Re: [ccp4bb] small molecule library

2009-10-28 Thread Flip Hoedemaeker
A company called ZoBio screens their 2,000 fragment library with NMR, 
cool technology. Don't know about €


www.zobio.com

Flip

Sridhar Prasad wrote:


Zenobia is a good place to look for, they can even customize it your needs.

www.*zenobiatherapeutics*.com

Sridhar

 
 > Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:41:22 +

 > From: hlsilves...@gmail.com
 > Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] small molecule library
 > To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
 >
 > You have several companies out there that sell that.
 >
 > You have
 > Enamine - large collection, good but$,
 > Maybridge - good but
 > Zenobia Inc - good, and not so 
 >
 > leo
 >
 > On 27 Oct 2009, at 14:58, c.weinert wrote:
 >
 > > Dear all.
 > >
 > > I am looking for a library of small (biologically relevant)
 > > compounds to test binding to a protein. Does somebody know, if there
 > > is a company that sells such a library for fragment based library
 > > screening? (to a reasonable price).
 > >
 > > And does anybody has experience with screening such libraries? I
 > > assume that one approach would be soaking the protein with the
 > > compounds, followed by SEC and MS analysis. Anybody tried directly
 > > soaking crystals followed by X-ray analysis?
 > >
 > > Thanks alot already in advance for your help.
 > >
 > > Sincerely,
 > > Christopher


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Re: [ccp4bb] small molecule library

2009-10-27 Thread Artem Evdokimov
Fragment based discovery is a fairly new but also fairly well established
technique. There is a difference between fragment screening and targeted
library screening, however notes below generally apply to both:

 

Libraries – depending on what you want to discover you should try to obtain
a targeted (fragment?) library of useful size – both in terms of each
molecule and in terms of number of molecules. In the best case scenario you
should be able to select a set of compounds that *you* (and your
chemi-informatics specialist) find attractive. This may not always be
possible. GRI (Cincinnati, Ohio) has a fairly good collection of compounds
that was inherited from P&G Pharmaceuticals and since then has been expanded
and pruned – they provide selection and compound service to academics and
industry folks alike… I have no special interest in them but I do know more
than a few people at that facility and can recommend a contact person on
request.

 

Screening – X-ray screening is doable although painful. If you can imagine
solving ~300 crystal structures of *the same protein* and not be sad when
298 structures come out empty – try it. Be prepared to write scripts for
data processing, solution, and refinement – and make sure that your beam
line of choice is equipped with a nice & fast robot for sample changing.
This method is ideally suitable for proteins that make reproducible, sturdy,
well-diffracting and readily soakable crystals. 

 

More common screening technologies include: biochemical assays, NMR, SPR,
X-ray induced fluorescense, fluorescense-replacement/quenching, and so
forth. Every technique has advantages and (usually serious!) drawbacks. For
weak binders confirmation is achieved via combination of two or more
techniques because each individual one may give noisy results (typical
compromise of HTS). You have to target techniques that can detect weak
binding if you want to discover fragments or imperfect ligands. If you’re
interested in finding tight binders and have a rough idea what set of
compounds you should be targeting – then methods need to be adjusted (for
instance commonly used NMR techniques are often not very good for compounds
that bind too tightly). Finding tight ligands is technically easier but is
less likely to succed for a ‘protein in general’ unless you happen to have a
reasonably characterized protein class and you’re looking for a specific
substrate or ligand out of a small group.

 

MS-based techniques for compound discovery can be tricky because various
compounds may or may not ‘fly’ depending on their nature and the
experimental conditions. I can recommend an expert in this if you contact me
directly. Subtractive MS is particularly tricky unless you couple it with
some other form of detection.

 

You’re entering a fascinating field where a huge set of options and
techniques is available. The trick is to find the right ones for the job. An
hour in the library saves a month of lab work (although this should now be
adjusted to the 21st century version: fifteen minutes online saves $5000
spent on a CRO).

 

Artem

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From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Jürgen
Bosch
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 10:53 PM
To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] small molecule library

 

Hi Christopher,

 

have a look at this paper and the references.

Using fragment cocktail crystallography to assist inhibitor design of
Trypanosoma brucei nucleoside 2-deoxyribosyltransferase. J Med Chem (2006)
vol. 49 (20) pp. 5939-46

 

The SEC after soaking is a bad idea, you will loose your fragment as it is
most likely a low micromolar binder. A better way to approach this is to use
a filtration device say with 3 kDa cutoff. Concentrate your protein +
ligands and in a separate tube just the ligands without protein. Then run
both samples over a mass spec and see if you can detect a specific decrease
in one or more of your ligands.

 

Jürgen

 

P.S. wasn't sure what you mean by biological relevant DeCode has a library
called Fragments of Life, otherwise Zenobia is not bad.

 

On Oct 27, 2009, at 10:58 AM, c.weinert wrote:





Dear all.

I am looking for a library of small (biologically relevant) compounds to
test binding to a protein. Does somebody know, if there is a company
that sells such a library for fragment based library screening? (to a
reasonable price).

And does anybody has experience with screening such libraries? I assume
that one approach would be soaking the protein with the compounds,
followed by SEC and MS analysis. Anybody tried directly soaking crystals
followed by X-ray analysis?

Thanks alot already in advance for your help.

Sincerely,
Christopher

 

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Jürgen Bosch

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute
615 North Wolfe Street, W8708
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: +1-410-614-4742
Lab:  +1-410-614-4894
Fax:  +1-

Re: [ccp4bb] small molecule library

2009-10-27 Thread Jürgen Bosch

Hi Christopher,

have a look at this paper and the references.
Using fragment cocktail crystallography to assist inhibitor design of  
Trypanosoma brucei nucleoside 2-deoxyribosyltransferase. J Med Chem  
(2006) vol. 49 (20) pp. 5939-46


The SEC after soaking is a bad idea, you will loose your fragment as  
it is most likely a low micromolar binder. A better way to approach  
this is to use a filtration device say with 3 kDa cutoff. Concentrate  
your protein + ligands and in a separate tube just the ligands without  
protein. Then run both samples over a mass spec and see if you can  
detect a specific decrease in one or more of your ligands.


Jürgen

P.S. wasn't sure what you mean by biological relevant DeCode has a  
library called Fragments of Life, otherwise Zenobia is not bad.


On Oct 27, 2009, at 10:58 AM, c.weinert wrote:


Dear all.

I am looking for a library of small (biologically relevant)  
compounds to

test binding to a protein. Does somebody know, if there is a company
that sells such a library for fragment based library screening? (to a
reasonable price).

And does anybody has experience with screening such libraries? I  
assume

that one approach would be soaking the protein with the compounds,
followed by SEC and MS analysis. Anybody tried directly soaking  
crystals

followed by X-ray analysis?

Thanks alot already in advance for your help.

Sincerely,
Christopher


-
Jürgen Bosch
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute
615 North Wolfe Street, W8708
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: +1-410-614-4742
Lab:  +1-410-614-4894
Fax:  +1-410-955-3655
http://web.mac.com/bosch_lab/



Re: [ccp4bb] small molecule library

2009-10-27 Thread Sridhar Prasad


Zenobia is a good place to look for, they can even customize it your needs.

www.zenobiatherapeutics.com

Sridhar

  
> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:41:22 +
> From: hlsilves...@gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] small molecule library
> To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> 
> You have several companies out there that sell that.
> 
> You have
> Enamine - large collection, good but$,
> Maybridge - good but
> Zenobia Inc - good, and not so  
> 
> leo
> 
> On 27 Oct 2009, at 14:58, c.weinert wrote:
> 
> > Dear all.
> >
> > I am looking for a library of small (biologically relevant)  
> > compounds to test binding to a protein. Does somebody know, if there  
> > is a company that sells such a library for fragment based library  
> > screening? (to a reasonable price).
> >
> > And does anybody has experience with screening such libraries? I  
> > assume that one approach would be soaking the protein with the  
> > compounds, followed by SEC and MS analysis. Anybody tried directly  
> > soaking crystals followed by X-ray analysis?
> >
> > Thanks alot already in advance for your help.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Christopher
  
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Re: [ccp4bb] small molecule library

2009-10-27 Thread Pascal Egea
I can suggest the following reading
Discovering novel ligands for macromolecules uisng X-ray crystallographic
screening
Nienaber VL et al, Nature Biotechnology vol 18 october 2000 pp1105



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Re: [ccp4bb] small molecule library

2009-10-27 Thread Hernani Silvestre

You have several companies out there that sell that.

You have
Enamine - large collection, good but$,
Maybridge - good but
Zenobia Inc - good, and not so  

leo

On 27 Oct 2009, at 14:58, c.weinert wrote:


Dear all.

I am looking for a library of small (biologically relevant)  
compounds to test binding to a protein. Does somebody know, if there  
is a company that sells such a library for fragment based library  
screening? (to a reasonable price).


And does anybody has experience with screening such libraries? I  
assume that one approach would be soaking the protein with the  
compounds, followed by SEC and MS analysis. Anybody tried directly  
soaking crystals followed by X-ray analysis?


Thanks alot already in advance for your help.

Sincerely,
Christopher


Re: [ccp4bb] small molecule library

2009-10-27 Thread Shao-Yang Ku

informahealthcare.com/doi/pdf/10.1517/17460441.1.1.1

Quoting c.weinert :


Dear all.

I am looking for a library of small (biologically relevant)  
compounds to test binding to a protein. Does somebody know, if there  
is a company that sells such a library for fragment based library  
screening? (to a reasonable price).


And does anybody has experience with screening such libraries? I  
assume that one approach would be soaking the protein with the  
compounds, followed by SEC and MS analysis. Anybody tried directly  
soaking crystals followed by X-ray analysis?


Thanks alot already in advance for your help.

Sincerely,
Christopher





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Re: [ccp4bb] small molecule library

2009-10-27 Thread Jurgen Bosch

Try Emerald, reasonable price, nö comment.
Jürgen

..
Jürgen Bosch
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute
615 North Wolfe Street, W8708
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: +1-410-614-4742
Lab:  +1-410-614-4894
Fax:  +1-410-955-3655
http://web.mac.com/bosch_lab/

On Oct 27, 2009, at 10:58, c.weinert  wrote:


Dear all.

I am looking for a library of small (biologically relevant)  
compounds to

test binding to a protein. Does somebody know, if there is a company
that sells such a library for fragment based library screening? (to a
reasonable price).

And does anybody has experience with screening such libraries? I  
assume

that one approach would be soaking the protein with the compounds,
followed by SEC and MS analysis. Anybody tried directly soaking  
crystals

followed by X-ray analysis?

Thanks alot already in advance for your help.

Sincerely,
Christopher


[ccp4bb] small molecule library

2009-10-27 Thread c.weinert

Dear all.

I am looking for a library of small (biologically relevant) compounds to 
test binding to a protein. Does somebody know, if there is a company 
that sells such a library for fragment based library screening? (to a 
reasonable price).


And does anybody has experience with screening such libraries? I assume 
that one approach would be soaking the protein with the compounds, 
followed by SEC and MS analysis. Anybody tried directly soaking crystals 
followed by X-ray analysis?


Thanks alot already in advance for your help.

Sincerely,
Christopher