Investigation of the incidence of “undesirable” molecular moieties for high-throughput screening compound libraries in marketed drug compounds

2009 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 1128-1134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Axerio-Cilies ◽  
Ivan P. Castañeda ◽  
Amin Mirza ◽  
Jóhannes Reynisson
Keyword(s):  
High Throughput ◽  
High Throughput Screening ◽  
Compound Libraries ◽  
Drug Compounds

scholarly journals A Fully Automated High-Throughput Flow Cytometry Screening System Enabling Phenotypic Drug Discovery

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (7) ◽  
pp. 697-707 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Joslin ◽  
James Gilligan ◽  
Paul Anderson ◽  
Catherine Garcia ◽  
Orzala Sharif ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Flow Cytometry ◽  
Drug Discovery ◽  
High Throughput ◽  
High Throughput Screening ◽  
Screening System ◽  
Preclinical Development ◽  
Drug Identification ◽  
Therapeutic Setting ◽  
Compound Libraries ◽  
Automated Platform

The goal of high-throughput screening is to enable screening of compound libraries in an automated manner to identify quality starting points for optimization. This often involves screening a large diversity of compounds in an assay that preserves a connection to the disease pathology. Phenotypic screening is a powerful tool for drug identification, in that assays can be run without prior understanding of the target and with primary cells that closely mimic the therapeutic setting. Advanced automation and high-content imaging have enabled many complex assays, but these are still relatively slow and low throughput. To address this limitation, we have developed an automated workflow that is dedicated to processing complex phenotypic assays for flow cytometry. The system can achieve a throughput of 50,000 wells per day, resulting in a fully automated platform that enables robust phenotypic drug discovery. Over the past 5 years, this screening system has been used for a variety of drug discovery programs, across many disease areas, with many molecules advancing quickly into preclinical development and into the clinic. This report will highlight a diversity of approaches that automated flow cytometry has enabled for phenotypic drug discovery.

scholarly journals Drug discovery from Nature: automated high-quality sample preparation

2000 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 149-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralf Thiericke
Keyword(s):  
Drug Discovery ◽  
Sample Preparation ◽  
High Throughput ◽  
High Throughput Screening ◽  
Solid Phase ◽  
Structural Diversity ◽  
Synthetic Compound ◽  
Natural Origin ◽  
Screening Programs ◽  
Compound Libraries

Secondary metabolites from plants, animals and microorganisms have been proven to be an outstanding source for new and innovative drugs and show a striking structural diversity that supplements chemically synthesized compounds or libraries in drug discovery programs. Unfortunately, extracts from natural sources are usually complex mixtures of compounds:: often generated in time consuming and for the most part manual processes. As quality and quantity of the provided samples play a pivotal role in the success of high-throughput screening programs this poses serious problems. In order to make samples of natural origin competitive with synthetic compound libraries, we devised a novel, automated sample preparation procedure based on solid-phase extraction (SPE). By making use of a modified Zymark RapidTrace®SPE workstation an easy-to-handle and effective fractionation method has been developed which allows the generation of highquality samples from natural origin, fulfilling the requirements of an integration into high-throughput screening programs.

scholarly journals Multidimensional Profiling of CSF1R Screening Hits and Inhibitors

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (9) ◽  
pp. 1007-1017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joost C. M. Uitdehaag ◽  
Cecile M. Sünnen ◽  
Antoon M. van Doornmalen ◽  
Nikki de Rouw ◽  
Arthur Oubrie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Throughput ◽  
High Throughput Screening ◽  
Active Form ◽  
Dissociation Rate ◽  
The Past ◽  
Compound Libraries ◽  
Competitive Kinetics ◽  
Homogeneous Assay ◽  
High Throughput Assay ◽  
Stimulating Factor

Over the past years, improvements in high-throughput screening (HTS) technology and compound libraries have resulted in a dramatic increase in the amounts of good-quality screening hits, and there is a growing need for follow-on hit profiling assays with medium throughput to further triage hits. Here the authors present such assays for the colony-stimulating factor 1 receptor (CSF1R, Fms), including tests for cellular activity and a homogeneous assay to measure affinity for inactive CSF1R. They also present a high-throughput assay to measure target residence time, which is based on competitive binding kinetics. To better fit koff rates, they present a modified mathematical model for competitive kinetics. In all assays, they profiled eight reference inhibitors (imatinib, sorafenib, sunitinib, tandutinib, dasatinib, GW2580, Ki20227, and J&J’s pyrido[2,3-d]pyrimidin-5-one). Using the known biochemical selectivities of these inhibitors, which can be quantified using metrics such as the selectivity entropy, the authors have determined which assay readout best predicts hit selectivity. Their profiling shows surprisingly that imatinib has a preference for the active form of CSF1R and that Ki20227 has an unusually slow target dissociation rate. This confirms that follow-on hit profiling is essential to ensure that the best hits are selected for lead optimization.

scholarly journals High-Density Miniaturized Thermal Shift Assays as a General Strategy for Drug Discovery

2001 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 429-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael W. Pantoliano ◽  
Eugene C. Petrella ◽  
Joseph D. Kwasnoski ◽  
Victor S. Lobanov ◽  
James Myslik ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Drug Discovery ◽  
Ligand Binding ◽  
High Throughput ◽  
High Throughput Screening ◽  
Screening Strategy ◽  
General Strategy ◽  
General Applicability ◽  
High Throughput Drug Screening ◽  
Compound Libraries ◽  
Thermal Shift

More general and universally applicable drug discovery assay technologies are needed in order to keep pace with the recent advances in combinatorial chemistry and genomics-based target generation. Ligand-induced conformational stabilization of proteins is a well-understood phenomenon in which substrates, inhibitors, cofactors, and even other proteins provide enhanced stability to proteins on binding. This phenomenon is based on the energetic coupling of the ligand-binding and protein-melting reactions. In an attempt to harness these biophysical properties for drug discovery, fully automated instrumentation was designed and implemented to perform miniaturized fluorescence-based thermal shift assays in a microplate format for the high throughput screening of compound libraries. Validation of this process and instrumentation was achieved by investigating ligand binding to more than 100 protein targets. The general applicability of the thermal shift screening strategy was found to be an important advantage because it circumvents the need to design and retool new assays with each new therapeutic target. Moreover, the miniaturized thermal shift assay methodology does not require any prior knowledge of a therapeutic target's function, making it ideally suited for the quantitative high throughput drug screening and evaluation of targets derived from genomics.

High-Throughput Screening with HyperCyt® Flow Cytometry to Detect Small Molecule Formylpeptide Receptor Ligands

2005 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 374-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan M. Young ◽  
Cristian Bologa ◽  
Eric R. Prossnitz ◽  
Tudor I. Oprea ◽  
Larry A. Sklar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Flow Cytometry ◽  
High Throughput ◽  
High Throughput Screening ◽  
Receptor Ligands ◽  
Chemical Library ◽  
Assay Sensitivity ◽  
Compound Libraries ◽  
Analysis System ◽  
G Protein Coupled ◽  
Formylpeptide Receptor

High-throughput flow cytometry (HTFC), enabled by faster automated sample processing, represents a promising high- content approach for compound library screening. HyperCyt® is a recently developed automated HTFC analysis system by which cell samples are rapidly aspirated from microplate wells and delivered to the flow cytometer. The formylpeptide receptor (FPR) family of G protein–coupled receptors contributes to the localization and activation of tissue-damaging leukocytes at sites of chronic inflammation. Here, the authors describe development and application of an HTFC screening approach to detect potential anti-inflammatory compounds that block ligand binding to FPR. Using a homogeneous no-wash assay, samples were routinely processed at 1.5 s/well (~2500 cells analyzed/sample), allowing a 96-well plate to be processed in less than 2.5 min. Assay sensitivity and accuracy were validated by detection of a previously documented active compound with relatively low FPR affinity (sulfinpyrazone, inhibition constant [Ki]=14 μM) from among a collection of 880 compounds in the Prestwick Chemical Library. The HyperCyt® system was therefore demonstrated to be a robust, sensitive, and highly quantitative method with which to screen lead compound libraries in a 96-well format.

scholarly journals High-throughput screening of PLGA thin films utilizing hydrophobic fluorescent dyes for hydrophobic drug compounds

2011 ◽  
Vol 100 (10) ◽  
pp. 4317-4329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry W.J. Steele ◽  
Charlotte L. Huang ◽  
Saranya Kumar ◽  
Effendi Widjaja ◽  
Freddy Yin Chiang Boey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thin Films ◽  
High Throughput ◽  
High Throughput Screening ◽  
Fluorescent Dyes ◽  
Hydrophobic Drug ◽  
Drug Compounds

scholarly journals A Cell-Based Ultra-High-Throughput Screening Assay for Identifying Inhibitors of D-Amino Acid Oxidase

2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 481-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip E. Brandish ◽  
Chi-Sung Chiu ◽  
Jonathan Schneeweis ◽  
Nicholas J. Brandon ◽  
Clare L. Leech ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Amino Acid ◽  
High Throughput ◽  
High Throughput Screening ◽  
Hormone Receptors ◽  
Chinese Hamster ◽  
Acid Oxidase ◽  
Amino Acid Oxidase ◽  
Compound Libraries ◽  
High Throughput Screening Assay ◽  
Artificial Environment

Enzymes are often considered less “druggable” targets than ligand-regulated proteins such as G-protein-coupled receptors, ion channels, or other hormone receptors. Reasons for this include cellular location (intracellular vs. cell surface), typically lower affinities for the binding of small molecules compared to ligand-specific receptors, and binding (catalytic) sites that are often charged or highly polar. A practical drawback to the discovery of compounds targeting enzymes is that screening of compound libraries is typically carried out in cell-free activity assays using purified protein in an inherently artificial environment. Cell-based assays, although often arduous to design for enzyme targets, are the preferred discovery tool for the screening of large compound libraries. The authors have recently described a novel cell-based approach to screening for inhibitors of a phosphatase enzyme and now report on the development and implementation of a homogeneous 3456-well plate assay for D-amino acid oxidase (DAO). Human DAO was stably expressed in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells, and its activity was measured as the amount of hydrogen peroxide detected in the growth medium following feeding the cells with D-serine. In less than 12 weeks, the authors proved the concept in 96-and then 384-well formats, miniaturized the assay to the 3456-well (nanoplate) scale, and screened a library containing more than 1 million compounds. They have identified several cell-permeable inhibitors of DAO from this cell-based high-throughput screening, which provided the discovery program with a few novel and attractive lead structures.

Solution-Based Indirect Affinity Selection Mass Spectrometry—A General Tool For High-Throughput Screening Of Pharmaceutical Compound Libraries

2014 ◽  
Vol 86 (15) ◽  
pp. 7413-7420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas N. O’Connell ◽  
Jason Ramsay ◽  
Steven F. Rieth ◽  
Michael J. Shapiro ◽  
Justin G. Stroh
Keyword(s):  
Mass Spectrometry ◽  
High Throughput ◽  
High Throughput Screening ◽  
Affinity Selection ◽  
Pharmaceutical Compound ◽  
Compound Libraries ◽  
General Tool
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