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The Myc family of transcription factors is a well-established driver of human cancers. However, despite being amongst the most frequently mutated, translocated and overexpressed oncogenes, no therapy directly targeting the Myc family members has been developed to date. Abnormal activation of Myc results in uncontrolled cell growth that is associate...

Disclosed herein is a compound of formula I or pharmaceutically acceptable salts or stereoisomers thereof. Compounds of formula I wherein X1 is (un)branched C1-6 alkyl, C3-6 cycloalkyl, -C1-6 alkyl-C3-6 cycloalkyl, C6-10 aryl, 5- to 10-membered heteroaryl, etc.; X2 is H, C6-10 aryl, 5- to 10-membered heteroaryl, 5- to 10-membered heteroaryloxy, 4-...

Significance Blood vessels in the central nervous system possess unique barrier properties that prevent infiltration of foreign substances and allow for precise delivery of ions, molecules, and immune cells into neural networks. Barrier breakdown is associated with a host of retinal and neurological disorders but few BRB/BBB-enhancing therapies hav...

DNA encoded library screens have gained recent interest as they allow for screening of millions of small molecules in a simple manner, with the goal of providing novel chemical starting points in target-based hit identification. Despite this interest, no publication describes the physical properties, novelty, or structural diversity of molecules de...

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Significance Many medicinal chemistry programs change ligands incrementally to explore protein binding and to optimize binding affinity. How a protein accommodates such a growing ligand series has received remarkably little structural attention. Here we investigate eight congeneric ligands that grow by single-methylene additions, determining their...

Chemical probes that form a covalent bond with a protein target often show enhanced selectivity, potency and utility for biological studies. Despite these advantages, protein-reactive compounds are usually avoided in high-throughput screening campaigns. Here we describe a general method (DOCKovalent) for screening large virtual libraries of electro...

Most libraries for fragment-based drug discovery are restricted to 1,000 to 10,000 compounds, but over 700,000 fragments are commercially available and potentially accessible by virtual screening. Whether this larger set would increase chemotype coverage, and whether a computational screen can pragmatically prioritize them, is debated. To investiga...

N-[4-[2-propyn-1-yl[(6S)-4,6,7,8-tetrahydro-2-(hydroxymethyl)-4-oxo-3H-cyclopenta[g]quinazolin-6-yl]amino]benzoyl]-L-γ-glutamyl-D-glutamic acid 1 (BGC 945, now known as ONX 0801), is a small molecule thymidylate synthase (TS) inhibitor discovered at the Institute of Cancer Research in London. It is licensed by Onyx Pharmaceuticals and is in Phase 1...

Fragment-based design was used to guide derivatization of a lead series of β-lactamase inhibitors that had heretofore resisted optimization for in vivo activity. X-ray structures of fragments overlaid with the lead suggested new, unanticipated functionality and points of attachment. Synthesis of three derivatives improved affinity over 20-fold and...

Type 1 pili from uropathogenic Escherichia coli are filamentous, noncovalent protein complexes mediating bacterial adhesion to the host tissue. All structural pilus subunits are homologous proteins sharing an invariant disulfide bridge. Here we show that disulfide bond formation in the unfolded subunits, catalyzed by the periplasmic oxidoreductase...

The structure activity relationship (SAR) of sulfonamide boronic acid inhibitors, CR14 and CR157, were compared. CR14 and CR157 were synthesized, tested in enzyme activity assays for determination of Ki values, reacted with AmpC β–Lactamase and crystallized, while bound to AmpC, using vapor distillation methods. X-ray diffraction patterns were obta...

We investigated a series of sulfonamide boronic acids that resulted from the merging of two unrelated AmpC β-lactamase inhibitor series. The new boronic acids differed in the replacement of the canonical carboxamide, found in all penicillin and cephalosporin antibiotics, with a sulfonamide. Surprisingly, these sulfonamides had a highly distinct str...

Virtual and high-throughput screens (HTS) should have complementary strengths and weaknesses, but studies that prospectively and comprehensively compare them are rare. We undertook a parallel docking and HTS screen of 197861 compounds against cruzain, a thiol protease target for Chagas disease, looking for reversible, competitive inhibitors. On wor...

The preparation of the polyketide natural products anguinomycin C and D is reported based on key steps such as Negishi stereoinversion cross coupling, Jacobsen Cr(III)-catalyzed Hetero Diels-Alder reaction, Evans B-mediated syn-aldol chemistry, and B-alkyl Suzuki-Miyaura cross coupling. The configuration of both natural products was established as...

Adhesive type 1 pili from uropathogenic Escherichia coli strains are heat and denaturant resistant, filamentous protein complexes. Individual pilus subunits associate through "donor strand complementation," whereby the incomplete immunoglobulin-like fold of each subunit is completed by the N-terminal extension of a neighboring subunit. We show that...

Type 1 pili, anchored to the outer membrane protein FimD, enable uropathogenic Escherichia coli to attach to host cells. During pilus biogenesis, the N-terminal periplasmic domain of FimD (FimD(N)) binds complexes between the chaperone FimC and pilus subunits via its partly disordered N-terminal segment, as recently shown for the FimC-FimH(P)-FimD(...

Many pathogenic bacteria possess adhesive surface organelles (called pili), anchored to their outer membrane, which mediate the first step of infection by binding to host tissue. Pilus biogenesis occurs via the "chaperone-usher" pathway: the usher, a large outer membrane protein, binds complexes of a periplasmic chaperone with pilus subunits, unloa...

Type 1 pili are filamentous protein complexes that are anchored to the outer membrane of uropathogenic Escherichia coli and mediate bacterial adhesion to the surface of urinary epithelium cells. We review here the current status of structural and functional studies on the assembly of type 1 pili.

Adhesive type 1 pili from uropathogenic Escherichia coli are filamentous protein complexes that are attached to the assembly platform FimD in the outer membrane. During pilus assembly, FimD binds complexes between the chaperone FimC and type 1 pilus subunits in the periplasm and mediates subunit translocation to the cell surface. Here we report nuc...