Pharmaciana: Jurnal Kefarmasian
Vol 13, No 3 (2023): Pharmaciana

Repurposing drugs in endometrial cancer using genomic variants database

Darmawi Darmawi (Graduate School in Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Riau)
Donel S (Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Riau)
Wiwin Suhandri (Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Riau)
Winarto Winarto (Unknown)
Wirawan Adikusuma (Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health Science, University of Muhammadiyah Mataram)
Lalu Muhammad Irham (Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ahmad Dahlan)
Wiwit Ade Fidiawati (Department of Pathology Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Riau)
Renardy Reza Razali (Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Riau)
Auren Nathania (Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Riau)
Leina Putri Zahra (Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Riau)



Article Info

Publish Date
16 Dec 2023

Abstract

Endometrial cancer (EC) is the fourth most frequent gynecological cancers, and its incidence and mortality rates have increased over the last decade. Cytotoxic therapy with carboplatin and paclitaxel is the recommended first-line treatment for EC patients. However, the options for following therapy are limited. The latest advances in molecular studies have uncovered the nature of genetic alterations in EC, compelling methods for further research into the treatment of EC since they may disclose to tailored pharmacological therapy. The aim of this study to identify novel drug candidates in treating EC using genomics variants and biological pathway. The genomic variants of  EC were downloaded from cBioportal database. We established connection between the biological EC risk genes from cBioportal database and the DrugBank database. Finally, we used Connectivity Map (CMap) analysis to identify possible drugs whose mechanisms coincided with therapeutic targets and rank them based on the scoring system. We identified novel potential candidate drugs for EC, they are Bosutinib and Nilutamide which exhibit robust scores in the CMap analysis compare to paclitaxel. We also discovered BCR-ABL1 and AR as potential biomarker-driven therapy in EC. This study demonstrates the possibility of using genetic network analysis combined with bioinformatics to repurpose drugs for the treatment of EC. Further study will investigate the mechanisms of using BCR-ABL1 and AR targeting in the treatment of EC.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

PHARMACIANA

Publisher

Subject

Medicine & Pharmacology

Description

Pharmaciana is a scientific journal published by the University of Ahmad Dahlan worked closely with Ikatan Apoteker Indonesia (IAI). Pharmaciana published three times a year, namely March, July and November. with ISSN 2088-4559 and e-ISSN 2477-0256. The article published in the Journal Pharmaciana ...