Assay to detect substances useful for therapy

C - Chemistry – Metallurgy – 12 – Q

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C12Q 1/44 (2006.01)

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CA 2384306

The present invention relates to the use of effectors/regulators for Rab and Rho GTPases in in vitro and in vivo assays that recapitulate and measure the role of these effectors/regulators in membrane transport and membrane- cytoskeleton interactions in the endocytic pathway as novel targets to find therapeutic drugs to prevent or inhibit cancer cell growth and arrest cancer cell invasiveness as well as for stimulating and/or restoring endocytic transport and phagosome maturation in cells infected by intracellular parasites, which drugs are therefore useful for the therapy and optionally also the prophylaxis of cancer and infectious diseases. In addition, the present invention is also directed to kits useful as a means to detect drugs suitable as anti-cancer and anti-infectious diseases drugs.

La présente invention concerne l'utilisation d'effecteurs/régulateurs de Rab et Rho, ainsi que des Gtpases, dans des dosages inin vitro et in vivo qui récapitulent et mesurent le rôle desdits effecteurs/régulateurs en matière de transport membranaire et d'intéractions membrane-cytosquelette dans la voie endocytique, en tant que nouvelles cibles destinées à identifier de nouveaux médicaments thérapeutiques pouvant prévenir ou inhiber la croissance de cellules tumorales ou enrayer le pouvoir envahissant de cellules cancéreuses, ainsi qu'à stimuler et/ou rétablir le transport endocytique et la maturation du phagosome dans des cellules infectées par des parasites intracellulaires. Ces médicaments peuvent donc être utilisés à des fins thérapeutiques et, éventuellement, à des fins prophylactiques contre le cancer ou des maladies infectieuses. L'invention concerne en outre des trousses servant à identifier des médicaments utiles contre le cancer ou contre des maladies infectieuses.

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