molecular design

基于片段的药物发现（FBDD）作为发现新药的有力方法，已备受制药行业和学术界关注。 在近期上市的药物结构中，sp3 中心和立体中心的比例显著增加，研究者们对高三维度（3D）和富含 Fsp3 中心的片段库颇感兴趣。

MCE 3D 多样片段库由 5,400 个非平面片段分子组成（平均 Fsp3 值为 0.58），超过4,700个片段至少包含一个手性中心。本库设计的关键元素是 3D 结构、多样性、生物反应性等。另，库中化合物在保证高sp3中心和 3D 结构优势的同时，还有效提高了片段潜在生物活性，为基于片段的药物发现提供了更高的片段命中优化概率，增加了找到创新命中的可能性。

拟肽化合物是一类药效团在三维空间中模拟天然肽或蛋白质，并保留与生物靶标相互作用的能力，产生相同的生物效应的化合物。拟肽化合物的设计是为了规避一些天然肽自身存在的问题：如对蛋白水解作用的稳定性(活性持续时间)和较差的生物利用度，某些其他性质，如受体的选择性或效能，往往可以得到很大的改善。拟肽的设计和合成是非常重要的，因为在分子识别和信号传递中，尤其是在生命系统中，肽和蛋白-蛋白相互作用起着主导作用。因此，拟肽类化合物在新药开发中具有巨大潜力。

MCE 拟肽类化合物库包含 375 种小分子化合物，包括类肽，α-螺旋类似物，β-折叠类似物等，是药物发现中研究构效关系不可或缺的工具。

ASINEX has elaborated a library of diverse macrocycles using an effective tool box of synthetic methods. The resulting scaffolds are novel, tremendously diverse, medchem-relevant, macrocyclic frameworks.

Macrocyles tend to be larger than traditional screening molecules which make them perfect discovery tools for targets with shallow or extended binding sites. At the same time, their unique character based on restricted flexibility and ability to form intra-molecular hydrogen bonds allows for design approaches effectively optimizing properties such asaqueous solubility and membrane permeability. Many of these macrocycles have been tested for aqueous and DMSO solubility with cut-offs applied at 10 mM in DMSO and 50 µM in PBS (pH 7.4) followed by PAMPA permeability assay.

“BioDesign” approach incorporates key structural features of known pharmacologically relevant natural products (e.g. alkaloids and other secondary metabolites) into synthetically feasible medicinal chemistry scaffolds. In order to identify the privileged pharmacophores, ring systems and linkers, we have carried out statistical analysis of structural features of natural products, marketed drugs, and drug candidates.

Saturated, fused ring, spiro, and bridged systems with a tendency towards multiple chiral centers are highly privileged among natural products and marketed drugs yet these structures are very poorly represented in commercial libraries. This library addressed this market need by incorporating these privileged elements into the design of novel synthetic molecules with high molecular framework diversity, multiple stereogenic centers (≥2), and degree of saturation (Fsp3 > 0.5).