Target Engagement

目标参与核心 可溶性腺苷酸环化酶（sAC：ADCY 10）是一种非激素靶点，遗传学和免疫学上都是如此。 被证实对男性生育力至关重要。威尔康奈尔医学避孕研究的目标是 中心（WCM-CRC）是开发急性作用的sAC抑制剂到按需避孕药， 男人会在性交前不久服用，只有在需要的时候，并且经常需要。利用一个既定的，结构- 基于药物设计工作流程，包括（a）建模和药物化学;（B）晶体学和 细胞-人sAC复合物的结构测定;和（c）一组体外生物化学测定 通过测量效力、功效和特异性，我们成功地开发了一系列有效的、特异的和 药物样sAC抑制剂，其适用于sAC药物潜力的体内研究。在临床前 在小鼠中进行的概念验证实验，一种“工具”化合物使雄性小鼠暂时不育， 确定sAC蛋白上的长停留时间为基本疗效定义特征。因此，我们现在 通过直接评估结合动力学的生物物理学研究来增强我们已建立的工作流程。我们 集中这些生物化学，生物物理学和晶体学研究，检查效力，选择性， 结合动力学和sAC抑制剂的分子相互作用成为“封闭的”技术核心。该体外 目标参与核心将支持WCM-CRC中的所有三个项目。虽然新的特征 项目1和3中设计的类似物将构成其主要用途，它也将用于确认体外 为项目2中的研究大量合成的高级电极导线的有效性。

Target Engagement Core Soluble adenylyl cyclase (sAC: ADCY10) is a nonhormonal target, genetically and pharmacologically validated to be essential for male fertility. The goal of this Weill Cornell Medicine Contraception Research Center (WCM-CRC) is to develop acutely acting sAC inhibitors into on-demand birth control pills which a man would take shortly before sex, only when, and as often as, needed. Using an established, structure- based drug design workflow consisting of (a) modeling and medicinal chemistry; (b) crystallography and structure determination of inhibitor-human sAC complexes; and (c) a battery of in vitro biochemical assays measuring potency, efficacy, and specificity, we successfully developed a series of potent, specific, and drug-like sAC inhibitors suitable for in vivo interrogation of sAC pharmaceutical potential. In preclinical proof-of-concept experiments in mice, a `tool' compound rendered male mice temporarily infertile and identified long residence time on sAC protein as an essential efficacy-defining feature. Thus, we now augment our established workflow with biophysical studies directly assessing binding kinetics. We centralize these biochemical, biophysical, and crystallographic studies examining potency, selectivity, binding kinetics, and molecular interactions of sAC inhibitors into a `closed' technical core. This in vitro Target Engagement core will support all three Projects in the WCM-CRC. While characterization of newly designed analogs in Projects 1 and 3 will constitute its major use, it will also be used to confirm the in vitro efficacy of advanced leads synthesized in larger quantities for the studies in Project 2.