Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

Construction of a synthetic methodology-based library and its application in identifying a GIT/PIX protein–protein interaction inhibitor

  • Jing Gu,
  • Rui-Kun Peng,
  • Chun-Ling Guo,
  • Meng Zhang,
  • Jie Yang,
  • Xiao Yan,
  • Qian Zhou,
  • Hongwei Li,
  • Na Wang,
  • Jinwei Zhu,
  • Qin Ouyang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34598-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Chemical libraries with skeleton diversity are important for drug discovery. Here, the authors establish a synthetic methodology-based compound library (SMBL), and apply it to identify a small-molecule inhibitor to interrupt a challenging target: the protein–protein interaction (PPI) of GIT1/β-Pix.