Key Highlights

  • Carterra Ultra® offers the enhanced speed and sensitivity necessary to support Fragment Based Lead Discovery (FBLD).
  • Ultra’s large ligand array allows for many targets, off targets, mutants, and multiple species to be measured in parallel; a 100-fold enhancement over other SPR systems.
  • Utilize ready-made panels of biotinylated-proteins to standardize the assay parameters so you can move directly to finding hits and drive your medicinal chemistry programs.

Introduction

Fragment-Based Lead Discovery (FBLD) has emerged as a core approach to early-stage hit finding in drug discovery programs1. This form of drug discovery is distinguished by the screening of libraries of very small chemical compounds (heavy atom count < 17), that bind with low-affinity (double digit micromolar to millimolar KD) to therapeutic targets. Screening small compounds allows for an efficient sampling of the chemical space relevant to medicinal chemistry. The identified binders, in concert with X-ray co-crystal or cryo-electron microscopy structures, serve to provide a map of how chemical matter can interact efficiently with the targets.

Posted by Anthony M. Giannetti, PhD

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