ETH, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
NexMR GmbH, Wiesenstrasse 10A, 8952 Schlieren, Switzerland.
J Am Chem Soc. 2023 Jun 7;145(22):12066-12080. doi: 10.1021/jacs.3c01392. Epub 2023 May 25.
While nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is regarded as a reference in fragment-based drug design, its implementation in a high-throughput manner is limited by its lack of sensitivity resulting in long acquisition times and high micromolar sample concentrations. Several hyperpolarization approaches could, in principle, improve the sensitivity of NMR also in drug research. However, photochemically induced dynamic nuclear polarization (photo-CIDNP) is the only method that is directly applicable in aqueous solution and agile for scalable implementation using off-the-shelf hardware. With the use of photo-CIDNP, this work demonstrates the detection of weak binders in the millimolar affinity range using low micromolar concentrations down to 5 μM of ligand and 2 μM of target, thereby exploiting the photo-CIDNP-induced polarization twice: (i) increasing the signal-to-noise by one to two orders in magnitude and (ii) polarization-only of the free non-bound molecule allowing identification of binding by polarization quenching, yielding another factor of hundred in time when compared with standard techniques. The interaction detection was performed with single-scan NMR experiments of a duration of 2 to 5 s. Taking advantage of the readiness of photo-CIDNP setup implementation, an automated flow-through platform was designed to screen samples at a screening rate of 1500 samples per day. Furthermore, a 212 compounds photo-CIDNP fragment library is presented, opening an avenue toward a comprehensive fragment-based screening method.
虽然核磁共振(NMR)被认为是基于片段的药物设计的参考方法,但由于灵敏度不足,导致采集时间长和微摩尔级样品浓度高,其在高通量中的应用受到限制。几种超极化方法原则上可以提高 NMR 在药物研究中的灵敏度。然而,光诱导动态核极化(photo-CIDNP)是唯一一种可直接应用于水溶液且可灵活使用现成硬件进行可扩展实施的方法。本工作使用 photo-CIDNP 展示了使用低微摩尔浓度(低至 5 μM 的配体和 2 μM 的靶标)在毫摩尔亲和力范围内检测弱结合物的能力,从而两次利用了 photo-CIDNP 诱导的极化:(i) 将信号与噪声比提高一到两个数量级,以及 (ii) 仅对自由未结合分子进行极化,通过极化猝灭识别结合,与标准技术相比,时间上提高了一百倍。通过持续时间为 2 至 5 秒的单次扫描 NMR 实验进行相互作用检测。利用 photo-CIDNP 设备实施的便利性,设计了一个自动化的流通式平台,每天可筛选 1500 个样本。此外,还展示了一个 212 个化合物的 photo-CIDNP 片段文库,为全面的基于片段的筛选方法开辟了一条途径。
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