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ArticleAngewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)2017

Allosteric Tuning of Caspase-7: A Fragment-Based Drug Discovery Approach.

Nicholas R Vance, Lokesh Gakhar, M Ashley Spies

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Article in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Fragment-Based Discovery of Novel Allosteric MEK1 Binders.ACS medicinal chemistry letters · 2021
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  6. Proteases: Pivot Points in Functional Proteomics.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2019
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  7. Allosteric Tuning of Caspase-7: A Fragment-Based Drug Discovery Approach.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2017
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Nicholas R VanceDivision of Medicinal and Natural Products Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Iowa, 115 S Grand Ave, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5858-6751
Lokesh GakharDepartment of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, University of Iowa, 51 Newton Road, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3319-1902
M Ashley SpiesDivision of Medicinal and Natural Products Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Iowa, 115 S Grand Ave, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1248-5362

Funding

PREDOCTORAL TRAINING PROGRAM IN BIOTECHNOLOGYT32GM008365 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · PI KERNS, ROBERT JOHN · 1990 to 2021
$3.8M
Exploiting Enzyme Plasticity in Drug Discovery: application to glutamate racemaseR01GM097373 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · PI SPIES, MICHAEL ASHLEY · 2012 to 2020
$2.7M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM097373NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008365
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The caspase family of cysteine proteases are highly sought-after drug targets owing to their essential roles in apoptosis, proliferation, and inflammation pathways. High-throughput screening efforts to discover inhibitors have gained little traction. Fragment-based screening has emerged as a powerful approach for the discovery of innovative drug leads. This method has become a central facet of drug discovery campaigns in the pharmaceutical industry and academia. A fragment-based drug discovery campaign against human caspase-7 resulted in the discovery of a novel series of allosteric inhibitors. An X-ray crystal structure of caspase-7 bound to a fragment hit and a thorough kinetic characterization of a zymogenic form of the enzyme were used to investigate the allosteric mechanism of inhibition. This work further advances our understanding of the mechanisms of allosteric control of this class of pharmaceutically relevant enzymes, and provides a new path forward for drug discovery efforts.

Indexed as

Allosteric RegulationApoptosisCaspase 7Catalytic DomainCrystallography, X-RayDrug DiscoveryHumansIsotopesKineticsSolventsSurface Plasmon ResonanceCASP7 protein, humanCaspase 7IsotopesSolventsallosteryapoptosiscaspasesdrug discoveryenzyme catalysis

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PMID28940929
PMCPMC5698726

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