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SUBMITTER: Lee J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3049443 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lee Jiyong J Udugamasooriya D Gomika DG Lim Hyun-Suk HS Kodadek Thomas T
Nature chemical biology 20100314 4
Advances in high-throughput screening now enable the rapid discovery of bioactive small molecules, but these primary hits almost always exhibit modest potency. We report a strategy for the transformation of these hits into much more potent inhibitors without compound optimization. Appending a derivative of Ru(II)(tris-bipyridyl)(2+), an efficient photosensitizer of singlet oxygen production, to synthetic protein-binding compounds results in highly potent and specific target protein inactivation ...[more]