The present invention relates to drug discovery methods, particularly methods for assaying compounds for activity as Aurora kinase inhibitors. This invention also relates to a pharmacophore describing compounds that are able to promote a conformational change in the protein AuroraB and whose binding constant for the two-step process is given as Ki*. Finally, this invention also relates to compounds having the features of the pharmacophore.
本发明涉及药物发现方法,特别是用于检测化合物作为枢纽激酶
抑制剂活性的方法。该发明还涉及描述能够促使蛋白质AuroraB发生构象变化的化合物的药效团,并且其对于两步过程的结合常数被给定为Ki*。最后,该发明还涉及具有药效团特征的化合物。