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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2020

Discovery of Lysine-Targeted eIF4E Inhibitors through Covalent Docking.

Xiaobo Wan, Tangpo Yang, Adolfo Cuesta, Xiaming Pang, Trent E Balius, John J Irwin, Brian K Shoichet, Jack Taunton

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers.

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46citing papers in PubMed
4.9field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

46 citing papers in PubMed, 106 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Tangpo Yang
Xiaming Pang
Trent E Balius
University of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

MEDICAL SCIENTIST TRAINING PROGRAMT32GM007618 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI ANDERSON, MARK S · 1985 to 2020
$29.6M
Development and Testing of New Computational Methods for Ligand Discovery and MechanismR35GM122481 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI Brian K Shoichet · 2017 to 2026
$8.5M
RESEARCH TRAINING IN CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGYT32GM064337 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI CRAIK, CHARLES SCOTT · 2002 to 2021
$7.8M
Developing chemoproteomic probes for studying protein chaperones in cancerF31CA214028 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI CUESTA, ADOLFO · 2017 to 2018
$85k
NCI NIH HHS F31 CA214028NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM122481NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007618NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM064337
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4E (eIF4E) binds the m7GTP cap structure at the 5'-end of mRNAs, stimulating the translation of proteins implicated in cancer cell growth and metastasis. eIF4E is a notoriously challenging target, and most of the reported inhibitors are negatively charged guanine analogues with negligible cell permeability. To overcome these challenges, we envisioned a covalent targeting strategy. As there are no cysteines near the eIF4E cap binding site, we developed a covalent docking approach focused on lysine. Taking advantage of a "make-on-demand" virtual library, we used covalent docking to identify arylsulfonyl fluorides that target a noncatalytic lysine (Lys162) in eIF4E. Guided by cocrystal structures, we elaborated arylsulfonyl fluoride

Indexed as

Binding SitesDrug DiscoveryEukaryotic Initiation Factor-4EHEK293 CellsHumansLysineMolecular Docking SimulationProtein BindingSulfonamidesEIF4E protein, humanEukaryotic Initiation Factor-4ELysineSulfonamides

Identifiers

PMID32105459
PMCPMC7136196
OpenAlexW2980628492

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