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Covalent Fragment Screening and Optimization Identifies the Chloroacetohydrazide Scaffold as Inhibitors for Ubiquitin C-terminal Hydrolase L1

Covalent Modifiers

Herein, we describe a covalent fragment screen that identified the chloroacetohydrazide scaffold as a covalent UCHL1 inhibitor. Subsequent optimization provided an improved fragment with single-digit micromolar potency against UCHL1 and selectivity over the closely related UCHL3.

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APEIRON Biologics AG and Domainex Ltd announce the expansion of their partnership to progress targeted cancer immune therapy drug discovery

Drug Discovery Today

Integrated lead optimisation to advance APEIRON’s Cbl-b inhibitor development programme APN431; Inhibitors discovered at Domainex via virtual and fragment screening

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Clustering Fragment Screening Hits With a Self-Organizing Map

Practical Cheminformatics

Clustering Fragment Screening Hits With a Self-Organizing Map (SOM) In a paper, " Fragment binding to the Nsp3 macrodomain of SARS-CoV-2 identified through crystallographic screening and computational docking ", published last year by scientists from UCSF and the Diamond Light Source, the authors reported more than 200 structures of fragments bound (..)

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Target-directed cancer: protein-ligand interactions  

Drug Target Review

In terms of compound libraries, we have a high-throughput screening library of about 200,000 ligands. For fragment screening, which are much smaller compounds, we have a library of about 3000 fragments. We can screen with many different formats and modalities.

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Probing the Protein Kinases' Cysteinome by Covalent Fragments

Covalent Modifiers

Previously, covalent fragment screens yielded potent and selective compounds for individual kinases such as ERK1/2 but have not been applied to the broader kinome. Furthermore, many of the accessible cysteine positions have not been addressed so far.

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Covalent Modifiers - Untitled Article

Covalent Modifiers

Overall, we demonstrate that focused covalent fragment screening can be used to rapidly identify highly potent and selective electrophiles targeting bacterial serine hydrolases. This approach could be applied to other classes of lipid hydrolases in diverse pathogens or higher eukaryotes.

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Silly Things Large Language Models Do With Molecules

Practical Cheminformatics

Testing Claude’s Molecule Generation Ability To test the molecule generation ability of Claude, a general-purpose LLM from Anthropic, I prompted it to generate analogs for hits from fragment screens. These fragment hits are small molecules with between 11 and 21 heavy atoms.