Non-Human Kinomes

With this in mind, it seems entirely plausible that a concerted attempt to develop kinase inhibitors that target kinases from parasitic pathogens could offer fertile ground for the development of novel treatments for the appalling diseases that they cause. 

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Figure 5. An example of intra-family target hopping within kinases. According to SiteSorter, Braf kinase, the primary target for the clinical compound BAY 43-9006, is one of the 10 most similar kinases to c-Kit, which has also been shown to bind BAY 43-9006 with sub-micromolar affinity (60% of the binding site residues are consen/ed and colored blue non-consen/ed positions are colored yellow). This cross-reactivity cannot be predicted based on the sequence similarity of the Braf and c-Kit kinase domains, since approximately one-sixth of the human kinome is more sequence similar to Braf than c-KiL...

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