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ArticleJournal of medicinal chemistry2023

Robust Strategy for Hit-to-Lead Discovery: NMR for SAR.

Sacha T Larda, Yann Ayotte, Maria M Denk, Paul Coote, Gregory Heffron, David Bendahan, Fatma Shahout, Nicolas Girard, Mustapha Iddir, Patricia Bouchard and 4 more

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Article in Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Sacha T LardaNMX Research and Solutions Inc., Laval H7V 5B7, Canada.
Yann AyotteNMX Research and Solutions Inc., Laval H7V 5B7, Canada.
Maria M DenkNMX Research and Solutions Inc., Laval H7V 5B7, Canada.
Paul CooteNMX Research and Solutions Inc., Laval H7V 5B7, Canada.
Gregory HeffronNMX Research and Solutions Inc., Laval H7V 5B7, Canada.
David BendahanINRS - Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, Laval H7V 1B7, Canada.
Fatma ShahoutINRS - Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, Laval H7V 1B7, Canada.
Nicolas GirardNMX Research and Solutions Inc., Laval H7V 5B7, Canada.
Mustapha IddirINRS - Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, Laval H7V 1B7, Canada.
Patricia BouchardNMX Research and Solutions Inc., Laval H7V 5B7, Canada.
Francois BilodeauNMX Research and Solutions Inc., Laval H7V 5B7, Canada.
Simon WooNMX Research and Solutions Inc., Laval H7V 5B7, Canada.
Luc J FarmerNMX Research and Solutions Inc., Laval H7V 5B7, Canada.
Steven R LaPlanteNMX Research and Solutions Inc., Laval H7V 5B7, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-2835-5789

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Establishing robust structure-activity relationships (SARs) is key to successful drug discovery campaigns, yet it often remains elusive due to screening and hit validation artifacts (false positives and false negatives), which frequently result in unproductive downstream expenditures of time and resources. To address this issue, we developed an integrative biophysics-driven strategy that expedites hit-to-lead discovery, mitigates false positives/negatives and common hit validation errors, and provides a robust approach to obtaining accurate binding and affinity measurements. The advantage of this method is that it vastly improves the clarity and reproducibility for affinity-driven SAR by monitoring and eliminating confounding factors. We demonstrate the ease at which high-quality micromolar binders can be generated from the initial millimolar fragment screening hits against an "undruggable" protein target, HRas.

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Drug DiscoveryMagnetic Resonance ImagingMagnetic Resonance SpectroscopyReproducibility of ResultsStructure-Activity Relationship

Identifiers

PMID37732695
PMCPMC10578354

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