Authors: Bradley Worley Nicholas J Sisco Robert Powers
Publish Date: 2015/07/09
Volume: 63, Issue: 1, Pages: 53-58
Abstract
NMR ligandaffinity screens are vital to drug discovery are routinely used to screen fragmentbased libraries and used to verify chemical leads from highthroughput assays and virtual screens NMR ligandaffinity screens are also a highly informative first step towards identifying functional epitopes of unknown proteins as well as elucidating the biochemical functions of protein–ligand interaction at their binding interfaces While simple onedimensional 1H NMR experiments are capable of indicating binding through a change in ligand line shape they are plagued by broad illdefined background signals from protein 1H resonances We present an uncomplicated method for subtraction of protein background in highthroughput ligandbased affinity screens and show that its performance is maximized when phasescatter correction is applied prior to subtraction
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