Multiplexed Screening of Thousands of Natural Products for Protein–Ligand Binding in Native Mass Spectrometry
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The structural diversity of natural products offers unique opportunities for drug discovery, but challenges associated with their isolation and screening can hinder the identification of drug-like molecules from complex natural product extracts. Here we introduce a mass spectrometry-based approach that integrates untargeted metabolomics with multistage, high-resolution native mass spectrometry to rapidly identify natural products that bind to therapeutically relevant protein targets. By directly screening crude natural product extracts containing thousands of drug-like small molecules using a single, rapid measurement, we could identify novel natural product ligands of human drug targets without fractionation. This method should significantly increase the efficiency of target-based natural product drug discovery workflows.
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Both native and affinity MS approaches have been applied with single compounds as well as substrate pools, allowing simultaneous screening of complex natural compound libraries.
“Both native and affinity MS approaches have been applied with single compounds as well as substrate pools, which allows for the simultaneous screening of complex natural compound libraries26–28.”
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Native metabolomics identifies the rivulariapeptolide family of protease inhibitors
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- Authors
- Nguyen, G. T. H., Bennett, J. L., Liu, S., Hancock, S. E., Winter, D. L., Glover, D. J., & Donald, W. A.
- Affiliations
- UNSW Sydney (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Donald, William A.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Journal of the American Chemical Society
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Published
- 2021-12-10
- Volume
- 143
- Issue
- 50
- Pages
- 21379-21387
- ISSN
- 0002-7863 (ISSN-L)
- 1520-5126
- OpenAlex
- W4225337620
- Cited by
- 66
- References
- 40
- Citations by year
- 2026: 12 · 2025: 15 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 1
- FWCI
- 3.56
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- doi.org
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- Locations
- Journal of the American Chemical Society (publishedVersion)
- ChemRxiv (acceptedVersion, cc-by)
- ChemRxiv (acceptedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Australian Research Council (DP190103298, FT200100798)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Spectroscopy › Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
- Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Spectroscopy › Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications
- Keywords
- natural products, protein-ligand binding, native mass spectrometry, untargeted metabolomics, natural product drug discovery, target-based drug discovery, high-resolution mass spectrometry, multiplexed screening, drug-like small molecules
- MeSH terms
- Biological Products, Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid, Humans, Ligands, Proteins, Carbonic Anhydrase I, Tandem Mass Spectrometry, Metabolomics
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