Toolkit of Approaches To Support Target-Focused Drug Discovery for Plasmodium falciparum Lysyl tRNA Synthetase

Rachel Milne; Natalie Wiedemar; Victoriano Corpas Lopez; Eoin Moynihan; Richard J. Wall; Alice Dawson; David A. Robinson; Sharon M. Shepherd; Robert J. Smith; Irene Hallyburton; John M. Post; Karen Dowers; Leah S. Torrie; Ian H. Gilbert; Beatriz Baragaña; Stephen Patterson; Susan Wyllie

doi:10.1021/acsinfecdis.2c00364

Toolkit of Approaches To Support Target-Focused Drug Discovery for Plasmodium falciparum Lysyl tRNA Synthetase

Rachel Milne, Natalie Wiedemar, Victoriano Corpas Lopez, Eoin Moynihan, Richard J. Wall, Alice Dawson, David A. Robinson, Sharon M. Shepherd, Robert J. Smith, Irene Hallyburton, John M. Post, Karen Dowers, Leah S. Torrie, Ian H. Gilbert, Beatriz Baragaña, Stephen Patterson, Susan Wyllie (Lead / Corresponding author)

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Abstract

There is a pressing need for new medicines to prevent and treat malaria. Most antimalarial drug discovery is reliant upon phenotypic screening. However, with the development of improved target validation strategies, target-focused approaches are now being utilized. Here, we describe the development of a toolkit to support the therapeutic exploitation of a promising target, lysyl tRNA synthetase (PfKRS). The toolkit includes resistant mutants to probe resistance mechanisms and on-target engagement for specific chemotypes; a hybrid KRS protein capable of producing crystals suitable for ligand soaking, thus providing high-resolution structural information to guide compound optimization; chemical probes to facilitate pulldown studies aimed at revealing the full range of specifically interacting proteins and thermal proteome profiling (TPP); as well as streamlined isothermal TPP methods to provide unbiased confirmation of on-target engagement within a biologically relevant milieu. This combination of tools and methodologies acts as a template for the development of future target-enabling packages.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1962-1974
Number of pages	13
Journal	ACS Infectious Diseases
Volume	8
Issue number	9
Early online date	29 Aug 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acsinfecdis.2c00364
Publication status	Published - 9 Sept 2022

Keywords

Plasmodium
lysyl tRNA synthetase
thermal proteome profiling (TPP)
isothermal TPP
chemical pulldown
anti-malarial drug discover
antimalarial drug discovery

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Infectious Diseases

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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Milne, R., Wiedemar, N., Corpas Lopez, V., Moynihan, E., Wall, R. J., Dawson, A., Robinson, D. A., Shepherd, S. M., Smith, R. J., Hallyburton, I., Post, J. M., Dowers, K., Torrie, L. S., Gilbert, I. H., Baragaña, B., Patterson, S., & Wyllie, S. (2022). Toolkit of Approaches To Support Target-Focused Drug Discovery for Plasmodium falciparum Lysyl tRNA Synthetase. ACS Infectious Diseases, 8(9), 1962-1974. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsinfecdis.2c00364

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Toolkit of Approaches To Support Target-Focused Drug Discovery for Plasmodium falciparum Lysyl tRNA Synthetase

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A Platform for Drug Target Deconvolution and Exploitation

Structure-Guided Drug Discovery for Malaria and Tuberculosis (joint with Structural Genomics Consortium)

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Toolkit of Approaches To Support Target-Focused Drug Discovery for Plasmodium falciparum Lysyl tRNA Synthetase

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ASJC Scopus subject areas

UN SDGs

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A Platform for Drug Target Deconvolution and Exploitation

Structure-Guided Drug Discovery for Malaria and Tuberculosis (joint with Structural Genomics Consortium)

Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research

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