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NATURE CHEMICAL BIOLOGY
Volume 2, Issue 2, Pages 103-109Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nchembio762
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- NHGRI NIH HHS [R01-HG002923] Funding Source: Medline
- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM38627] Funding Source: Medline
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Identification of the cellular targets of small-molecule hits in phenotypic screens is a central challenge in the development of small molecules as biological tools and potential therapeutics. To facilitate the process of small-molecule target identification, we developed a global, microarray-based method for monitoring the growth of pools of yeast strains, each overexpressing a different protein, in the presence of small molecules. Specifically, the growth of Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains harboring similar to 3,900 different overexpression plasmids was monitored in the presence of rapamycin, which inhibits the target of rapamycin ( TOR) proteins. TOR was successfully identified as a candidate rapamycin target, and many additional gene products were implicated in the TOR signaling pathway. We also characterized the mechanism of LY-83583, a small-molecule suppressor of rapamycin-induced growth inhibition. These data enabled functional links to be drawn between groups of genes implicated in the TOR pathway, identified several candidate targets for LY-83583, and suggested a role for mitochondrial respiration in mediating rapamycin sensitivity.
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