scholarly journals Piezoresistive measurement of Swine H1N1 Hemagglutinin peptide binding with microcantilever arrays

AIP Advances ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 037118 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Bajwa ◽  
C. J. Maldonado ◽  
T. Thundat ◽  
A. Passian
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luke Adams ◽  
Lorna E. Wilkinson-White ◽  
Menachem J. Gunzburg ◽  
Stephen J. Headey ◽  
Martin J. Scanlon ◽  
...  

The development of low-affinity fragment hits into higher affinity leads is a major hurdle in fragment-based drug design. Here we demonstrate an approach for the Rapid Elaboration of Fragments into Leads (REFiL) applying an integrated workflow that provides a systematic approach to generate higher-affinity binders without the need for structural information. The workflow involves the selection of commercial analogues of fragment hits to generate preliminary structure-activity relationships. This is followed by parallel microscale chemistry using chemoinformatically designed reagent libraries to rapidly explore chemical diversity. Upon completion of a fragment screen against Bromodomain-3 extra terminal (BRD3-ET) domain we applied the REFiL workflow, which allowed us to develop a series of tetrahydrocarbazole ligands that bind to the peptide binding site of BRD3-ET. With REFiL we were able to rapidly improve binding affinity >30-fold. The REFiL workflow can be applied readily to a broad range of protein targets without the need of a structure, allowing the efficient evolution of low-affinity fragments into higher affinity leads and chemical probes.<br>


Author(s):  
Marcus Davidsson ◽  
Gang Wang ◽  
Patrick Aldrin-Kirk ◽  
Tiago Cardoso ◽  
Sara Nolbrant ◽  
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