State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201203, China.
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China.
Adv Sci (Weinh). 2024 Jul;11(26):e2400594. doi: 10.1002/advs.202400594. Epub 2024 Apr 30.
Proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) have emerged as a promising strategy for drug discovery and exploring protein functions, offering a revolutionary therapeutic modality. Currently, the predominant approach to PROTACs discovery mainly relies on an empirical design-synthesis-evaluation process involving numerous cycles of labor-intensive synthesis-purification and bioassay data collection. Therefore, the development of innovative methods to expedite PROTAC synthesis and exploration of chemical space remains highly desired. Here, a direct-to-biology strategy is reported to streamline the synthesis of PROTAC libraries on plates, enabling the seamless transfer of reaction products to cell-based bioassays without the need for additional purification. By integrating amide coupling and light-induced primary amines and o-nitrobenzyl alcohols cyclization (PANAC) photoclick chemistry into a plate-based synthetic process, this strategy produces PROTAC libraries with high efficiency and structural diversity. Moreover, by employing this platform for PROTACs screening, we smoothly found potent PROTACs effectively inhibit triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) cell growth and induce rapid, selective targeted degradation of cyclin-dependent kinase 9 (CDK9). The study introduces a versatile platform for assembling PROTACs on plates, followed by direct biological evaluation. This approach provides a promising opportunity for high-throughput synthesis of PROTAC libraries, thereby enhancing the efficiency of exploring chemical space and accelerating the discovery of PROTACs.
蛋白水解靶向嵌合体(PROTACs)作为一种有前途的药物发现和探索蛋白质功能的策略,提供了一种革命性的治疗模式。目前,PROTACs 发现的主要方法主要依赖于经验设计-合成-评估过程,涉及多次劳动密集型的合成-纯化和生物测定数据收集循环。因此,开发创新方法来加速 PROTAC 合成和探索化学空间仍然是非常需要的。在这里,报告了一种直接面向生物学的策略,以简化板上 PROTAC 文库的合成,无需额外的纯化即可将反应产物无缝转移到基于细胞的生物测定中。通过将酰胺偶联和光诱导的伯胺和邻硝基苄醇环化(PANAC)光点击化学集成到基于板的合成过程中,该策略以高效率和结构多样性产生 PROTAC 文库。此外,通过在该平台上进行 PROTAC 筛选,我们顺利地发现了有效的 PROTAC,能够有效抑制三阴性乳腺癌(TNBC)细胞的生长并诱导快速、选择性的靶向降解细胞周期蛋白依赖性激酶 9(CDK9)。该研究介绍了一种在板上组装 PROTAC 的多功能平台,随后进行直接的生物学评估。这种方法为 PROTAC 文库的高通量合成提供了一个有前途的机会,从而提高了探索化学空间的效率,并加速了 PROTAC 的发现。
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