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ArticleNature communications2021

Natural product fragment combination to performance-diverse pseudo-natural products.

Michael Grigalunas, Annina Burhop, Sarah Zinken, Axel Pahl, José-Manuel Gally, Niklas Wild, Yannik Mantel, Sonja Sievers, Daniel J Foley, Rebecca Scheel and 3 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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13 authors.

Michael GrigalunasDepartment of Chemical Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0419-8168
Annina Burhop *Department of Chemical Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany.
Sarah Zinken *Department of Chemical Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany.
Axel PahlDepartment of Chemical Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany.
José-Manuel GallyDepartment of Chemical Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany.
Niklas WildDepartment of Chemical Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany.
Yannik MantelDepartment of Chemical Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany.
Sonja SieversDepartment of Chemical Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany.
Daniel J FoleyDepartment of Chemical Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-6221-3333
Rebecca ScheelTechnical University Dortmund, Faculty of Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry, Dortmund, Germany.
Carsten StrohmannTechnical University Dortmund, Faculty of Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry, Dortmund, Germany.
Andrey P AntonchickDepartment of Chemical Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0435-9443
Herbert WaldmannDepartment of Chemical Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany. herbert.waldmann@mpi-dortmund.mpg.de.ORCID 0000-0002-9606-7247

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Natural product structure and fragment-based compound development inspire pseudo-natural product design through different combinations of a given natural product fragment set to compound classes expected to be chemically and biologically diverse. We describe the synthetic combination of the fragment-sized natural products quinine, quinidine, sinomenine, and griseofulvin with chromanone or indole-containing fragments to provide a 244-member pseudo-natural product collection. Cheminformatic analyses reveal that the resulting eight pseudo-natural product classes are chemically diverse and share both drug- and natural product-like properties. Unbiased biological evaluation by cell painting demonstrates that bioactivity of pseudo-natural products, guiding natural products, and fragments differ and that combination of different fragments dominates establishment of unique bioactivity. Identification of phenotypic fragment dominance enables design of compound classes with correctly predicted bioactivity. The results demonstrate that fusion of natural product fragments in different combinations and arrangements can provide chemically and biologically diverse pseudo-natural product classes for wider exploration of biologically relevant chemical space.

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Biological ProductsCheminformaticsChromonesDrug DiscoveryGriseofulvinIndolesMorphinansQuinidineQuinineSmall Molecule Libraries4-chromanoneBiological ProductsChromonesGriseofulvinindoleIndolesMorphinansQuinidineQuininesinomenineSmall Molecule Libraries

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PMCPMC7994817

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