Evaluation of a focused virtual library of heterobifunctional ligands for Clostridium difficile toxins

Org Biomol Chem. 2015 Jan 7;13(1):283-98. doi: 10.1039/c4ob01838a.

Abstract

A focused library of virtual heterobifunctional ligands was generated in silico and a set of ligands with recombined fragments was synthesized and evaluated for binding to Clostridium difficile toxins. The position of the trisaccharide fragment was used as a reference for filtering docked poses during virtual screening to match the trisaccharide ligand in a crystal structure. The peptoid, a diversity fragment probing the protein surface area adjacent to a known binding site, was generated by a multi-component Ugi reaction. Our approach combines modular fragment-based design with in silico screening of synthetically feasible compounds and lays the groundwork for future efforts in development of composite bifunctional ligands for large clostridial toxins.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Bacterial Proteins / chemistry
  • Bacterial Proteins / metabolism
  • Binding Sites
  • Carbohydrate Metabolism
  • Clostridioides difficile*
  • Combinatorial Chemistry Techniques
  • Computer Simulation*
  • Crystallography, X-Ray
  • Ligands
  • Models, Molecular
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Protein Conformation
  • Small Molecule Libraries / metabolism*
  • Toxins, Biological / chemistry
  • Toxins, Biological / metabolism*

Substances

  • Bacterial Proteins
  • Ligands
  • Small Molecule Libraries
  • Toxins, Biological