Discovery of Potent Inhibitors of Dihydroneopterin Aldolase Using CrystaLEAD High-Throughput X-ray Crystallographic Screening and Structure-Directed Lead Optimization
作者:William J. Sanders、Vicki L. Nienaber、Claude G. Lerner、J. Owen McCall、Sean M. Merrick、Susan J. Swanson、John E. Harlan、Vincent S. Stoll、Geoffrey F. Stamper、Stephen F. Betz、Kevin R. Condroski、Robert P. Meadows、Jean M. Severin、Karl A. Walter、Peter Magdalinos、Clarissa G. Jakob、Rolf Wagner、Bruce A. Beutel
DOI:10.1021/jm030497y
日期:2004.3.1
Potent inhibitors of 7,8-dihydroneopterin aldolase (DHNA; EC 4.1.2.25) have been discovered using CrystaLEAD X-ray crystallographic high-throughput screening followed by structure-directed optimization. Screening of a 10 000 compound random library provided several low affinity leads and their corresponding X-ray crystal structures bound to the enzyme. The presence of a common structural feature in each of the leads suggested a strategy for the construction of a directed library of approximately 1000 compounds that were screened for inhibitory activity in a traditional enzyme assay. Several lead compounds with IC50 values of about 1 muM against DHNA were identified, and crystal structures of their enzyme-bound complex's were obtained by cocrystallization. Structure-directed optimization of one of the leads thus identified afforded potent inhibitors with submicromolar IC50 values.