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ReviewMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2016

Process of Fragment-Based Lead Discovery-A Perspective from NMR.

Rongsheng Ma, Pengchao Wang, Jihui Wu, Ke Ruan

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Review in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Fragment-Based Approaches to Identify RNA Binders.Journal of medicinal chemistry · 2023
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  4. Applications of Solution NMR in Drug Discovery.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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  5. NMR in target driven drug discovery: why not?Journal of biomolecular NMR · 2020
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  6. Paramagnetic NMR in drug discovery.Journal of biomolecular NMR · 2020
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  11. Solution NMR Spectroscopy in Target-Based Drug Discovery.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2017
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  12. Foreword: Pacific Fragments.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2016
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4 authors.

Rongsheng MaHefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at the Microscale, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, Anhui, China. mrs1988@mail.ustc.edu.cn.
Pengchao WangHefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at the Microscale, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, Anhui, China. wpc1009@mail.ustc.edu.cn.
Jihui WuHefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at the Microscale, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, Anhui, China. wujihui@ustc.edu.cn.
Ke RuanHefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at the Microscale, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, Anhui, China. kruan@ustc.edu.cn.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fragment-based lead discovery (FBLD) has proven fruitful during the past two decades for a variety of targets, even challenging protein-protein interaction (PPI) systems. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy plays a vital role, from initial fragment-based screening to lead generation, because of its power to probe the intrinsically weak interactions between targets and low-molecular-weight fragments. Here, we review the NMR FBLD process from initial library construction to lead generation. We describe technical aspects regarding fragment library design, ligand- and protein-observed screening, and protein-ligand structure model generation. For weak binders, the initial hit-to-lead evolution can be guided by structural information retrieved from NMR spectroscopy, including chemical shift perturbation, transferred pseudocontact shifts, and paramagnetic relaxation enhancement. This perspective examines structure-guided optimization from weak fragment screening hits to potent leads for challenging PPI targets.

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Drug DiscoveryMagnetic Resonance SpectroscopyComputer SimulationLigandsModels, MolecularMolecular ConformationProtein BindingSmall Molecule LibrariesStructure-Activity RelationshipLigandsSmall Molecule Librariesfragment based lead discoveryNMR spectroscopyprotein–protein interaction

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PMID27438813
PMCPMC6273320

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