METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING CELLULAR RESPONSES ATTRIBUTABLE TO SIGNALING MOLECULE INHIBITION AND INHIBITORS THEREOF

摘要

The present invention provides a method for the identification of a pattern of changes in cellular responses induced by the selective inhibition of a signaling molecule, by determining the specific effects of a selective inhibitor on a mutant form of a signaling molecule on cellular responses. The pattern of alterations in cellular responses resulting from the inhibition by a selective mutant inhibitor of the mutant signaling molecule are characteristic of the cellular response alterations that a specific inhibitor of the wild-type signaling molecule will produce. After determining the pattern of cellular responses of the mutant cells with the mutant molecule, compounds may be identified capable of inhibiting the wild-type molecule by producing a pattern of cellular responses in wild-type cells matching or having similarity to that of the inhibition of the mutant molecule.