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ArticleNature chemistry2018

Second-generation DNA-templated macrocycle libraries for the discovery of bioactive small molecules.

Dmitry L Usanov, Alix I Chan, Juan Pablo Maianti, David R Liu

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Article in Nature chemistry, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 79 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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79 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Dmitry L UsanovMerkin Institute of Transformative Technologies in Healthcare, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3030-2918
Alix I ChanMerkin Institute of Transformative Technologies in Healthcare, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2698-4031
Juan Pablo MaiantiMerkin Institute of Transformative Technologies in Healthcare, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
David R LiuMerkin Institute of Transformative Technologies in Healthcare, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA. drliu@fas.harvard.edu.

Funding

Integrating Chemistry and Evolution to Illuminate Biology and Enable Novel TherapeuticsR35GM118062 · NIGMS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI LIU, DAVID R · 2016 to 2025
$6.4M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM118062
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

DNA-encoded libraries have emerged as a widely used resource for the discovery of bioactive small molecules, and offer substantial advantages compared with conventional small-molecule libraries. Here, we have developed and streamlined multiple fundamental aspects of DNA-encoded and DNA-templated library synthesis methodology, including computational identification and experimental validation of a 20 × 20 × 20 × 80 set of orthogonal codons, chemical and computational tools for enhancing the structural diversity and drug-likeness of library members, a highly efficient polymerase-mediated template library assembly strategy, and library isolation and purification methods. We have integrated these improved methods to produce a second-generation DNA-templated library of 256,000 small-molecule macrocycles with improved drug-like physical properties. In vitro selection of this library for insulin-degrading enzyme affinity resulted in novel insulin-degrading enzyme inhibitors, including one of unusual potency and novel macrocycle stereochemistry (IC

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Templates, GeneticCodonDNAMacrocyclic CompoundsSmall Molecule LibrariesStereoisomerismCodonDNAMacrocyclic CompoundsSmall Molecule Libraries

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PMID29610462
PMCPMC6014893

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