A medium-firm drug-candidate library of cryptand-like structures on T7 phage: design and selection of a strong binder for Hsp90

Org Biomol Chem. 2021 Jan 6;19(1):146-150. doi: 10.1039/d0ob01855d.

Abstract

We designed and synthesized a medium-firm drug-candidate library of cryptand-like structures possessing a randomized peptide linker on the bacteriophage T7. From the macrocyclic library with a 109 diversity, we obtained a binder toward a cancer-related protein (Hsp90) with an antibody-like strong affinity (KD = 62 nM) and the binding was driven by the enthalpy. The selected supramolecular ligand inhibited Hsp90 activity by site-specific binding outside of the well-known ATP-binding pocket on the N-terminal domain (NTD).

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Bacteriophage T7 / chemistry*
  • Binding Sites
  • Drug Design*
  • Ethers, Cyclic / chemistry*
  • Ethers, Cyclic / metabolism*
  • HSP90 Heat-Shock Proteins / metabolism*
  • Schiff Bases / chemistry*
  • Schiff Bases / metabolism*
  • Small Molecule Libraries / chemistry*
  • Small Molecule Libraries / metabolism*

Substances

  • Ethers, Cyclic
  • HSP90 Heat-Shock Proteins
  • Schiff Bases
  • Small Molecule Libraries
  • cryptand