A prospective compound screening contest identified broader inhibitors for Sirtuin 1
Shuntaro Chiba, Masahito Ohue, Anastasiia Gryniukova, Petro Borysko, Sergey Zozulya, Nobuaki Yasuo, Ryunosuke Yoshino, Kazuyoshi Ikeda, Woong‐Hee Shin, Daisuke Kihara, Mitsuo Iwadate, Hideaki Umeyama, Takaaki Ichikawa, Reiji Teramoto, Kun‐Yi Hsin, Vipul Gupta, Hiroaki Kitano, Mika Sakamoto, Akiko Higuchi, Nobuaki Miura · Scientific Reports · 2019
Potential inhibitors of a target biomolecule, NAD-dependent deacetylase Sirtuin 1, were identified by a contest-based approach, in which participants were asked to propose a prioritized list of 400 compounds from a designated compound library containing 2.5 million compounds using in silico methods and scoring. Our aim was to identify target enzyme inhibitors and to benchmark computer-aided drug discovery methods under the same experimental conditions. Collecting compound lists derived from various methods is advantageous for aggregating compounds with structurally diversified properties compared with the use of a single method. The inhibitory action on Sirtuin 1 of approximately half of the proposed compounds was experimentally accessed. Ultimately, seven structurally diverse compounds were identified.