ABSTRACT
This review will cover the entire hit identification process performed with biocompatible, aqueous solvated, poly[ethylene glycol] (PEG) based resins - from synthesis, through screening, to analysis. The different types of resins (including their preparation) will be discussed and compared individually. Examples of one-bead-one-compound substrate libraries will be presented, as will one-bead-two-compounds libraries used for the discovery of enzyme inhibitors. The review includes a section covering organic and bio-organic reactions performed on all-PEG resins and discusses on-bead screening of the libraries with biomolecules. Finally, analysis of compounds on single beads, either via investigation by on-bead NMR or by ladder-coding of the combinatorial compound is covered. In general, the review will focus on chemistry, libraries, synthesis, screening, and analysis, using all-PEG based resins.
Subject(s)
Combinatorial Chemistry Techniques , Protease Inhibitors/chemical synthesis , Resins, Synthetic/chemical synthesis , Drug Evaluation, Preclinical/methods , Enzyme Inhibitors/chemical synthesis , Enzyme Inhibitors/pharmacology , Microspheres , Polyethylene Glycols , Protease Inhibitors/pharmacology , Resins, Synthetic/chemistryABSTRACT
A one-bead-two-compound inhibitor library was synthesized by the split-mix method for the identification of inhibitors of a recombinant cysteine protease from Leishmania mexicana, CPB2.8DeltaCTE. The inhibitor library was composed of octapeptides with a centrally located reduced bond introduced by reductive amination of the resin-bound amines with Fmoc amino aldehydes. The library was screened on solid phase, and less than 1% of the library contained active compounds. The inhibitors displayed great specificity in the subsites flanking the enzyme catalytic triad with Cha and Ile/Leu preferred in P(2), Phe in P(1), Cha and Ile/Leu in P(1)', and Ile/Leu in P(2)'. Some of the inhibitors were resynthesized, and the kinetics of inhibition were determined in solution-phase assays. Most of the inhibitors had micromolar K(i) values, and a few inhibited the enzyme at nanomolar concentrations. One inhibitor, DKHF(CH(2)NH)LLVK (K(i) = 1 microm), was tested for antiparasite efficacy and shown to affect parasite survival with an IC(50) of approximately 50 microm.
Subject(s)
Cysteine Proteinase Inhibitors/chemical synthesis , Leishmania mexicana/enzymology , Oligopeptides/chemical synthesis , Amination , Animals , Combinatorial Chemistry Techniques , Cysteine Proteinase Inhibitors/chemistry , Cysteine Proteinase Inhibitors/pharmacology , Drug Evaluation, Preclinical , In Vitro Techniques , Macrophages/drug effects , Macrophages/parasitology , Mice , Mice, Inbred BALB C , Models, Molecular , Oligopeptides/chemistry , Oligopeptides/pharmacology , Oxidation-Reduction , Polyethylene Glycols , Recombinant Proteins/antagonists & inhibitors , Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization , Structure-Activity RelationshipABSTRACT
Combinatorial chemistry was first applied to the generation of peptide arrays in 1984. Since then, the field of combinatorial chemistry has evolved rapidly into a new discipline. There is a great need for the development of methods to examine the proteome functionally at a global level. Using many of the techniques and instruments developed for DNA microarrays, chemical microarray methods have advanced significantly in the past three years. High-density chemical microarrays can now be synthesized in situ on glass slides or be printed through covalent linkage or non-specific adsorption to the surface of the solid-support with fully automatic arrayers. Microfabrication methods enable one to generate arrays of microsensors at the end of optical fibers or arrays of microwells on a flat surface. In conjunction with the one-bead one-compound combinatorial library method, chemical microarrays have proven to be very useful in lead identification and optimization. High-throughput protein expression systems, robust high-density protein, peptide and small-molecule microarray systems, and automatic mass spectrometers are critical tools for the field of functional proteomics.
