Identification of CXCR3 receptor agonists in combinatorial small-molecule libraries |
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Authors: | Stroke Ilana L Cole Andrew G Simhadri Srilatha Brescia Marc-Raleigh Desai Madhuri Zhang Joan J Merritt J Robert Appell Kenneth C Henderson Ian Webb Maria L |
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Institution: | Pharmacopeia Drug Discovery, Inc., P.O. Box 5350, Princeton, NJ 08543, USA. ilana@pcop.com |
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Abstract: | In a high-throughput screen of four million compounds from combinatorial libraries for small-molecule modulators of the chemokine receptor CXCR3, two classes of receptor agonists, based on tetrahydroisoquinoline and piperidinyl diazepanone templates, were identified. Several of these compounds stimulated calcium flux in HEK293 cells expressing the recombinant human CXCR3 receptor with efficacies and kinetics similar to those of native ligand CXCL11/I-TAC and stimulated chemotaxis of activated human T-cells. The agonist small molecules also inhibited binding of another CXCR3 ligand, CXCL10/IP-10, to the receptor. The response to small-molecule agonists was inhibited by a CXCR3-specific small-molecule antagonist previously identified within the same combinatorial compound collection but structurally unrelated to the agonists. Remarkably, while other, non-amino acid substituents were present in the majority of the library compounds screened, the agonists from both classes contained a positively charged amino acid component, with preference for Arg>Lys, as well as a hydrophobic component. |
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Keywords: | CXCR3 Chemokine Combinatorial chemistry Calcium G protein-coupled receptor High-throughput screening Small molecule Agonist Chemotaxis |
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