Title
Effective screening strategy using ensembled pharmacophore models combined with cascade docking: application to p53-MDM2 interaction inhibitors.
Abstract
Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) play a crucial role in cellular function and form the backbone of almost all biochemical processes. In recent years, protein-protein interaction inhibitors (PPIIs) have represented a treasure trove of potential new drug targets. Unfortunately, there are few successful drugs of PPIIs on the market. Structure-based pharmacophore (SBP) combined with docking has been demonstrated as a useful Virtual Screening (VS) strategy in drug development projects. However, the combination of target complexity and poor binding affinity prediction has thwarted the application of this strategy in the discovery of PPIIs. Here we report an effective VS strategy on p53-MDM2 PPI. First, we built a SBP model based on p53-MDM2 complex cocrystal structures. The model was then simplified by using a Receptor-Ligand complex-based pharmacophore model considering the critical binding features between MDM2 and its small molecular inhibitors. Cascade docking was subsequently applied to improve the hit rate. Based on this strategy, we performed VS on NCI and SPECS databases and successfully discovered 6 novel compounds from 15 hits with the best, compound 1 (NSC 5359), K-i = 180 +/- 50 nM. These compounds can serve as lead compounds for further optimization.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1021/ci400348f
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL INFORMATION AND MODELING
DocType
Volume
Issue
Journal
53
10
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1549-9596
3
0.55
References 
Authors
9
13
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xin Xue142.31
Jinlian Wei2513.29
Li-Li Xu330.89
Mei-Yang Xi430.55
Xiao-Li Xu530.55
Fang Liu640.90
Xiaoke Guo740.90
Lei Wang825328.37
Xiaojin Zhang941.58
Mingye Zhang1051.21
Meng-Chen Lu1130.89
Haopeng Sun1241.24
Qidong You1341.24