期刊
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
卷 111, 期 30, 页码 11007-11012出版社
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1320556111
关键词
chemical biology; drug discovery; helical mimetic
资金
- National Science Foundation [CHE-1212720]
- Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea - Ministry of Education, Science and Technology [2012R1A2007768]
- POSCO
- XSEDE [MCB070009]
- National Institutes of Health [1R21NS079881-01]
- Indiana University's Research Support Funds Grant
- Indiana University School of Medicine's Biomedical Research Grant
Pharmacological chaperones are small molecules that bind to proteins and stabilize them against thermal denaturation or proteolytic degradation, as well as assist or prevent certain protein-protein assemblies. These activities are being exploited for the development of treatments for diseases caused by protein instability and/or aberrant protein-protein interactions, such as those found in certain forms of cancers and neurodegenerative diseases. However, designing or discovering pharmacological chaperones for specific targets is challenging because of the relatively featureless protein target surfaces, the lack of suitable chemical libraries, and the shortage of efficient high-throughput screening methods. In this study, we attempted to address all these challenges by synthesizing a diverse library of small molecules that mimic protein a-helical secondary structures commonly found in protein-protein interaction surfaces. This was accompanied by establishing a facile on-bead high-throughput screening method that allows for rapid and efficient discovery of potential pharmacological chaperones and for identifying novel chaperones/inhibitors against a cancer-associated protein, myeloid cell leukemia 1 (MCL-1), and a Parkinson disease-associated protein, a-synuclein. Our data suggest that the compounds and methods described here will be useful tools for the development of pharmaceuticals for complex-disease targets that are traditionally deemed undruggable.
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