract the attention of many researchers seeking potential new drug targets. Many approaches have been used to evaluate proteins from infectious pathogens, including, but not limited to, similarity analysis, reverse docking, statistical 3D structure analysis, machine learning, topological properties of interaction networks or a combination of the aforementioned methods. From a biological perspective, most essential proteins (knockout lethal for bacteria) or highly conserved proteins (broad spectrum activity) are potential drug targets. Ribosomal proteins comprise such an example. Many of them are well-known drug targets in bacteria. It is intuitive that we should learn from nature how to design good drugs. Firstly, known antibiotics are mainly originating from natural products of microorganisms targeting other microorganisms. Secondly, paleontological data suggests that antibiotics have been used by microorganisms for million years. Thus, we have hypothesized that good drug targets are evolutionary constrained and are subject of evolutionary selection. This means that mutations in such proteins are deleterious and removed by selection, which makes them less susceptible to random development of resistance. Analysis of the speed of evolution seems to be good approach to test this hypothesis.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Germany 2 3%
Belgium 2 3%
Netherlands 1 1%
United Kingdom 1 1%
Poland 1 1%
Unknown 61 90%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 19%
Researcher 10 15%
Student > Bachelor 10 15%
Student > Master 10 15%
Student > Postgraduate 5 7%
Other 12 18%
Unknown 8 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 26 38%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 10 15%
Medicine and Dentistry 6 9%
Computer Science 3 4%
Immunology and Microbiology 2 3%
Other 10 15%
Unknown 11 16%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 January 2024.
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