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ArticleScientific reports2019

Modular Protein Ligation: A New Paradigm as a Reagent Platform for Pre-Clinical Drug Discovery.

Rosalie Matico, Lawrence M Szewczuk, Beth Pietrak, Stephanie Chen, Ed Dul, William G Bonnette, Derrick W Meinhold, Geoffrey Quinque, Rachel Totoritis, Tia Lewis and 7 more

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Article in Scientific reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

17 authors.

Rosalie MaticoJanssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson and Johnson, 1400 McKean Rd., Springhouse, Pa, 19477, USA.
Lawrence M SzewczukJanssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson and Johnson, 1400 McKean Rd., Springhouse, Pa, 19477, USA.
Beth PietrakJanssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson and Johnson, 1400 McKean Rd., Springhouse, Pa, 19477, USA.
Stephanie ChenGlaxoSmithKline, 1250S Collegeville Rd., Collegeville, Pa, 19426, USA.
Ed DulGlaxoSmithKline, 1250S Collegeville Rd., Collegeville, Pa, 19426, USA.
William G BonnetteJanssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson and Johnson, 1400 McKean Rd., Springhouse, Pa, 19477, USA.
Derrick W MeinholdGlaxoSmithKline, 1250S Collegeville Rd., Collegeville, Pa, 19426, USA.
Geoffrey QuinqueGlaxoSmithKline, 1250S Collegeville Rd., Collegeville, Pa, 19426, USA.
Rachel TotoritisGlaxoSmithKline, 1250S Collegeville Rd., Collegeville, Pa, 19426, USA.
Tia LewisGlaxoSmithKline, 1250S Collegeville Rd., Collegeville, Pa, 19426, USA.
Maggie GrimesGlaxoSmithKline, 1250S Collegeville Rd., Collegeville, Pa, 19426, USA.
Daniel FornwaldJanssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson and Johnson, 1400 McKean Rd., Springhouse, Pa, 19477, USA.
Patricia M McCormickGlaxoSmithKline, 1250S Collegeville Rd., Collegeville, Pa, 19426, USA.
Michael SchaberJanssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson and Johnson, 1400 McKean Rd., Springhouse, Pa, 19477, USA.
Yong JiangGlaxoSmithKline, 1250S Collegeville Rd., Collegeville, Pa, 19426, USA.
Randy BledsoeGlaxoSmithKline, 1250S Collegeville Rd., Collegeville, Pa, 19426, USA.
Marc A HolbertGlaxoSmithKline, 1250S Collegeville Rd., Collegeville, Pa, 19426, USA. marc.a.holbert@gsk.com.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Significant resource is spent by drug discovery project teams to generate numerous, yet unique target constructs for the multiple platforms used to drive drug discovery programs including: functional assays, biophysical studies, structural biology, and biochemical high throughput screening campaigns. To improve this process, we developed Modular Protein Ligation (MPL), a combinatorial reagent platform utilizing Expressed Protein Ligation to site-specifically label proteins at the C-terminus with a variety of cysteine-lysine dipeptide conjugates. Historically, such proteins have been chemically labeled non-specifically through surface amino acids. To demonstrate the feasibility of this approach, we first applied MPL to proteins of varying size in different target classes using different recombinant protein expression systems, which were then evaluated in several different downstream assays. A key advantage to the implementation of this paradigm is that one construct can generate multiple final products, significantly streamlining the reagent generation for multiple early drug discovery project teams.

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AnimalsDrug DiscoveryFeasibility StudiesHumansLigandsMiceModels, MolecularProtein ConformationProteinsLigandsProteins

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PMID31511536
PMCPMC6739470

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