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. 2015 Mar 20;5:9325. doi: 10.1038/srep09325

Table 1. Top-ranked drug lead productive clusters with higher number of approved leads in the natural product chemical space represented by 137,836 natural products and 442 natural product leads. The corresponding target site class(es) and superclass(es) are also listed.

Drug Lead Cluster (Branch) Drug Lead Molecular Scaffold Groups No of NPs No of Leads, Drugs (Approved/Trial) Target Site Super Class Target Site Class
DC19 (14) Steroids & derivatives 546 32/5, 85/8 steroid sites Nuclear receptor ligand sites
DC5 (3) Pyrimidine nucleosides, Aminoglycosides 225 19/0, 32/0 nucleoside phosphate sites, aminoacyl-tRNA sites DNA metab enzymes nucleoside phosphate, ribosome 30 s aminoacyl-tRNA sites
DC13 (4) Purine nucleosides, Imidazole analogs & their oligopeptide hybrids 264 17/2, 39/22 Nucleoside sites, nucleoside phosphate sites nucleoside receptor ligand & metabolism enzyme substrate sites, Nucleoside phosphate receptor ligand, DNA metab enzymes nucleoside phosphate sites
DC7 (3) Amino acids with acyclic hydroxyl side chain & derivatives 217 15/0, 23/0 amino acid sites amino acid receptor ligand & metab enzyme substrate sites
DC17 (14) Macrolides, Polyenes, Spinosyns, Acarviosins 117 15/4, 29/14 amino acid phosphate sites, oligopeptide sites, lipopolysaccharide sites phosphatase substrate, ribosome 23S peptidyl transferase, outer membrane lipopolysaccharide sites
DC21 (14) Fatty acids & derivatives, Prostanoids 423 8/1, 26/1 fatty acid, cannabinoid, eicosanoid, retinoid, coenzyme A sites retinoid receptor ligand, CoA metab enzyme substrate sites
DC28 (17) Cardiac glycosides 176 8/1, 12/1 nucleoside phosphate sites nucleoside phosphate metab enzyme substrate sites
DC38 (21) Intermediate-sized linear and cyclic peptides 33 7/1, 32/2 Oligopeptide sites, lipopolysaccharide sites exopeptidase substrate, Neuropeptide receptor ligand, outer membrane lipopolysaccharide sites
DC8 (3) Beta-lactams 92 6/2, 90/6 peptidoglycan sites ß-lactam binding protein peptidoglycan sites
DC29 (20) Saponins, Triterpenoid glycosides, Macrocyclic lactones 1696 6/1, 7/2 nucleoside phosphate sites steroid metab enzyme nucleoside phosphate, calcium channel DHP, chloride channel CBS sites
DC45 (30) Tetracyclines, Capsaicinoids, Disulfide bromotyrosine derivatives 447 6/3, 13/7 aminoacyl-tRNA sites ribosome 30 s aminoacyl-tRNA sites
DC49 (32) Opiate alkaloids, Phenanthrene alkaloids 457 6/1, 18/1 amine sites, opiate sites amine receptor ligand, opiate receptor ligand sites
DC10 (3) Glycosaminoglycans, glucosamines, Lincosamides & derivatives 237 5/0, 17/0 oligopeptide sites serine endopeptidase substrate sites
DC12 (4) Purine base analogs, modified purine base analogs 180 5/0, 9/0 nucleoside sites, nucleoside phosphate sites nucleoside receptor ligand, DNA metab enzymes nucleoside phosphate sites
DC14 (7) Larger indole alkaloids 4104 5/1, 15/16 amine sites, oligopeptide sites amine receptor ligand & transporter substrate, exopeptidase substrate sites
DC53 (10) Cannabinoids, Diarylheptanoids, Dihydrostilbenoids, Small phenolic molecules with a long tail 2531 5/4, 9/8 fatty acid, cannabinoid, eicosanoid, retinoid sites fatty acid metab enzyme substrate, retinoid receptor ligand, cannabinoid receptor ligand sites
DC24 (16) Oligo-, Poly-, Cyclic- saccharides 259 5/0, 5/0 cyclic oligosaccharide drug delivery systems cyclodextrin drug delivery systems
DC36 (20) Large cyclic peptides 265 5/6, 6/7 nucleoside phosphate sites, sites within peptidoglycans, saccharide sites, lipopolysaccharide sites calcium channel DHP, cell wall peptidoglycan, polysaccharide metab enzyme substrates, outer membrane lipopolysaccharide sites
DC40 (24) Porphyrins, Prodiginines, Ergoline-, Ellipticine-, Epibatidine- alkaloids 519 5/3, 8/4 amine sites, nucleobase sites amine receptors ligand, DNA intercalation sites
DC42 (26) Indole-containing amino acid tryptophan analogs, Monoterpenoid indole alkaloids, Yohimbine alkaloids 512 5/2, 6/4 amine sites amine receptor ligand sites
DC43 (28) Tropane alkaloids 29 5/0, 10/0 amine sites amine receptor ligand & transporter substrate sites
DC44 (28) Catecholamines, Small alkaloids with an amine group 358 5/0, 21/0 amine, opiate sites amine receptor, opiate receptor ligand sites