Computational drug repositioning for ischemic stroke: neuroprotective drug discovery.
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Background: A comprehensive approach to drug repositioning will be required to overcome translational hurdles and identify more neuroprotective drugs. Results & methods: Gene Set Enrichment Analysis was applied to identify related pathways and enriched genes. Candidate genes were optimized using ToppGene, ToppGenet and pBRIT. From the perspective of the local structures, gene-domain-substructure-drug relationships were constructed. Using the MCODE algorithm and K-means clustering, 31 functional subnetworks were obtained, and 252 drugs with proposed neuroprotective function were identified. Using computational analysis, 72 substructures with different scores were found to correspond to neuroprotective functions. The protective effects of benidipine and barnidipine were confirmed in vitro. Conclusion: The authors' research has great potential to discover more neuroprotective drugs and obtain more information regarding mechanisms of action and functional substructures.
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1756-8927
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National Natural Science Foundation of China (61671191 and 61971166)