Methods for discovery of enzyme ligands and inhibitors are disclosed. The methods comprise the creation and testing of combinatorial libraries comprising an active site-targeted component, a linker component and a peripheral site-targeted component. The methods also comprise a novel assay for determining whether a compound is a ligand of an enzyme. The assay evaluates whether the compound can inhibit the binding of a known ligand of the active site of the enzyme to a mutant of the enzyme that can bind the enzyme substrate but cannot catalyze an enzymatic reaction with the substrate. Various ligands and inhibitors of protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B (PTP1B) are also disclosed. These ligands and inhibitors were discovered using the above methods. One particular inhibitor discovered using the invention methods has the highest specificity and affinity of any PTP1B inhibitor discovered to date.
本发明公开了一种发现酶
配体和
抑制剂的方法。该方法包括创建和测试组合库,其中包括一个活性位点定向组分、一个连接组分和一个周边位点定向组分。该方法还包括一种新的测定化合物是否为酶
配体的测定方法。该测定方法评估化合物能否抑制已知酶活性位点的
配体与能够结合酶底物但不能催化底物酶反应的酶突变体的结合。本发明还公开了多种蛋白
酪氨酸磷酸酶1B(
PTP1B)的
配体和
抑制剂。这些
配体和
抑制剂是使用上述方法发现的。使用本发明方法发现的一种特定
抑制剂具有迄今为止任何
PTP1B
抑制剂中最高的特异性和亲和力。