Repurposing Suzuki Coupling Reagents as a Directed Fragment Library Targeting Serine Hydrolases and Related Enzymes.
Lanier, M., Cole, D.C., Istratiy, Y., Klein, M.G., Schwartz, P.A., Tjhen, R., Jennings, A., Hixon, M.S.(2017) J Med Chem 60: 5209-5215
- PubMed: 28564542 
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jmedchem.6b01224
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5INH - PubMed Abstract: 
Serine hydrolases are susceptible to potent reversible inhibition by boronic acids. Large collections of chemically diverse boronic acid fragments are commercially available because of their utility in coupling chemistry. We repurposed the approximately 650 boronic acid reagents in our collection as a directed fragment library targeting serine hydrolases and related enzymes. Highly efficient hits (LE > 0.6) often result. The utility of the approach is illustrated with the results against autotaxin, a phospholipase implicated in cardiovascular disease.
Organizational Affiliation: 
Medicinal Chemistry - Gastrointestinal Drug Discovery Unit, ‡Structural Biology & Biophysics, §Modeling & Simulation-Global DMPK, Gastrointestinal Drug Discovery Unit, Takeda California, Inc. , 10410 Science Center Drive, San Diego, California 92121, United States.