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| | Preface | XV |
| | A Personal Foreword | XVII |
| | List of Contributors | XXI |
| | Introduction Gerhard Müller and Hugo Kubinyi | 1 |
| | References | 4 |
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| I | General Aspects | 5 |
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| 1 | Target Family-directed Masterkeys in Chemogenomics Gerhard Müller | 7 |
| 1.1 | Introduction | 7 |
| 1.2 | Medicinal Chemistry-based Chemogenomics Approach | 15 |
| 1.3 | Densely Populated Target Families | 16 |
| 1.4 | Privileged Structures: A Brief Historical Assessment | 18 |
| 1.5 | Privileged Structures with Undesired Target Profiles | 19 |
| 1.6 | File Enrichment Strategies with Recurring Substructures | 21 |
| 1.7 | Recurring Structures Devoid of Target Family Correlations | 22 |
| 1.8 | Convergent Pharmacophores for Target-hopping | 27 |
| 1.9 | Target Family-directed Masterkey Concept | 31 |
| 1.10 | Conclusions and Perspective | 36 |
| | References | 38 |
| 2 | Drug Discovery from Side Effects Hugo Kubinyi | 43 |
| 2.1 | A Historical Perspective: The Great Time of Serendipitous Observations | 44 |
| 2.2 | Clinical Observations of Side Effects | 47 |
| 2.3 | Privileged Structures Bind to Many Different Targets | 51 |
| 2.4 | Optimizing the Selectivity of Nonselective Lead Structures | 55 |
| 2.5 | Selective Optimization of Side Activities | 59 |
| 2.6 | Summary and Conclusions | 65 |
| | References | 65 |
| 3 | The Value of Chemical Genetics in Drug Discovery Keith Russell and William F. Michne | 69 |
| 3.1 | Introduction | 69 |
| 3.2 | Knowledge Management in Drug Discovery | 70 |
| 3.3 | Knowledge Gaps, Their Importance, and How to Address Them | 71 |
| 3.4 | Target Validation: The Foundation of Drug Discovery | 72 |
| 3.5 | Chemical Genetics – How Chemistry Can Contribute to Target Identification and Validation | 72 |
| 3.6 | Integration of Chemistry and Biology: Importance and Issues | 75 |
| 3.7 | Finding New Chemical Tools and Leads | 75 |
| 3.8 | Is Biological Selectivity an Illusion? | 86 |
| 3.9 | Synthesis of Chemical Genetics Libraries: New Organic Synthesis Approaches to the Discovery of Biological Activity | 89 |
| 3.10 | Information and Knowledge Management Issues | 91 |
| 3.11 | Annotation of Small Molecules | 92 |
| 3.12 | Summary | 94 |
| | References | 94 |
| 4 | Structural Aspects of Binding Site Similarity: A 3D Upgrade for Chemogenomics Andreas Bergner and Judith Günther | 97 |
| 4.1 | Introduction | 97 |
| 4.1.1 | Binding Sites: The Missing Link | 97 |
| 4.1.2 | Target Assessment | 98 |
| 4.1.3 | Lead Finding | 99 |
| 4.1.4 | Lead Optimization | 100 |
| 4.2 | Structural Biology of Binding Sites | 101 |
| 4.2.1 | Energetic, Thermodynamic, and Electrostatic Aspects | 102 |
| 4.2.2 | Functional Aspects | 104 |
| 4.2.3 | Specificity versus Function | 105 |
| 4.2.4 | Evolutionary Aspects | 105 |
| 4.3 | Methods for Identifying Binding Sites | 106 |
| 4.3.1 | Integrated Methods for the Prediction of Binding Sites | 106 |
| 4.3.2 | Sampling the Protein Surface | 107 |
| 4.4 | Methods for Detecting Binding Site Similarity | 107 |
| 4.4.1 | Searches for Specific Structural Motifs | 108 |
| 4.4.2 | General Methods for Searching Similar Structural Motifs | 108 |
| 4.4.3 | Similar Shape and Property Searches | 111 |
| 4.5 | Applications of Binding Site Analyses and Comparisons in Drug Design | 114 |
| 4.5.1 | Protein Kinases and Protein Phosphatases as Drug Targets | 114 |
| 4.5.2 | Relationships of Fold, Function, and Sequence Similarities | 115 |
| 4.5.3 | Druggability | 117 |
| 4.5.4 | Relationship between Ligand Similarity and Binding Site Similarity | 118 |
| 4.5.5 | Selectivity Issues | 120 |
| 4.5.6 | Caveats | 123 |
| 4.5.7 | Protein Flexibility | 124 |
| 4.5.8 | Ambiguities in Atom Type Assignment | 125 |
| 4.5.9 | Versatility of Interaction Types | 127 |
| 4.5.10 | Crystallographic Packing Effects | 128 |
| 4.6 | Summary and Outlook | 129 |
| | References | 132 |
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| II | Target Families | 137 |
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| 5 | The Contribution of Molecular Informatics to Chemogenomics. Knowledge-based Discovery of Biological Targets and Chemical Lead Compounds Edgar Jacoby, Ansgar Schuffenhauer, and Pierre Acklin | 139 |
| 5.1 | Introduction | 140 |
| 5.2 | Molecular Information Systems for Targets and Ligands | 141 |
| 5.3 | Bioinformatics Discovery of Target Subfamilies with Conserved Molecular Recognition | 145 |
| 5.4 | Cheminformatics Discovery of Potential Ligands of Target Subfamilies with Conserved Molecular Recognition | 149 |
| 5.5 | Knowledge-based Combinatorial Library Design Strategies within Homogenous Target Subfamilies | 155 |
| 5.6 | Conclusions | 161 |
| | References | 162 |
| 6 | Chemical Kinomics Bert M. Klebl, Henrik Daub, and György Kéri | 167 |
| 6.1 | Introduction | 167 |
| 6.2 | Chemical Biology: The Hope | 169 |
| 6.3 | Chemical Kinomics: A Target Gene Family Approach in Chemical Biology | 169 |
| 6.3.1 | Protein Kinase Inhibitor History | 171 |
| 6.3.2 | Chemical Kinomics: An Amenable Approach | 172 |
| 6.3.2.1 | Examples of Traditional Chemical Genomics Using Kinase Inhibitors | 172 |
| 6.3.2.2 | Forward Chemical Genomics Using a Kinase-biased Compound Library | 174 |
| 6.3.2.3 | Chemical Validation | 174 |
| 6.3.3 | Orthogonal Chemical Genetics | 176 |
| 6.3.3.1 | ASKAs: Analog-sensitive Kinase Alleles | 176 |
| 6.3.3.2 | Cohen’s Inhibitor-insensitive p38 Mutants | 178 |
| 6.3.3.3 | Active Inhibitor-insensitive Kinase Mutants (Orthogonal Protein Kinases) | 179 |
| 6.3.4 | Chemical Proteomics for Kinases: KinaTorTM | 182 |
| 6.4 | Conclusions | 187 |
| | References | 188 |
| 7 | Structural Aspects of Kinases and Their Inhibitors Rogier Buijsman | 191 |
| 7.1 | Introduction | 191 |
| 7.2 | Structural Aspects of Kinases | 194 |
| 7.2.1 | The General Structure of an Activated Kinase | 194 |
| 7.2.2 | Kinase Activation | 197 |
| 7.3 | Kinase Inhibition Principles | 198 |
| 7.3.1 | Substrate-competitive Inhibitors | 198 |
| 7.3.2 | ATP-competitive Inhibitors | 200 |
| 7.3.3 | Activation Inhibitors/Allosteric Modulators | 200 |
| 7.3.4 | Irreversible Inhibitors | 203 |
| 7.4 | Structural Aspects of Kinase Inhibitors | 205 |
| 7.4.1 | Kinase Inhibitor Scaffolds | 205 |
| 7.4.2 | Selectivity Issues | 212 |
| 7.4.2.1 | The Selectivity Dogma | 212 |
| 7.4.2.2 | The Gatekeeper | 212 |
| 7.4.2.3 | Hinge-directed Selectivity | 214 |
| 7.4.2.4 | Binding Region II-directed Selectivity | 215 |
| 7.5 | Outlook | 216 |
| | References | 216 |
| 8 | A Chemical Genomics Approach for Ion Channel Modulators Karl-Heinz Baringhaus and Gerhard Hessler | 221 |
| 8.1 | Introduction | 221 |
| 8.2 | Structural Information on Ion Channels: Ion Channel Families | 223 |
| 8.3 | Lead-finding Strategies for Ion Channel Modulators | 227 |
| 8.3.1 | Ligand-based Lead Finding | 228 |
| 8.3.2 | Structure-based Lead Finding | 230 |
| 8.4 | Design of Ion Channel Focused Libraries: Chemical Genomics | 233 |
| 8.4.1 | Design Principles | 233 |
| 8.4.2 | Example: Building the Aventis Ion Channel Library | 236 |
| 8.5 | Conclusions | 239 |
| | References | 240 |
| 9 | Phosphodiesterase Inhibitors: A Chemogenomic View Martin Hendrix and Christopher Kallus | 243 |
| 9.1 | Introduction | 243 |
| 9.2 | PDE Isoenzymes and Subtypes | 244 |
| 9.3 | Potential Therapeutic Applications of PDE Inhibitors | 247 |
| 9.4 | Nonspecific PDE Inhibitors | 247 |
| 9.5 | Inhibitors of the cGMP-specific PDE5 and PDE6 | 249 |
| 9.5.1 | Substrate-analogous PDE5 Inhibitors | 249 |
| 9.5.2 | Inhibitors Carrying a Chloromethoxybenzyl Substituent | 253 |
| 9.5.3 | Indole-type PDE5 Inhibitors | 255 |
| 9.6 | PDE6 Inhibitors | 258 |
| 9.7 | Inhibitors of cAMP-metabolizing PDE4 and PDE3 | 259 |
| 9.7.1 | Dual PDE4/3 Inhibitors | 268 |
| 9.7.2 | PDE3 Inhibitors | 269 |
| 9.8 | Inhibitors of Other Phosphodiesterases | 272 |
| 9.8.1 | PDE1 | 272 |
| 9.8.2 | PDE2 | 275 |
| 9.8.3 | PDE7 | 277 |
| 9.8.4 | Recently Discovered PDEs 8–11 | 278 |
| 9.9 | Summary: A Chemogenomic View of PDE Inhibitors | 280 |
| | References | 281 |
| 10 | Proteochemometrics: A Tool for Modeling the Molecular Interaction Space Jarl E. S. Wikberg, Maris Lapinsh, and Peteris Prusis | 289 |
| 10.1 | Introduction | 289 |
| 10.2 | Definition and Principles of Proteochemometrics | 290 |
| 10.3 | Modeling and Interpretation of Interaction Space | 292 |
| 10.4 | Examples of Proteochemometric Modeling | 295 |
| 10.4.1 | Proteochemometric Modeling of Chimeric MC Receptors Interacting with MSH Peptides | 295 |
| 10.4.2 | Proteochemometric Modeling of ?1 Adrenoceptors Using z Scale Descriptors for Amino Acids | 296 |
| 10.4.3 | Proteochemometric Modeling Using Wild-type Amine GPCRs | 298 |
| 10.4.4 | Interaction of Organic Compounds with Melanocortin Receptor Subtypes | 302 |
| 10.4.5 | Modeling of Interactions between ‘Proprietary Drug-like Compounds’ and ‘Proprietary Proteins’ | 302 |
| 10.5 | Large-scale Proteochemometrics | 303 |
| | References | 307 |
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| III | Chemical Libraries | 311 |
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| 11 | Some Principles Related to Chemogenomics in Compound Library and Template Design for GPCRs Thomas R. Webb | 313 |
| 11.1 | Introduction | 313 |
| 11.2 | Diverse Libraries versus Targeted Libraries | 314 |
| 11.3 | Design of Targeted Libraries via Ligand-based Design | 315 |
| 11.4 | Ligand-based Template Design for GPCR-targeted Libraries | 315 |
| | References | 320 |
| 12 | Computational Filters in Lead Generation: Targeting Druglike Chemotypes Wolfgang Guba and Olivier Roche | 325 |
| 12.1 | Introduction | 325 |
| 12.2 | Hard Filters | 326 |
| 12.2.1 | Reducing the Number of False Positive Hits | 326 |
| 12.2.2 | Lead-likeness, Drug-likeness | 327 |
| 12.3 | Soft Filters | 329 |
| 12.3.1 | Prediction of Physicochemical Properties | 329 |
| 12.3.2 | Prediction of ADME and Toxicity Properties | 330 |
| 12.4 | Prioritization of Chemotypes Based on Multivariate Profiling | 331 |
| 12.5 | Concluding Remarks | 334 |
| | References | 337 |
| 13 | Navigation in Chemical Space: Ligandbased Design of Focused Compound Libraries Gisbert Schneider and Petra Schneider | 341 |
| 13.1 | Defining Reference and Target | 342 |
| 13.2 | A Straightforward Approach: Similarity Searching | 346 |
| 13.3 | Fuzzy Pharmacophore Models | 355 |
| 13.4 | Fast Binary Classifiers for Library Shaping | 358 |
| 13.4.1 | Artificial Neural Networks | 360 |
| 13.4.2 | Support Vector Machines | 361 |
| 13.4.3 | An Important Step: Data Scaling | 362 |
| 13.4.4 | Application to Library Design | 362 |
| 13.5 | Mapping Chemical Space by Self-organizing Maps: A Pharmacophore Road Map | 366 |
| 13.6 | Concluding Remarks | 371 |
| | References | 372 |
| 14 | Natural Product-derived Compound Libraries and Protein Structure Similarity as Guiding Principles for the Discovery of Drug Candidates Marcus A. Koch and Herbert Waldmann | 377 |
| 14.1 | Introduction | 377 |
| 14.2 | Protein Folds and Protein Function | 378 |
| 14.3 | Implications for Library Design: Nature’s Structural Conservatism and Diversity | 379 |
| 14.4 | Development of Natural Product-based Inhibitors for Enzymes Belonging to the Same Family | 381 |
| 14.4.1 | Nakijiquinone Derivatives as Selective Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors | 381 |
| 14.4.2 | Dysidiolide Derivatives as Cdc25 Phosphatase Inhibitors | 383 |
| 14.5 | Development of Natural Product-based Small-molecule Binders to Proteins with Low Sequence Homology yet Exhibiting the Same Fold | 386 |
| 14.5.1 | Development of Leukotriene A4 Hydrolase Inhibitors | 386 |
| 14.5.2 | Development of Sulfotransferase Inhibitors | 389 |
| 14.5.3 | Development of Nuclear Hormone Receptor Modulators | 393 |
| 14.6 | Conclusion: A New Guiding Principle for Chemical Genomics? | 399 |
| | References | 401 |
| 15 | Combinatorial Chemistry in the Age of Chemical Genomics Reni Joseph and Prabhat Arya | 405 |
| 15.1 | Introduction | 405 |
| 15.2 | Combinatorial Approaches to Natural Product Analogs | 406 |
| 15.3 | Diversity-oriented Synthesis of Natural-product-like Libraries | 418 |
| 15.4 | Conclusions | 430 |
| | References | 430 |
| | Index | 433 |