Target Identification and Validation in Drug Discovery : Methods and Protocols - Moll, Jurgen; Colombo, Riccardo; SpringerLink (Online service) (Totowa, NJ : Humana Press : Imprint: Humana, 2013)
The Path to Oncology Drug Target Validation - an Industry Perspective -- Identification of Aptamers as Specific Binders and Modulators of Cell-Surface Receptor Activity -- The Design and Structure-functional Properties  of DNA-based Immunomodulatory Sequences -- siRNA Design Principles and Off-target Effects -- Western Blot Evaluation of siRNA Delivery by pH Responsive Peptides -- High Throughput RNAi Screening for the Identification of Novel Targets -- Integration of RNAi and Small Molecule Screens to Identify Targets for Drug Development -- CellProfiler and KNIME: Open Source Tools for High Content Screening -- PARP Inhibition as a Prototype for Synthetic Lethal Screens -- Structure-Based Target Druggability Assessment -- Validating Pharmacological Disruption of Protein-protein Interactions by Acceptor Photobleaching FRET Imaging -- Systematic Analysis of Complex Signal Transduction Pathways using Protein Fragment Complementation Assays -- Reverse-Phase Protein Microarrays and Their Utility in Drug Development -- A Cell Culture System that Mimics Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Cells Microenvironment for Drug Screening and Characterization -- 2-Dimensional vs. 3-Dimensional in vitro Tumor Migration and Invasion Assays -- Tumor Spheroid-based Migration Assays for Evaluation of Therapeutic Agents -- The NeuroSphere Assay (NSA) Applied to Neural Stem Cells (NSCs) and Cancer Stem Cells (CSCs).-Genetically Engineered Animal Models for in vivo Target Identification and Validation in Oncology -- Target Validation in Mice by Constitutive and Conditional RNAi -- In vivo Target Validation by Inducible RNAi in Human Xenograft Mouse Models -- Brightfield In Situ Hybridization Methods to Discover Gene Amplifications and Rearrangements in Clinical Samples -- Combined microRNA In Situ Hybridization and Immunohistochemical Detection of Protein Markers.
Keywords: Pharmacology; Medicinal chemistry; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Medicinal Chemistry