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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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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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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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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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Practical Cheminformatics - The Directory

Practical Cheminformatics

Adding Chemical Structures to a Recent COVID-19 Drug Repurposing Dataset Filtering Chemical Libraries Data Visualization / Plotting A Collection of Things I Frequently Forget How To Do With Seaborn Scatterplots Interactive Plots with Chemical Structures Visualizing Chemical Space Plotting Distributions Molecular Modeling Exploring the SARS-CoV-2 Main (..)

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Reinventing the small molecule toolbox: from proteins to RNA

Dark Matter Blog

We sampled several screening platforms in the course of our efforts, including fragment screening using ligand-observed nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), DNA-encoded libraries (DEL), and SEC-MS. Each of these platforms is thoroughly vetted in protein world, but using them on RNA can yield surprising results.

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Sygnature Discovery acquires Peak Proteins

Sygnature Discovery

Their world-class expertise in protein crystallography will enhance our fragment screening and analysis activities, as well as our structure-based drug design work.” Mark Abbott, CEO of Peak Proteins, commented: “We have always valued Sygnature Discovery’s support and are now really pleased to be joining them.