Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: ChemMedChem. 2013 Jan 9;8(2):242–255. doi: 10.1002/cmdc.201200507

Table 4.

Fractions of ordinary and zwitterionic ampholytes present in drug, chemogenomic and screening datasets.

Dataset Proportion
of total
compounds
(%)
Fraction
ordinary
ampholytes
(%)
Fraction
zwitterionic
ampholytes
(%)
Drugs 9.5 53.9 46.1

Aspartyl proteases 5.0 90.8 9.2
Cysteine proteases 4.4 82.7 17.3
GPCR amines 7.4 42.9 57.1
GPCR cannabinoid 2.4 97.2 2.8
GPCR nucleotide 6.8 91.6 8.4
GPCR class A other 5.6 78.4 21.6
GPCR peptide 15.0 55.6 44.4
GPCR prostaglandin 24.5 28.0 72.0
GPCR class B 8.5 98.3 1.7
GPCR class C 9.2 62.0 38.0
Integrins 31.6 14.0 86.0
Ligand-gated ion channel 8.5 66.6 33.4
Voltage-gated ion channel 6.4 49.4 50.6
Ion channel - other 4.1 84.6 15.4
Tyrosine kinases 6.4 94.5 5.5
Kinases – non tyrosine 9.4 79.5 20.5
Metalloproteases 16.7 88.4 11.6
Nuclear receptors 16.5 85.4 14.6
Oxido reductases 7.4 79.4 20.6
Oxygenases 13.0 46.8 53.2
Phosphodiesterases 9.9 91.7 8.3
Serine proteases 8.8 26.8 73.2
Transporters 5.4 17.5 82.5
Unknown targets 10.3 52.3 47.7

Vendors – drug-like clean 4.8 95.8 4.2
‘Natural’ products 6.7 59.3 40.7
Vendors – clean leads 5.1 94.1 5.9