Currently, MS based assays play a vital role within the drug development pipeline as both a method of screening potential ligands for protein binding and assessing relative or, in some cases, absolute binding strength of a protein-ligand complex. However, obtaining final conformation of ligand binding and structural characterization data (at any level) on the newly-formed complex still remains a significant challenge. This situation frames a critical technology gap in the development phase of pharmaceuticals, where many potential drug candidates are screened by time-consuming or inefficient analytical methods leading to long lead compound development times and, eventually, cost inefficient pharmaceutical products. We are developing IM-MS based protein ligand screening techniques that will enable the acquisition of both binding and structural information simultaneously. In addition, collision induced unfolding (CIU) can provide orthogonal information relative to MS analysis of protein-ligand complexes alone, as the unfolding transitions are very sensitive to the local binding interactions developed between ligand and protein.
For more details, please refer to Niu, S. et al., Curr. Opinion. Chem. Bio., 2013, 17 (5).
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