Encoded combinatorial chemistry: Synthesis and screening of a library of highly functionalized pyrrolidines

AUTOR(ES)

Maclean, Derek

FONTE

The National Academy of Sciences of the USA

RESUMO

The application of a new encoding technology for drug discovery is described. A combinatorial library of mercaptoacyl pyrrolidines has been prepared on a beaded polymeric support. Each polymer bead carries one library constituent in association with an oligomeric “tag,” the structure of which is a record of the specific reagents from which that library member was prepared. After the ligands were solubilized, an array of such beads was screened for angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitory activity, and the structures of active pyrrolidines were deduced by analysis of the associated tags at sub-picomole levels. Several extremely potent enzyme inhibitors were identified, many from multiple beads. The most potent inhibitor was found to have a Ki of 160 pM, ≈3-fold more active than captopril in the same assay. Direct comparison with iterative deconvolution shows that the encoded screening strategy is a much more efficient means for extracting information from such compound collections, producing more data on a larger number of active structures.

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