文摘
Biophysical fragment screening of a thermostabilized 尾1-adrenergic receptor (尾1AR) using surface plasmon resonance (SPR) enabled the identification of moderate affinity, high ligand efficiency (LE) arylpiperazine hits 7 and 8. Subsequent hit to lead follow-up confirmed the activity of the chemotype, and a structure-based design approach using protein鈥搇igand crystal structures of the 尾1AR resulted in the identification of several fragments that bound with higher affinity, including indole 19 and quinoline 20. In the first example of GPCR crystallography with ligands derived from fragment screening, structures of the stabilized 尾1AR complexed with 19 and 20 were determined at resolutions of 2.8 and 2.7 脜, respectively.