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Drug Repurposing and Computational Drug Discovery: Strategies and Advances
quite rare. When an off phenotype is seen, it may imply that the medicine should be utilized more widely. A fortuitous discovery might be made because of biological tests or experimental screenings that target certain sickness models and drugs. When it comes to screening a broad range of drugs or illnesses, these approaches are more adaptable. By using compu­tational biology methodologies and bioinformatic methods, in-silico drug screening can undertake virtual screenings of massive drug and chemical databases. The validation steps might be examined in vitro first, and subse­quently in vivo models, after the medication has been selected. This chapter details about repurposing and computational drug discoveries in the field of diabetes.
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Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a complex metabolic syndrome characterized
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by increased blood glucose.
Prognosis of hyperglycemia is due to reduced
insulin action or insulin secretion, loss of pancreatic β-cells causes decrease
in the secretion of insulin lead to decline in its effect in type 1 diabetes (T1D) and insulin receptor sensitivity reduces which reduces utilization of glucose in adipose tissue due to impairment of signaling pathway in type 2 diabetes (T2D).2 Prevalence of diabetes reveals that more than 380 million patients suffer from it throughout the globe, which will increase to approximately 592
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million by 2035.
Moreover, T2D is the preliminary cause of this dramatic rise. Sedentary lifestyles and obesity due to an increase in urbanization contribute to the development of T2D.
Uncontrolled diabetes for a prolonged period contributes to the develop­ment of several complications associated with diabetes, such as microvas­cular complications (diabetic retinopathy, neuropathy, and nephropathy) and macrovascular complications (peripheral arterial disease, coronary artery disease, and stroke).
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Chronic hyperglycemic conditions alter the cellular functions and thereby lead to damage to the tissues due to altera­tion in the status of reactive oxygen species, advanced glycation products, and aldose reductase. These changes in marker levels have a direct toxic effect on several body tissues. Moreover, metabolic products of glucose also alter the cell signaling pathways, such as the activation of protein kinase C, which causes damage to microvascular tissues.5 These changes in microvasculature develop atherosclerosis, which causes several chronic complications.
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Management of diabetes clinically has been achieved by regulating glucose metabolism in a number of ways to achieve a low blood sugar level using several conventional drugs, which include insulin and oral hypoglycemic
agents such as sulfonylureas, bigunides, thiazolidinediones, α glucosesidase
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inhibitors, DPP4 inhibitors, and amylin analogues.
These drugs, either by monotherapy or combination therapy, control glucose levels within the normal range. The systemic safety of antidiabetic agents gained attention due to a report by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
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on concomitant cardiovascular outcomes
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Optimal use of these hypoglycemic agents causes weight gain and a
reduction in therapeutic efcacy. The most common side effect is hypogly-
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cemia.
Therapeutic efcacy of conventional drugs occurs due to reduced
permeability, solubility, and lack of target specicity and an increase in drug
metabolism.9 However, conventionally available antidiabetic drugs show a promising role in controlling blood sugar levels, but there are still some major challenges for effective glycemic control by optimizing available therapies and reducing the complications associated with chronic antidiabetic drug use. There are several complications associated with each antidiabetic agent associated with chronic use of these drugs, which are given in Table 8.1.
8.2.1 SULFONYLUREAS
Sulfonylurea agents have also been called secretagogues agents, which
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stimulate the β-cells to secrete insulin.
Hypoglycemia is a major complica­tion associated with the use of the sulfonylurea class of drugs in nephro­pathic, hepatic failure, malnourished, and elderly patients. Weight gain is another side effect commonly observed with these drugs. From the initia­tion of therapy to one year, weight gain is approximately 2 kg observed in
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patients taking sulfonylureas.
US-FDA warns the use of sulfonylureas as it enhances the risk of cardiovascular-associated death. Literature reveals that the use of the first generation of sulfonylurea tolbutamide enhances the risk of cardiovascular death more than placebo and insulin do.
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8.2.2 MEGLITINIDES
Repaglinide and nateglinide are meglitinide analogues used to treat T2D. They increase insulin secretion by antagonizing KATP channels. clinical trials reveal that the use of meglitinide is reported to enhance weight
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gain by up to 2.1 g. Meglitinides are reported to have mild hypoglycemia as a common side effect, which also shows a lack of long-term cardiovascular outcomes.
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8.2.3 BIGUANIDES
Biguanides are an insulin sensitizer, that is, metformin approved for the management of T2D. Clearance of these drugs decreases in pathological conditions including dehydration, sepsis, congestive heart failure, renal and hepatic impairment, which enhances the risk of development of lactic acidosis. Metformin improves body weight even when combined with sulfonylurea. Congestive heart failure is not commonly observed with the long-term use of metformin, and it is one of the safest antidiabetic drugs.
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8.2.4 THIAZOLIDINEDIONES
Thiazolidinediones (TZD; pioglitazone and rosiglitazone) are insulin sensitizers that act as peroxisome proliferator–activated receptor (PPAR-) agonists. They are approved for the treatment of T2D. Thiazolidinediones are known to cause fluid retention and weight gain causes edema. Literature reveals that TZD in combination with insulin enhances weight gain by up to 5 g after 2 years of drug treatment. Strong evidence reveals that TZD appears to cause health failure as a side effect, and thus most drugs in this category are banned for clinical use.
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8.2.5 α-GLUCOSIDASE INHIBITOR
α-Glucosidase inhibitors (voglibose, acarbose, and meglitinide) inhibit the enzyme α-glucose hydroxylase and α-amylase enzyme, which contribute
to the conversion of polysaccharide carbohydrates into monosaccharides. The most serious problem associated with the use of these drugs is diabetic ketoacidosis; however, this class of drug commonly metabolizes in the GI track by gastrointestinal enzymes and absorbs the least amount in the systemic circulation. Thus, the risk of weight gain and hypoglycemia was
not observed with the use of α-glucosidase inhibitors. Moreover, there was
a reduction in the risk of the development of congestive heart failure and hypertension of up to 49% observed with the use of these agents.
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8.2.6 GLUCAGON-LIKE PEPTIDE 1 (GLP-1) REGULATORS
Postprandial glucose homeostasis is regulated by GLP-1 in response to ingested nutrients. In systemic circulation, DPP-4 inhibits GLP-1 into an inactive metabolite. Thus, there are two different categories. GLP-1 receptor agonists and DPP-4 inhibitors were developed. DPP-4 inhibitors (Sitagliptin) are reported to act neutral on weight gain, and GLP-1 agonists reduce weight gain by more than 2 kg. GLP-1 receptor agonists have some role in pancreatitis, but an exact relationship has not been developed yet. It is also contraindicated in patients with thyroid cancer or a family history of it, as the GLP-1 agonist stimulates the proliferation of type C cells. DPP-4 expression has been found in T cells, suggesting that DPP-4 inhibitors may modulate T cells and have an immunomodulatory effect.
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8.2.7 SODIUM-GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER 2 INHIBITORS
Sodium-glucose transporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors modulate renal glucose handling and thereby lower the glucose level. SGLT2 inhibitors are contraindicated in patients with renal failure and hepatic insufficiency. Its consumption for more than 12 months reduces weight and fluid in the body and induces hypotension in the patient. Moreover, SGLT-2 also reported to modulate the level of lipoprotein, and thus its effect on cardiac complications needs to be studied in a detailed manner.
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Antidiabetic agents Hyperglycemia Weight Contraindication
Sulfonylurea drugs Ye s Increases – Metformin/bigunides No Mildly
decreases
TZDs No Increases Heart failure and
α-Glucosidase
inhibitors GLP-1 receptor
agonist DPP-4 inhibitors No Neutral Pancreatitis history Amylin analog Ye s Initially
SGLT-2 inhibitors No Neutral Renal failure
No Decreases Renal failure, liver cirrhosis,
No Decreases Pancreatitis, renal failure,
decreases
Metabolic acidosis, hepatic failure, and renal failure
hepatocellular diseases
and intestinal disease
endocrine neoplasia
Gastroparesis
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Diabetes-associated morbidity and mortality occurs due to cardiovascular disease. Previously, there was no specific need for novel therapy for the management of T2D because existing therapies did not have any issues
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with cardiovascular safety.
However, a meta-analysis published in 2007 reveals the greater chances of stroke and myocardial infraction in patients treated with rosiglitazone than control.
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Thereafter, this class of drug was completely withdrawn from the market for clinical use. The FDA changed the drug safety guidance related to therapies for T2D so that there is no cardiovascular risk associated with new drugs for the management of it. These regulations state that relative risk should be <1.8 and participants included in the study with diabetes (advanced age, renal impairment, and chronic diabetic) should be included in the study. The study also includes at least two years of safety data; stroke, myocardial infarction, and cardio­vascular mortality should be included in the study. Meta-analysis will be performed for the unacceptable cardiovascular risk from the data of phase II and III clinical trials.
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Presently, drugs available under development for T2D need to follow these FDA guidelines, which require patients with cardiovascular disorders to enroll in trials, and it requires longer and larger trials. This all contributes to greater expense and delays the time for the drug to come to the market.
T2D is a multifactorial disease in which several pathogenic pathways are
involved in dysregulation of glycemic control. Oxidative stress, systemic and
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tissue-specic inammation, and altered lipid metabolism
are all factors to consider. These pathogeneses are involved in the development of other diseases too, and drugs used for the management of those diseases that act on a given pathogenic pathway could be promising therapies for treating T2D.
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DRUG DISCOVERY
Pharmaceutical research and industry have been paying close attention to the possibility of repurposing existing pharmaceuticals and producing novel drugs, as well as the efficiency of repurposing over conventional de novo drug development methods. Repositioning, reprofiling, redirection, retaking, and therapeutic switching are all examples of drug repurposing (Fig. 8.1).
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Traditional studies on repurposing usually focused on identication
of novel indications for drugs based on similarity of its mode of action. Conventional drugs target on new targets based on some characteristics like drug–disease relationship, drug side effects, and its chemical structures.
In general, there are two basic drug repositioning principles. First, because of the interdependence of various disorders, medications developed for one disease may also be effective for other diseases. Second, because medications are inherently confusing, they can be linked to a variety of targets and pathways.
In the next several decades, the number of individuals suffering from diabetes will climb substantially. As a chronic metabolic disease, T2D is characterized by insulin resistance and elevated blood sugar in most sufferers. Several underlying factors contribute to poor glycemic control in T2D, which is a complex condition. There has been a reconsideration of T2D therapy options that target comparable pathophysiological systems because of their adaptability.
When it comes to drug research, the creation of new medications and
agents demands a signicant investment of time and money. Repurposing
or repositioning medicine has become more popular in the past 30 years due to a decrease in the number of FDA-approved pharmaceuticals. New drug development is a time-consuming and costly undertaking that is character-
ized by a signicant degree of uncertainty about whether a medicine will
succeed. Due to rising costs and time constraints, these gains have not been able to be translated into therapeutic improvements as quickly as planned. There are several methods to repurpose medications that have previously been approved by the FDA and/or are currently under research. It is a new
technique that offers cheaper research costs and acceptable safety proles
since much of the trial data is already available in the public domain. Because the medicine has already undergone clinical testing, the chance of failure is almost nonexistent or very low. Due to extensive testing and safety evaluations previously completed, the time required to produce a new medicine is greatly reduced. Third, the medications that are currently on the market need relatively little investment. At this time, validation of targets and studies for on- and off-target drug repositioning have become natural allies in chemical biology. Repurposing drugs requires three primary
phases before they can be tested in phase II clinical trials: Identication of
the proper drug, rigorous study of the drug’s action in clinical models, and appraisal of its utility.
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 Different approaches for drug repurposing.
Drug Repurposing and Computational Drug Discovery: Strategies and Advances
Some of the present ways for applying drug-repurposing technology are targeted mechanism-based, pathway or network-based, signature-based, target-based, knowledge-based, and blind-based.24 The above-mentioned medication repurposing strategies were successful in both clinical and
preclinical research to nd the drug’s new role in treating DM.
8.4.1 PROTEINS/PATHWAYS TARGETED APPROACH
Diabetic mellitus (DM) is the most prevalent metabolic disorder, and insulin insufficiency, inappropriate insulin usage, or both, may cause blood glucose levels to vary. An autoimmune attack on pancreatic islet cells causes type 1 diabetes; insulin signaling issues and environmental factors are to blame for T2D. The glucose metabolism of DM patients has recently been successfully controlled by glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists and DPP-4 inhibitors, in addition to insulin, alpha-glucosidase inhibitors, thiazolidin­ediones, meglitinides, sulfonylureas, and biguanides. Incretin hormones, including glucose-dependent insulinotropic peptide (GIP), are degraded by the DPP-4 enzyme, which is inhibited by DPP-4 inhibitors. Chemokines and growth factors are also destroyed by DPP-4, suggesting that DPP-4 inhibi­tors may help regulate inflammatory conditions. Incretin hormones increase insulin secretion and glucagon release, and they also lower beta cell mortality. It is not uncommon for patients on FDA-approved DPP-4 inhibitors like sita­gliptin, vildagliptin, alogliptin, and saxgliptin to have pancreatitis, hepatitis, or renal damage. Over the course of therapy, complications such as diabetic
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retinopathy and painful diabetic nephropathy have been recorded, and they are more frequent in insulin-dependent diabetes patients.
Incretin effect regulates the blood glucose levels by enhancing secretion of insulin and controls the release of glucagon, which reduces the mortality
of β-cells too. Patients on DPP-4 inhibitors are commonly associated with
pancreatitis, hepatitis, or renal damage. Painful diabetic nephropathy and diabetic retinopathy are more frequent in insulin-dependent diabetes patient.
Diabetic nephropathy is a painful condition that may be treated with opioids, tapentadol, and lidocaine. Studies in both clinical and preclinical
settings have shown that combination treatment for DM is benecial. There
has been evidence in clinical studies that NSAIDs may reduce the cyclo­oxygenase (COX) enzymes. However, several of these therapies have the potential to cause renal failure, and hence, NSAIDs are typically avoided in the treatment of diabetic mellitus. There is evidence that arthritis medica­tions such as salsalate and ibuprofen, which are often prescribed to people
with T2D, might reduce blood glucose levels by decreasing inammatory
mediators, suggesting that NSAIDs alone may be successful in doing so. In both clinical and preclinical trials, combination treatments for diabetes have been demonstrated to be successful. Salicylate, a pain-relieving medi­cine that already existed, was acetylated to make aspirin, which is the most popular and well-known drug in the world at the time. Salicylate improves
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glycemia and lowers inammatory mediators in T2Dm.
Salicylate and the cellular senescence of IKK-b in the skeletal muscle restrict fat-induced insulin resistance, which means that fat-induced changes in insulin signaling activity could be a new class of T2D medicines.
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In a recent trial, HIV-1 and hepatitis B infections were originally treated
with the anti-inammatory drug known as nucleoside reverse transcriptase
inhibitors (NRTIs). Preliminary studies in the C57BL/6J mouse model show that it enhances insulin sensitivity and slows the evolution of T2D.28 Chen et al. found that the antidepressant medicine doxepin activates FAM3A signal transduction pathways in the hepatic and brown fatty tissue to ameliorate hyperglycemia and steatosis in diabetic mice. Doxepin may be preferentially suggested as an antidepressant in the treatment of people with diabetes who also have depression.
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Telmisartan reduced obesity-induced insulin resistance, according to Liu et al., via suppressing ER stress through AMPK activation.30 Similarly, multiple studies suggest that an existing class of drugs might be repurposed for the prevention of diabetes. Niclosamide ethanolamine (NEN) is an FDA-approved anthelmintic drug for the treat­ment of parasitic worms. A recent study by Tao et al. showed the potential
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of NEN as a therapeutic and management tool for people with T2D. Mice treated with NEN had better energy distribution and lipid metabolism.31 It
is a signicant medical disorder known as diabetic kidney disease (DKD).
There is a pressing need for new therapies to prevent or delay the progression of DKD. Many biological processes, such as cell viability and mortality, are regulated by potassium channel KCa3.1. The development and course of DKD are inuenced by mitochondrial dysfunction. Inammation, prolifera­tion, and activation of cells are all linked to mitochondrial dysfunction and KCa3.1 dysregulation. Recently, it has been shown that KCa3.1 absence improves the mitochondrial dysfunction associated with DKD by regulating
abnormal mitochondrial dynamics and rectifying decient BNIP3-mediated mitophagy, which is attributed to the modication of mitochondrial quality control. DKD may benet from pharmacological reduction of KCa3.1’s involvement in brosis, inammation, and mitochondrial dysfunction, which
might lead to a new treatment option. Because of its high level of safety, repurposing senicapoc might have a positive impact on human health.
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8.4.2 TRADITIONAL MEDICINES-BASED APPROACH
While great attention has been made on repurposing current pharmaceuti­cals to cure/manage illnesses, traditional medicines are an alternative and maybe neglected source of novel antidiabetic molecules. For hundreds of years, various pathological conditions have been treated with the use of these formulations and extracts. In the case of T2D, this prolonged history of use often provides strong empirical information for their advantages on glucoregulatory mechanisms as well as the absence of serious side effects. Furthermore, observations with an ancient herbal medicine led to the development of antidiabetic guanidine pharmaceuticals like metformin. It was discovered that guanidines in Galega officinalis, a plant that produces the chemical, might improve the symptoms of diabetes, including frequent
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urination.
Moving further with conventional medications requires identi­fying the active ingredients in these formulations. There are thousands of instances of traditional medicines being used to successfully find possible antidiabetic molecules. Berberine is a phytoconstituent that was first tested to treat viral diarrhea.
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Cortidisrhizoma and Cortex phellodendri are richer
in berberine content which possesses insulin-sensitizing and insulinotropic
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activities through the activation of AMPK.
Bitter melon (Momordica charantia) extracts have been used in traditional medicine to treat diabetes symptoms for many years, but the active ingredient has remained a mystery.
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8.4.3 SIDE EFFECTS AND ADVERSE DRUG EVENT-BASED APPROACH
Documentation on the treatment of illnesses that arise in rodents is also utilized to repurpose drugs in humans because of the general parallels in targets. Side effects are common in drug regimens for specific disorders. Drug repurposing may also be triggered by clinical findings of unexpected adverse effects reported by patients or by clinicians’ experiences of unex­pected conditions cured by drugs. Although some side effects are considered infrequent, they are nevertheless implicated in the pathophysiology of a disease. Indeed, they may reveal a severe phenotype. Many associations include explicit repurposing theories, such as hypoglycemic medicines being possible diabetes candidates. Drugs that identify porphyria as a side effect, according to drug repositioning based on the side effect, may serve as antidia-
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betics. Porphyria is a genetic disease that affects only a few people.
Patients with this hereditary condition have a lower risk of developing porphyria when they become diabetic.
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Antidiabetic medicines have been linked to an increased risk of developing porphyria. A subgroup of the population having a hereditary porphyria may conceivably be used as a “model” for assessing antidiabetic medications with porphyria as the goal. Consequently, a drug that produces porphyria in this subset with the genetic variation might be an effective therapy for diabetes in a wider population. As a result, a drug’s off-phenotype in a subpopulation may indicate that it should be used in a larger population. Lithner et al. had reported in the study of 16 patients who developed diabetes in a study of 328 Swedish porphyria patients all had their
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porphyria symptoms alleviated.
Porphyria is a known side effect of the drugs valproic acid, pyrazinamide, naproxen, and estradiol; nevertheless, diabetic doctors do not suggest them because of the risk of developing the disease.
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Valproic acid, an anticonvulsant, has been demonstrated to lower blood sugar levels in Wfs1 mutant mice in latest research.39 Pyrazinamide is an anti-TB medicine, and T2D is a well-known risk factor for tuberculosis.
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In prediabetic mice, naproxen has been demonstrated to delay or prevent the development of T2D from occurring.
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8.4.4 COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES AND TECHNIQUES (FOR ANTIDIABETIC DRUG DISCOVERY)
Traditional techniques used for drug discovery have several limitations like time consuming and costly, and thus drug repurposing based on computer technologies is an option for pharmaceutical industry.