Drugs, their targets and the nature and number of drug targets

Peter Imming; Christian Sinning; Achim Meyer

doi:10.1038/nrd2132

Drugs, their targets and the nature and number of drug targets

Nat Rev Drug Discov. 2006 Oct;5(10):821-34. doi: 10.1038/nrd2132.

Authors

Peter Imming¹, Christian Sinning, Achim Meyer

Affiliation

¹ Institut für Pharmazie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 06120 Halle, Germany. peter.imming@pharmazie.uni-halle.de

PMID: 17016423
DOI: 10.1038/nrd2132

Abstract

What is a drug target? And how many such targets are there? Here, we consider the nature of drug targets, and by classifying known drug substances on the basis of the discussed principles we provide an estimation of the total number of current drug targets.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Animals
Drug Design*
Humans
Pharmaceutical Preparations / classification*
Pharmacology*

Substances

Pharmaceutical Preparations