This webinar preview will begin to discuss the use of ligand-observe NMR techniques for fragment screening of Influenza and Ebola viral targets for drug discovery.
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Webinar Overview
• Background on Beryllium
– Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease
collaboration
– Fragment screening
• Fragments of Life library
• Screening methodologies
• Case Studies
– Influenza A
– Filoviridae Targets (Ebola, Marburg)
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About Beryllium
• Founded in 1998 as Emerald Biostructures
– deCODE biostructures 2000-2008; Emerald Bio 2009-2014
– Name change to Beryllium 2014
• Contract research focused on structural biology
– Bainbridge Island, WA (X-ray crystallography, 500 MHz NMR)
– Bedford, MA (protein expression/purification, 700 MHz NMR)
700 MHz NMR in BedfordX-ray generator in Bainbridge Is.
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Fragment Screening Concept
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Drug-like HtS hit
mw 350-450
IC50 ~1 mM
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Albert, JS; Fragment-based Lead Discovery in “Modern Approaches to Lead Discovery” Wiley Publications, 2010, 105
Optimized candidate
IC50 0.01 mM
Fragment hit
mw 150-250
IC50 ~1000 mM
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Optimized candidate
IC50 0.01 mM
Use of small fragments allows reasonable sampling of chemical space with ~103
molecules
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Saturation Transfer Difference (STD) NMR
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Off Resonance Io
(Ligand Reference Spectrum)
On resonance Isat
(Saturated Spectrum)
Difference Spectrum
Selective
Saturation
Io - Isat =
• “Ligand-observe” screening
• No upper limit on protein target size
• No isotopic labeling required
• Short data acquisition time
• False positive rate high—orthogonal
methods (X-ray) for confirmation
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• Viral polymerases are proven
drug targets (HIV-RT, HCV)
• Influenza virus RNA-dependent
RNA polymerase is a
heterotrimeric protein complex
– Polymerase acidic (PA) protein
– 2 Polymerase basic proteins (PB1
and PB2)
• SSGCID structures of isolated
PA-C-terminal domain showed
conformational flexibility at PB1
peptide binding domain—
possible target for SBDD
Influenza Viral Polymerase
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Fragment Hits vs. Influenza A PA-CTD
• Expected many of the hits to bind to the PB1 binding site (which is a hot
spot for in silico binding and conformational change)
• Series of chlorophenyl compounds bind to a surface site distal from the
PB1 binding site.
– Site is located in close proximity to the viral RNA (vRNA) loading site and a
species specific differential loop.
PB1
binding
pocket
Fragment
binding
site
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