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BIOORGANIC & MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
Volume 26, Issue 15, Pages 3594-3597Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2016.06.013
Keywords
Fragment library; CK2; Kinase inhibitors; Fragment-based drug discovery
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81402852]
- Beijing Natural Science Foundation [7152013]
- Beijing Municipal Commission of Education Research Projects [KM201610005031]
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By deconvoluting 238,073 bioactive molecules in the ChEMBL library into extended Murcko ring systems, we identified a set of 2245 ring systems present in at least 10 molecules. These ring systems belong to 2221 clusters by ECFP4 fingerprints with a minimum intracluster similarity of 0.8. Their overlap with ring systems in commercial libraries was further quantified. Our findings suggest that success of a small fragment library is driven by the convergence of effective coverage of bioactive ring systems (e.g., 10% coverage by 1000 fragments vs. 40% by 2 million HTS compounds), high enrichment of bioactive ring systems, and low molecular complexity enhancing the probability of a match with the protein targets. Reconciling with the previous studies, bioactive ring systems are underrepresented in screening libraries. As such, we propose a library of virtual fragments with key functionalities via fragmentation of bioactive molecules. Its utility is exemplified by a prospective application on protein kinase CK2, resulting in the discovery of a series of novel inhibitors with the most potent compound having an IC50 of 0.5 mu M and a ligand efficiency of 0.41 kcal/mol per heavy atom. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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