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

Covalent Modifiers

Thus, UCHL1 inhibitors could serve as a viable treatment strategy against these aggressive cancers. Herein, we describe a covalent fragment screen that identified the chloroacetohydrazide scaffold as a covalent UCHL1 inhibitor.

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Advancements in hit identification for membrane protein drug discovery

Drug Target Review

This receptor is also expressed in the brain, where it helps to regulate dopamine release, making it a therapeutic target for the treatment of insomnia, pain, depression and Parkinson’s disease. This crucial role in regulating vital bodily processes makes it a highly important drug target within GPCR research. References Sun D, et al.

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High Throughput Screening (HTS)

Sygnature Discovery

Sygnature Discovery offers high throughput screening along with additional hit identification tools including virtual screening, knowledge-based design, and fragment screening. Sygnature Discovery integrates cutting-edge automation to ensure efficiency and precision in our HTS processes.

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Target-directed cancer: protein-ligand interactions  

Drug Target Review

The mission of the CCDD is to discover novel small-molecule therapeutics for the treatment of cancer and progress them to hypothesis testing phase 1 clinical trials. In terms of compound libraries, we have a high-throughput screening library of about 200,000 ligands. We can screen with many different formats and modalities.

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Tom Lehrer's guide to design of SARS-CoV-3 main protease inhibitors for treatment of COVID-32

Molecular Design

In the fourth of his rules for air fighting , ‘Sailor’ Malan (readers may also be interested in his insights into fragment screening library design ) asserts that “height gives you the initiative” which can be adapted for drug design as “affinity gives you the initiative”.

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SARS-CoV-2 Protease Inhibitors: An Attractive Approach for Treating COVID-19

PerkinElmer

Viral protease inhibitors that block enzymes critical for viral replication have long been used in the treatment of human immunodeficiency (HIV) and hepatitis C viruses. Researchers are now studying the potential of protease inhibitors for the treatment of SARS-CoV-2. For research use only. Not for use in diagnostic procedures.

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SARS-CoV-2 main protease. Crowdsourcing, peptidomimetics and fragments

Molecular Design

While I’m not particularly keen on the use of the term ‘open source’ in this context, I have absolutely no quibble with the goal of seeking cures and treatments for diseases that are ignored by commercial drug discovery organizations.