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MDPI, Molecules, 14(24), p. 2590, 2019

DOI: 10.3390/molecules24142590

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Discovery of Immunoproteasome Inhibitors Using Large-Scale Covalent Virtual Screening

Journal article published in 2019 by Scarpino ORCID, Bajusz, Proj ORCID, Gobec, Sosič, Ferenczy, Keserű
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
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Abstract

Large-scale virtual screening of boronic acid derivatives was performed to identify nonpeptidic covalent inhibitors of the β5i subunit of the immunoproteasome. A hierarchical virtual screening cascade including noncovalent and covalent docking steps was applied to a virtual library of over 104,000 compounds. Then, 32 virtual hits were selected, out of which five were experimentally confirmed. Biophysical and biochemical tests showed micromolar binding affinity and time-dependent inhibitory potency for two compounds. These results validate the computational protocol that allows the screening of large compound collections. One of the lead-like boronic acid derivatives identified as a covalent immunoproteasome inhibitor is a suitable starting point for chemical optimization.