Efficient discovery of inhibitory ligands for diverse targets from a small combinatorial chemical library of chimeric molecules

Autor: L.Charlie Chen, Kenneth F. Wertman, James Spoonamore, Anna Robinson, Sydney Wilson, David S. Thorpe, Alan Binnie, Martha Ackerman-Berrier, Shelly Wade, Stefan Walle, Helen Yeoman, Qinyuan (Quincey) Wu, A.W. Edith Chan, David Rodwell
Rok vydání: 1999
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Zdroj: Biochemical and biophysical research communications. 266(1)
ISSN: 0006-291X
Popis: Living systems are mainly composed and regulated by compounds in four biochemical classes and their polymers-nucleotides, carbohydrates, lipids, and amino acids. Early combinatorial chemistry libraries consisted of peptides. The present report describes the general bioactivity and biophysical properties of a combinatorial chemical library that used glyco, nucleotidyl, and lipid building blocks. The resulting chimeric combinatorial library of 361 compounds had a confirmed cumulative hit rate of 0.16%, which is 8-fold higher than a commonly claimed industrial benchmark of 0. 02%. It produced 7 structurally confirmed hits for a third of 12 proprietary drug discovery projects, and these comprised a variety of molecular targets. Diversity analyses demonstrated that despite the small number of compounds, a wider range of diversity space was covered by this library of biochemical chimeras than by a branched tripeptide library of the same size and similar generic formula.
Databáze: OpenAIRE