- Wu, Chun-Yi;
- Wang, Don-Hong;
- Wang, Xiaobing;
- Dixon, Seth M;
- Meng, Liping;
- Ahadi, Sara;
- Enter, Daniel H;
- Chen, Chao-Yu;
- Kato, Jason;
- Leon, Leonardo J;
- Ramirez, Laura M;
- Maeda, Yoshiko;
- Reis, Carolina F;
- Ribeiro, Brianna;
- Weems, Brittany;
- Kung, Hsing-Jien;
- Lam, Kit S
Identifying "druggable" targets and their corresponding therapeutic agents are two fundamental challenges in drug discovery research. The one-bead-one-compound (OBOC) combinatorial library method has been developed to discover peptides or small molecules that bind to a specific target protein or elicit a specific cellular response. The phage display cDNA expression proteome library method has been employed to identify target proteins that interact with specific compounds. Here, we combined these two high-throughput approaches, efficiently interrogated approximately 10(13) possible molecular interactions, and identified 91 small molecule compound beads that interacted strongly with the phage library. Of 19 compounds resynthesized, 4 were cytotoxic against cancer cells; one of these compounds was found to interact with EIF5B and inhibit protein translation. As more binding pairs are confirmed and evaluated, the "library-against-library" screening approach and the resulting small molecule-protein domain interaction database may serve as a valuable tool for basic research and drug development.