Balancing focused combinatorial libraries based on multiple GPCR ligands |
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Authors: | Farhad Soltanshahi Tamsin E Mansley Sun Choi Robert D Clark |
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Institution: | (1) Informatics Research Center, Tripos, Inc., 1699 S. Hanley Road, St Louis, MO 63144, USA;(2) Present address: College of Pharmacy and Division of Molecular Life Sciences, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, 120-750, South Korea |
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Abstract: | G-Protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) are important targets for drug discovery, and combinatorial chemistry is an important tool for pharmaceutical development. The absence of detailed structural information, however, limits the kinds of combinatorial design techniques that can be applied to GPCR targets. This is particularly problematic given the current emphasis on focused combinatorial libraries. By linking an incremental construction method (OptDesign) to the very fast shape-matching capability of ChemSpace, we have created an efficient method for designing targeted sublibraries that are topomerically similar to known actives. Multi-objective scoring allows consideration of multiple queries (actives) simultaneously. This can lead to a distribution of products skewed towards one particular query structure, however, particularly when the ligands of interest are quite dissimilar to one another. A novel pivoting technique is described which makes it possible to generate promising designs even under those circumstances. The approach is illustrated by application to some serotonergic agonists and chemokine antagonists. |
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Keywords: | ChemSpace Combinatorial library Library design Multi-objective scoring OptDesign Pareto ranking |
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