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J Med Chem
; 62(13): 6377-6390, 2019 07 11.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-31187989
ABSTRACT
Boronic acids have attracted the attention of synthetic and medicinal chemists due to boron's ability to modulate enzyme function. Recently, we demonstrated that boron-containing amphoteric building blocks facilitate the discovery of bioactive aminoboronic acids. Herein, we have augmented this capability with a de novo library design and a virtual screening platform modified for covalent ligands. This technique has allowed us to rapidly design and identify a series of α-aminoboronic acids as the first inhibitors of human ClpXP, which is responsible for the degradation of misfolded proteins.