Fragment-based approaches in drug discovery and chemical biology

DE Scott, AG Coyne, SA Hudson, C Abell - Biochemistry, 2012 - ACS Publications
Fragment-based approaches to finding novel small molecules that bind to proteins are now
firmly established in drug discovery and chemical biology. Initially developed primarily in a …

Fragment-based drug discovery

DA Erlanson, RS McDowell… - Journal of medicinal …, 2004 - ACS Publications
The pharmaceutical industry's ability to produce new medicines is directly tied to its success
in identifying druglike molecules that target clinically relevant pathways. As a consequence …

Tethering: fragment-based drug discovery

DA Erlanson, JA Wells… - Annu. Rev. Biophys …, 2004 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract The genomics revolution has provided a deluge of new targets for drug discovery.
To facilitate the drug discovery process, many researchers are turning to fragment-based …

Theory and applications of NMR-based screening in pharmaceutical research

CA Lepre, JM Moore, JW Peng - Chemical reviews, 2004 - ACS Publications
Since the first report appeared in 19961 describing the use of NMR spectroscopy to screen
for potential drug molecules, the field of NMR-based screening has evolved rapidly. Over the …

Library design for fragment based screening

A Schuffenhauer, S Ruedisser… - Current topics in …, 2005 - ingentaconnect.com
According to Hann's model of molecular complexity an increased probability of detection
binding to a target protein can be expected when small, low complex molecular fragments …

High impact technologies for natural products screening

FE Koehn - Natural compounds as drugs volume I, 2008 - Springer
Natural products have historically been a rich source of lead molecules in drug discovery.
However, natural products have been de-emphasized as high throughput screening …

Design and characterization of libraries of molecular fragments for use in NMR screening against protein targets

N Baurin, F Aboul-Ela, X Barril, B Davis… - Journal of chemical …, 2004 - ACS Publications
We have designed four generations of a low molecular weight fragment library for use in
NMR-based screening against protein targets. The library initially contained 723 fragments …

Structural biology of protein tyrosine kinases

SW Cowan-Jacob - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences CMLS, 2006 - Springer
Our current understanding of the structure, mechanism of action and modes of regulation of
the protein tyrosine kinase family owes a great deal to structural biology. Structures are now …

Allosteric inhibition of the protein-protein interaction between the leukemia-associated proteins Runx1 and CBFβ

MJ Gorczynski, J Grembecka, Y Zhou, Y Kong… - Chemistry & biology, 2007 - cell.com
The two subunits of core binding factor (Runx1 and CBFβ) play critical roles in
hematopoiesis and are frequent targets of chromosomal translocations found in leukemia …

Estimating protein− ligand binding affinity using high-throughput screening by NMR

MD Shortridge, DS Hage, GS Harbison… - Journal of …, 2008 - ACS Publications
Many of today's drug discovery programs use high-throughput screening methods that rely
on quick evaluations of protein activity to rank potential chemical leads. By monitoring …