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Dissecting celastrol with machine learning to unveil dark pharmacology

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Rodrigues, Tiago 
de Almeida, Bernardo P 
Barbosa-Morais, Nuno L 
Bernardes, Gonçalo JL 

Abstract

Coallescing bespoke machine learning and bioinformatics analyses with cell-based assays we unveil pharmacology of celastrol. Celastrol is a direct modulator of the progesterone and cannabinoid receptors, and its effects correlate with the antiproliferative activity. We demonstrate how in silico methods may drive systems biology studies for natural products.

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Keywords

Cell Proliferation, Computational Biology, Humans, Machine Learning, Pentacyclic Triterpenes, Progesterone, Receptors, Cannabinoid, Systems Biology, Triterpenes

Journal Title

Chemical Communications

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Journal ISSN

1359-7345
1364-548X

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Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

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All rights reserved
Sponsorship
European Research Council (676832)
Royal Society (URF\R\180019)
European Commission Horizon 2020 (H2020) Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation (807281)
We thank the Royal Society (URF\R\180019), H2020 (ERC StG, GA no. 676832, 743640 ad 807281) and FCT Portugal (IF/00624/2015 and 02/SAICT/2017, Grant 28333) for funding.