[Colloquium] 4/7 Research at TTIC: Hammad Naveed, TTIC

[Mary Marre via Colloquium]

When:     Friday, April 7th at noon



Where:    TTIC, 6045 S Kenwood Avenue, 5th Floor, Room 526



Who:       Hammad Naveed; TTIC

Title: Computational algorithms to model protein-drug interactions and 3d
structures of proteins

Abstract:
The promiscuity of drugs towards protein binding sites and vice versa
hinders our understanding of the metabolism of healthy and diseased states.
The identification of all protein targets is therefore important to
understand a drug’s (side) effects, to reuse and to combine existing drugs.
Current FDA approved kinase inhibitors have significant side-effects, many
of which might be due to the off-targets of these drugs. I will present a
novel computational approach for large-scale discovery of new targets for
existing drugs. For a given drug, I construct the 3D signature of drug
binding sites that captures its promiscuous structural features. I am able
to predict the interaction of six FDA approved kinase inhibitors with its
known targets with a sensitivity of 50% and specificity of 56%. 4 out of
the 5 top predicted targets for Sorafenib were shown to interact with it
using *in vitro* experiments. This method is broadly applicable for the
prediction of protein-drug interactions with several novel applications to
biological research and drug development.

I will also briefly mention my work on computational characterization and
3D structure prediction of beta-barrel membrane proteins and its
implications for nanopore design.


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Mary C. Marre
Administrative Assistant
*Toyota Technological Institute*
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