Rapid Elaboration of Fragments into Leads by X-ray Crystallographic Screening of Parallel Chemical Libraries (REFiL<sub>X</sub>)
作者:Matthew R. Bentley、Olga V. Ilyichova、Geqing Wang、Martin L. Williams、Gaurav Sharma、Wesam S. Alwan、Rebecca L. Whitehouse、Biswaranjan Mohanty、Peter J. Scammells、Begoña Heras、Jennifer L. Martin、Makrina Totsika、Ben Capuano、Bradley C. Doak、Martin J. Scanlon
DOI:10.1021/acs.jmedchem.0c00111
日期:2020.7.9
A bottleneck in fragment-based lead development is the lack of systematic approaches to elaborate the initial fragment hits, which usually bind with low affinity to their target. Herein, we describe an analysis using X-ray crystallography of a diverse library of compounds prepared using microscale parallel synthesis. This approach yielded an 8-fold increase in affinity and detailed structural information for the resulting complex, providing an efficient and broadly applicable approach to early fragment development.