Biomaterial Database

Real-Time Biological Annotation of Synthetic Compounds. 2016

Christopher J Gerry, and Bruce K Hua, and Mathias J Wawer, and Jonathan P Knowles, and Shawn D Nelson, and Oscar Verho, and Sivaraman Dandapani, and Bridget K Wagner, and Paul A Clemons, and Kevin I Booker-Milburn, and Zarko V Boskovic, and Stuart L Schreiber

Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University , 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States.

Organic chemists are able to synthesize molecules in greater number and chemical complexity than ever before. Yet, a majority of these compounds go untested in biological systems, and those that do are often tested long after the chemist can incorporate the results into synthetic planning. We propose the use of high-dimensional "multiplex" assays, which are capable of measuring thousands of cellular features in one experiment, to annotate rapidly and inexpensively the biological activities of newly synthesized compounds. This readily accessible and inexpensive "real-time" profiling method can be used in a prospective manner to facilitate, for example, the efficient construction of performance-diverse small-molecule libraries that are enriched in bioactives. Here, we demonstrate this concept by synthesizing ten triads of constitutionally isomeric compounds via complexity-generating photochemical and thermal rearrangements and measuring compound-induced changes in cellular morphology via an imaging-based "cell painting" assay. Our results indicate that real-time biological annotation can inform optimization efforts and library syntheses by illuminating trends relating to biological activity that would be difficult to predict if only chemical structure were considered. We anticipate that probe and drug discovery will benefit from the use of optimization efforts and libraries that implement this approach.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007536	Isomerism	The phenomenon whereby certain chemical compounds have structures that are different although the compounds possess the same elemental composition. (From McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 5th ed)	Isomerisms
D004353	Drug Evaluation, Preclinical	Preclinical testing of drugs in experimental animals or in vitro for their biological and toxic effects and potential clinical applications.	Drug Screening,Evaluation Studies, Drug, Pre-Clinical,Drug Evaluation Studies, Preclinical,Drug Evaluations, Preclinical,Evaluation Studies, Drug, Preclinical,Evaluation, Preclinical Drug,Evaluations, Preclinical Drug,Medicinal Plants Testing, Preclinical,Preclinical Drug Evaluation,Preclinical Drug Evaluations,Drug Screenings,Screening, Drug,Screenings, Drug
D013997	Time Factors	Elements of limited time intervals, contributing to particular results or situations.	Time Series,Factor, Time,Time Factor
D054852	Small Molecule Libraries	Large collections of small molecules (molecular weight about 600 or less), of similar or diverse nature which are used for high-throughput screening analysis of the gene function, protein interaction, cellular processing, biochemical pathways, or other chemical interactions. It includes virtual libraries.	Chemical Libraries,Molecular Libraries, Small,Libraries, Chemical,Libraries, Small Molecular,Libraries, Small Molecule,Molecule Libraries, Small,Small Molecular Libraries
D055668	Photochemical Processes	Chemical reactions effected by light.	Processes, Photochemical
D060326	Chemistry Techniques, Synthetic	Methods used for the chemical synthesis of compounds. Included under this heading are laboratory methods used to synthesize a variety of chemicals and drugs.	Inorganic Synthesis,Inorganic Synthesis Methods,Inorganic Synthesis Techniques,Methods of Inorganic Synthesis,Methods of Organic Synthesis,Methods of Peptide Synthesis,Organic Synthesis,Organic Synthesis Methods,Organic Synthesis Techniques,Peptide Synthesis Methods,Peptide Synthesis Techniques,Peptide Synthesis, Synthetic,Synthetic Chemistry Techniques,Synthetic Peptide Synthesis,Chemistry Technique, Synthetic,Inorganic Syntheses,Inorganic Synthesis Method,Inorganic Synthesis Technique,Method, Inorganic Synthesis,Method, Organic Synthesis,Method, Peptide Synthesis,Methods, Inorganic Synthesis,Methods, Organic Synthesis,Methods, Peptide Synthesis,Organic Syntheses,Organic Synthesis Technique,Peptide Syntheses, Synthetic,Peptide Synthesis Method,Peptide Synthesis Technique,Syntheses, Inorganic,Syntheses, Organic,Syntheses, Synthetic Peptide,Synthesis Method, Inorganic,Synthesis Method, Peptide,Synthesis Methods, Inorganic,Synthesis Methods, Peptide,Synthesis Technique, Inorganic,Synthesis Technique, Organic,Synthesis Technique, Peptide,Synthesis Techniques, Inorganic,Synthesis Techniques, Organic,Synthesis Techniques, Peptide,Synthesis, Inorganic,Synthesis, Organic,Synthesis, Synthetic Peptide,Synthetic Chemistry Technique,Synthetic Peptide Syntheses,Technique, Inorganic Synthesis,Technique, Organic Synthesis,Technique, Peptide Synthesis,Technique, Synthetic Chemistry,Techniques, Inorganic Synthesis,Techniques, Organic Synthesis,Techniques, Peptide Synthesis,Techniques, Synthetic Chemistry