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ACS CHEMICAL BIOLOGY
Volume 8, Issue 5, Pages 1044-1052Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/cb300729y
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- Welcome Trust [WT083481]
- CASE studentship
- MSDSchering-Plough
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
- German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
- German Federal Ministry for Education and Research
- German National Genome Research Network-Plus (NGFNPlus) [BMBF 01GS08104]
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Protein kinases constitute an attractive family of enzyme targets with high relevance to cell and disease biology. Small molecule inhibitors are powerful tools to dissect and elucidate the function of kinases in chemical biology research and to serve as potential starting points for drug discovery. However, the discovery and development of novel inhibitors remains challenging. Here, we describe a structure-based de novo design approach that generates novel, hinge-binding fragments that are synthetically feasible and can be elaborated to small molecule libraries. Starting from commercially available compounds, core fragments were extracted, filtered for pharmacophoric properties compatible with hinge-region binding, and docked into a panel of protein kinases. Fragments with a high consensus score were subsequently short-listed for synthesis. Application of this strategy led to a number of core fragments with no previously reported activity against kinases. Small libraries around the core fragments were synthesized, and representative compounds were tested against a large panel of protein kinases and subjected to co-crystallization experiments. Each of the tested compounds was active against at least one kinase, but not all kinases in the panel were inhibited. A number of compounds showed high ligand efficiencies for therapeutically relevant kinases; among them were MAPKAP-K3, SRPK1, SGK1, TAK1, and GCK for which only few inhibitors are reported in the literature.
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