PMID: 21459573

Authors:

Erlanson DA, Arndt JW, Cancilla MT, Cao K, Elling RA, English N, Friedman J, Hansen SK, Hession C, Joseph I, Kumaravel G, Lee WC, Lind KE, McDowell RS, Miatkowski K, Nguyen C, Nguyen TB, Park S, Pathan N, Penny DM, Romanowski MJ, Scott D, Silvian L, Simmons RL, Tangonan BT, Yang W, Sun L

Title:

Discovery of a potent and highly selective PDK1 inhibitor via fragment-based drug discovery.

Journal:

Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2011 Mar 17.

Abstract:

We report the use of a fragment-based lead discovery method, Tethering with extenders, to discover a pyridinone fragment that binds in an adaptive site of the protein PDK1. With subsequent medicinal chemistry, this led to the discovery of a potent and highly selective inhibitor of PDK1, which binds in the 'DFG-out' conformation.