Cribado de la actividad del sustrato: un método basado en fragmentos para la identificación rápida de inhibidores de

Warren J L Wood1, Andrew W Patterson, Hiroyuki Tsuruoka

  • 1Department of Chemistry, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

Resumen

Un nuevo método de detección de la actividad del sustrato (SAS) identifica y optimiza rápidamente los inhibidores de la proteasa no peptídicos. Este enfoque generó con éxito nuevos inhibidores de la catepsina S para la investigación de enfermedades autoinmunes.

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