Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Conformational molecular Targeting wanted.

At molecular level, nature uses a simple language sometime to achieve big things.  Attraction of electron by proton, the unstable nature of a celibate electron looking to couple with another electron, allosteric change of shape of molecules that match an active site of another molecule or chemical based post-translational shape modification to expose active sites of molecules.  All these to phosphorylate, methylate or otherwise tamper with shapes of molecules to allow pathways to unfold!
The surprising success of ATRA in Promyelocytic Leukemia is an outstanding example of the success of this approach in therapeutic medicine.The activity at retinoic acid Receptor, and various shape that could potentially fit into the Active sites at AP-1, occupying sites at NFAT, or Leucine Zipper or even just c-JUn and c-fos all could have potentially profound therapeutic effects in those disease processes that hinges on the NFAT-AP1 interaction.  Particularly the leukemia, and cancer such as Melanoma where the CDK4 gene is important.  Yes you can create an Antibody, but remember a simple matching form can do the trick by a simple lovely lodging of molecule into an activity site, paralyzing it for use!

We need more of this type of intervention...

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