Allied Journal of Medical Research

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Allied Journal of Medical Research 44 7897 074717

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Covalent drugs haveproved to achieve success therapies for various indications, but largely due to safety concerns, they're rarely considered when initiating a target-directed drug discovery project. there's a requirement to reassess this important class of medicine, and to reconcile the discordance between the historic success of covalent drugs and therefore the reluctance of most drug discovery teams to incorporate them in their armamentarium. This Review surveys the prevalence and pharmacological advantages of covalent drugs, discusses how potential risks and challenges could also be addressed through innovative design, and presents the broad opportunities provided by targeted covalent inhibitors.

Drugs that form a covalent attachment to their target have traditionally been considered as conceptually distinct from conventional non-covalent drugs. especially, the very fact that such drugs derive a part of their affinity by forming a chemical bond with their target has engendered anxiety concerning their potential for off-target reactivity and has led to those drugs being disfavoured as a drug class. These concerns largely stem from pioneering work that was administered within the early 1970s on the hepatotoxic properties of compounds like bromobenzene and acetaminophen, which undergo metabolism to make highly reactive intermediates that covalently bind to liver proteins. Although there has been much controversy over the years on the role of covalent binding within the pathogenesis of idiosyncratic drug-related toxicity, the formation of chemically reactive drug metabolites has been viewed as a risk think about drug development, either through direct tissue damage or through haptenization of proteins which will elicit an immune reaction .

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