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Publication Abstract from PubMed
A bottleneck in fragment-based lead development is the lack of systematic approaches to elaborate the initial fragment hits, which usually bind with low affinity to their target. Herein, we describe an analysis using X-ray crystallography of a diverse library of compounds prepared using microscale parallel synthesis. This approach yielded an 8-fold increase in affinity and detailed structural information for the resulting complex, providing an efficient and broadly applicable approach to early fragment development.
Rapid Elaboration of Fragments into Leads by X-ray Crystallographic Screening of Parallel Chemical Libraries (REFiLX).,Bentley MR, Ilyichova OV, Wang G, Williams ML, Sharma G, Alwan WS, Whitehouse RL, Mohanty B, Scammells PJ, Heras B, Martin JL, Totsika M, Capuano B, Doak BC, Scanlon MJ J Med Chem. 2020 Jun 24. doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.0c00111. PMID:32529824[1]
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References
- ↑ Bentley MR, Ilyichova OV, Wang G, Williams ML, Sharma G, Alwan WS, Whitehouse RL, Mohanty B, Scammells PJ, Heras B, Martin JL, Totsika M, Capuano B, Doak BC, Scanlon MJ. Rapid Elaboration of Fragments into Leads by X-ray Crystallographic Screening of Parallel Chemical Libraries (REFiLX). J Med Chem. 2020 Jun 24. doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.0c00111. PMID:32529824 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jmedchem.0c00111
