Fragment-based target screening as an empirical approach to prioritising targets: a case study on antibacterials.


Journal

Drug discovery today
ISSN: 1878-5832
Titre abrégé: Drug Discov Today
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9604391

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
10 Sep 2020
Historique:
received: 22 01 2020
revised: 27 07 2020
accepted: 03 09 2020
pubmed: 14 9 2020
medline: 14 9 2020
entrez: 13 9 2020
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

Here, we describe a novel workflow combining informatic and experimental approaches to enable evidence-based prioritising of targets from large sets in parallel. High-throughput protein production and biophysical fragment screening is used to identify those targets that are tractable and ligandable. As proof of concept we have applied this to a set of antibacterial targets comprising 146 essential genes. Of these targets, 51 were selected and 38 delivered results that allowed us to rank them by ligandability. The data obtained against these derisked targets have enabled rapid progression into structurally enabled drug discovery projects, demonstrating the practical value of the fragment-based target screening workflow.

Identifiants

pubmed: 32920060
pii: S1359-6446(20)30339-1
doi: 10.1016/j.drudis.2020.09.003
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Review

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.

Auteurs

Peter Canning (P)

Centre for Therapeutics Discovery, LifeArc, Accelerator Building, Open Innovation Campus, Stevenage, SG1 2FX, UK.

Kristian Birchall (K)

Centre for Therapeutics Discovery, LifeArc, Accelerator Building, Open Innovation Campus, Stevenage, SG1 2FX, UK.

Catherine A Kettleborough (CA)

Centre for Therapeutics Discovery, LifeArc, Accelerator Building, Open Innovation Campus, Stevenage, SG1 2FX, UK.

Andy Merritt (A)

Centre for Therapeutics Discovery, LifeArc, Accelerator Building, Open Innovation Campus, Stevenage, SG1 2FX, UK.

Peter J Coombs (PJ)

Centre for Therapeutics Discovery, LifeArc, Accelerator Building, Open Innovation Campus, Stevenage, SG1 2FX, UK. Electronic address: peter.coombs@lifearc.org.

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