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ArticleMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2025

A New Protein-Ligand Trapping System to Rapidly Screen and Discover Small-Molecule Inhibitors of PD-L1 from Natural Products.

Yazhuo Huang, Senfeng Sun, Runxin Yin, Zongtao Lin, Daidong Wang, Wanwan Wang, Xiangyu Fu, Jing Wang, Xinyu Lei, Mimi Sun and 2 more

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Article in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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12 authors.

Yazhuo HuangSchool of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China.
Senfeng SunSchool of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China.
Runxin YinSchool of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China.
Zongtao LinDepartment of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6017-338X
Daidong WangSchool of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China.
Wanwan WangSchool of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China.
Xiangyu FuSchool of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China.
Jing WangSchool of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China.ORCID 0000-0001-8369-7453
Xinyu LeiSchool of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China.
Mimi SunSchool of Pharmacy, Shanxi University of Chinese Medicine, Xianyang 712046, China.
Shizhong ChenSchool of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China.
Hong WangSchool of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China.

Funding

the National Key R&D Program of China No.2019YFC1712303the National Natural Science Foundation of China No. 81872834
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chinese herbal medicines have played a significant role in the development of new and effective drugs, but how to identify the active ingredients from complex extracts of traditional Chinese herbal medicines was a research difficulty. In recent years, few studies have focused on high-efficiency identification of small-molecule inhibitors of Programmed Death Ligand 1 with lower antigenicity and flexible structure tunability. In order to identify small molecule inhibitors of PD-L1 from complex Chinese herbal extracts, this study established a protein-ligand trapping system based on high-performance liquid chromatography coupled with a photo-diode array detector, ion trap/quadrupole time-of-flight tandem mass spectrometry, and a Programmed Death Ligand 1 affinity chromatography unit (ACPD-L1-HPLC-PDA-IT-TOF (Q-TOF)-MS) to rapidly screen and identify small-molecule inhibitors of Programmed Death Ligand 1 from

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B7-H1 AntigenBiological ProductsImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsSmall Molecule LibrariesCell Line, TumorChromatography, High Pressure LiquidDrug DiscoveryDrugs, Chinese HerbalHumansLigandsTandem Mass SpectrometryB7-H1 AntigenBiological ProductsCD274 protein, humanDrugs, Chinese HerbalImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsLigandsSmall Molecule LibrariesChinese herbal medicinesinhibitorsprotein–ligand trapping (PLT) system

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PMID40333811
PMCPMC12029895

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