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Title
Repositioning the Substrate Activity Screening (SAS) approach as a fragment-based method for identification of weak binders
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Abstract
Fragment-based drug discovery (FBDD) has evolved into an established approach for hit identification. Typically, most applications of FBDD depend on specialised cost- and time-intensive biophysical techniques. The substrate activity screening (SAS) approach has been proposed as a relatively cheap and straightforward alternative for identification of fragments for enzyme inhibitors. We have investigated SAS for the discovery of inhibitors of oncology target urokinase (uPA). Although our results support the key hypotheses of SAS, we also encountered a number of unreported limitations. In response, we propose an efficient modified methodology: MSAS (modified substrate activity screening). MSAS circumvents the limitations of SAS and broadens its scope by providing additional fragments and more coherent SAR data. As well as presenting and validating MSAS, this study expands existing SAR knowledge for the S1 pocket of uPA and reports new reversible and irreversible uPA inhibitor scaffolds.
Language
English
Source (journal)
ChemBioChem: a European journal of chemical biology. - Weinheim
Publication
Weinheim : Wiley , 2014
ISSN
1439-4227
DOI
10.1002/CBIC.201402192
Volume/pages
15 :15 (2014) , p. 2238-2247
ISI
000342901800011
Pubmed ID
25154878
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UAntwerpen
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Publications with a UAntwerp address
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Creation 10.12.2014
Last edited 09.10.2023
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