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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
Volume 23, Issue 14, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms23147672
Keywords
microscale thermophoresis; protein-protein interactions; biophysical methods; protein functions; protein antibodies; immune checkpoint; small molecules
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This review highlights the crucial roles of protein-protein interactions (PPIs) in life processes and their involvement in various human diseases. It introduces Microscale Thermophoresis (MST) as a rapid, robust, and efficient alternative method for detecting therapeutically pertinent proteins. The review summarizes selected case studies and discusses the benefits and limitations of MST in studying PPIs and identifying regulators.
The review highlights how protein-protein interactions (PPIs) have determining roles in most life processes and how interactions between protein partners are involved in various human diseases. The study of PPIs and binding interactions as well as their understanding, quantification and pharmacological regulation are crucial for therapeutic purposes. Diverse computational and analytical methods, combined with high-throughput screening (HTS), have been extensively used to characterize multiple types of PPIs, but these procedures are generally laborious, long and expensive. Rapid, robust and efficient alternative methods are proposed, including the use of Microscale Thermophoresis (MST), which has emerged as the technology of choice in drug discovery programs in recent years. This review summarizes selected case studies pertaining to the use of MST to detect therapeutically pertinent proteins and highlights the biological importance of binding interactions, implicated in various human diseases. The benefits and limitations of MST to study PPIs and to identify regulators are discussed.
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