从组合化学肽库中筛选亲和配基

在亲和色谱研究中 ,建立适合于某种分离对象的亲和色谱体系的关键是寻找适合的亲和配基 .小肽亲和配基具有性质稳定、合成简单、价格低及生物相容性好等特点[1] ,但这类配基也存在着亲和力弱或选择性低的缺点 .因此 ,如何寻找小肽配基以及如何提高小肽配基的亲和力和选择性的问题引起了人们的关注与重视 [1～ 3 ] .组合化学法是一种快速制备大量相关或同类化合物的革新性的方法 [4 ] ,组合肽库包括噬菌体展示肽库和合成肽库 ,这两类肽库均可用于小肽配基的筛选与优化 [1,5] .组合化学法尽管有效 ,但以小肽为目的物进行筛选时 ,往往因肽 -肽…     

组合化学、分子库与新药研究

组合化学是进入90 年代以来寻找及优化新药先导化合物的主要研究方法, 其特点是改变了传统的逐一合成、逐一纯化、逐一筛选的模式, 而是以合成和筛选化学库的形式完成寻找及优化药物先导化合物, 极大地加快了药物先导化合物出现的速度。本文就目前有关组合化学研究的基本理论、基本方法、发展趋势、研究成果以及我国应当采取的措施进行了综述。     

亲和色谱法筛选中药中血管紧张素转化酶抑制剂

以壳聚糖微球为载体、戊二醛（glutaraldehyde,GA）为交联剂对血管紧张素转化酶（Angiotensin converting enzyme,ACE）进行固定化．用固化的ACE作为亲和介质,利用血管紧张素转化酶抑制剂（Angiotensin convertingenzym einhibitor,ACEI）与ACE之间的亲和作用,结合高效液相色谱对亲和前后的体系进行检测,比较两者各组分色谱峰的差异,以此实现快速筛选复杂体系中的ACE抑制剂．应用赖诺普利（Lisinopril）、九肽抑制剂、依那普利（Enalapril）、培哚普利（Perindopril）、卡托普利（Captopril）等已上市的ACEI对方法进行验证,反映方法具有高度选择性．将方法应用于中药地龙及山楂筛选,发现共有5个组分与ACE有亲和作用,并且都能抑制ACE酶活性,它们对酶活性抑制的IC50值在0．45～4．62μg／mL范围．通过对亲和方法重现性考察,6次测定的相对标准偏差小于1％,说明方法可靠．提出的亲和色谱．色谱指纹差异法非常适合于从中药及天然产物等复杂混合物库中快速筛选靶点活性物质．     

化合物库的组合技巧和组合合成

从化合物库的组合技巧和组合合成方法两个方面探讨了组合化学及其在药物开发中的应用。     

组合化学——合成化学领域的一次革命

组合化学是近十几年逐渐发展成熟起来的一个学科,它从根本上改变了化学家、生物学家以及相关学科研究人员的思维和研究方式,对科学的发展产生了革命性的影响。组合化学从创立起就与工业应用紧密联系在一起,它带动了包括新药发明和新材料研制在内的一系列高新科技产业的发展。下面简述了组合化学的起源与发展、研究方法及其对相关学科的影响和技术前景。     

利用化学指示剂在多相催化反应中进行高通量筛选

 介绍了一种简单的组合化学技术,该技术利用催化反应中产物或反应物导致的化学指示剂的颜色变化快速地指示反应进程. 选用甲基橙为指示剂,分子筛为催化剂,考察了不同反应条件下羧酸的酯化反应,并用气相色谱和高效液相色谱分析方法对实验结果进行验证. 结果表明,利用化学指示剂进行的高通量颜色筛选结果与色谱检测结果很好地吻合,该方法具有简单和高效的特点,可应用于对化学指示剂敏感的反应.     

化学多样性空间探索与组合药物设计

本文综述组合化学的最新进展, 内容涵盖组合化学的基本概念、原理、技术, 在药物发现中的应用, 以及组合化学和其他科学技术分枝的关系。最后, 提出了组合化学工程中亟须研究的一些项目, 介绍了开展这些研究所必需的条件, 并给出了解决方案。     

Autocrine‐Based Selection of Drugs That Target Ion Channels from Combinatorial Venom Peptide Libraries

Animal venoms represent a rich source of pharmacologically active peptides that interact with ion channels. However, a challenge to discovering drugs remains because of the slow pace at which venom peptides are discovered and refined. An efficient autocrine‐based high‐throughput selection system was developed to discover and refine venom peptides that target ion channels. The utility of this system was demonstrated by the discovery of novel Kv1.3 channel blockers from a natural venom peptide library that was formatted for autocrine‐based selection. We also engineered a Kv1.3 blocker peptide (ShK) derived from sea anemone to generate a subtype‐selective Kv1.3 blocker with a long half‐life in vivo.     

Affinity Capillary Electrophoresis: From Binding Measurement to Combinatorial Library Screening

Affinity capillary electrophoresis is a new procedure for receptor-ligand binding studies. Since its introduction in the early 1990s, this method has proved valuable in chiral separation of racemates, the measurement of binding constants, the estimation of kinetic rate constants, the determination of stoichiometries, the investigation of electrostatic interactions, the estimation of effective charges and molecular weights of biomolecules, the characterization of enzymatic catalysis, and, most recently, combinatorial library screening in solutions. This technique demands small amounts of samples, involves no radiolabeled materials or chemically immobilized ligands, and does not require changes in spectroscopic characteristics upon binding. This paper reviews the most recent applications of affinity capillary electrophoresis in binding measurement and combinatorial library screening.     

Selection of DNA‐Encoded Small Molecule Libraries Against Unmodified and Non‐Immobilized Protein Targets

The selection of DNA‐encoded libraries against biological targets has become an important discovery method in chemical biology and drug discovery, but the requirement of modified and immobilized targets remains a significant disadvantage. With a terminal protection strategy and ligand‐induced photo‐crosslinking, we show that iterated selections of DNA‐encoded libraries can be realized with unmodified and non‐immobilized protein targets.     

Affinity Chromatography-Based Assays for the Screening of Potential Ligands Selective for G-Quadruplex Structures

DNA G-quadruplexes (G4s) are key structures for the development of targeted anticancer therapies. In this context, ligands selectively interacting with G4s can represent valuable anticancer drugs. Aiming at speeding up the identification of G4-targeting synthetic or natural compounds, we developed an affinity chromatography-based assay, named G-quadruplex on Oligo Affinity Support (G4-OAS), by synthesizing G4-forming sequences on commercially available polystyrene OAS. Then, due to unspecific binding of several hydrophobic ligands on nude OAS, we moved to Controlled Pore Glass (CPG). We thus conceived an ad hoc functionalized, universal support on which both the on-support elongation and deprotection of the G4-forming oligonucleotides can be performed, along with the successive affinity chromatography-based assay, renamed as G-quadruplex on Controlled Pore Glass (G4-CPG) assay. Here we describe these assays and their applications to the screening of several libraries of chemically different putative G4 ligands. Finally, ongoing studies and outlook of our G4-CPG assay are reported.