Wednesday, 2 November 2005
426g
High-Throughput Biocatalysis on Microarrays for Synthesis and Screening of Small Molecule Therapeutics
Disha Ahuja1, Lakshmi Santhanam
2, Sarah Brooks
1, Sylvain Antoniotti
3, and Jonathan S. Dordick
1. (1) Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, (2) Division of Cardiology Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD 21209, (3) Laboratoire Synthèse Organique Sélective et Produits Naturels, ENSCP, Paris, France
There is a tremendous need to develop new tools for generating small molecule based therapeutics and screening them in a rapid and high-throughput manner. Solid-phase biocatalysis is a powerful tool that can be used to generate bioactive small molecules by exploiting the unique selectivity of enzymes combined with the advantages of solid-phase reactions such as simple purification and isolation of a single compound from a mixture. Using principles of solid-phase biocatalysis and microarray technology, we have generated a library of phenolics with potential therapeutic significance, in a spatially addressable format in 25 nL reaction volumes on glass slides. Apocynin, an ortho-methoxyphenol known for its antioxidative properties was used as a model compound along with peroxidase-catalyzed phenolic oxidation to generate molecules that were screened for their thiol-binding ability. We are using multiple enzymes and substrates in a combinatorial or iterative fashion, to generate microarrays of small molecules and screen them in high-throughput for biological activity. Ultimately, this will lead to an efficient platform for lead optimization which is a critical bottleneck in the drug discovery process.
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