The ReFRAME library was received from Calibr, Scripps Research, as compounds dissolved to 10 mM in DMSO, spotted in 30 nL volumes in black 384 well plates. All peptides used were prepared with C-terminal amides from Cambridge Research Biochemicals (Billingham, UK) and provided at > 95% purity. Cambridge Research Biochemicals (Billingham, UK) synthesized the ester and acid forms of SDZ-224015 (compounds
4 &
5) used in follow-up studies, provided at > 95% purity. Additional compound
4 was synthesised as described below. pelitinib (
10),
afatinib (
11), dacomitinib (
12) and
gefitinib (
13) were obtained from Tocris (Bristol, UK). The active form of Tarloxotinib (
9) was from Molport (Riga, Latvia). Compound
3 was from Santa Cruz Biotechnology (Dallas, Texas, USA), Compounds
2,
7 and
8 were from MedChem Express (Sweden); Compound
6 was from Bachem (Bubendorf, Switzerland).
The African monkey kidney cell line Vero E6-GFP was a gift kindly provided by M. van Loock, Janssen Pharmaceutica, Beerse, Belgium.
The hepatocellular carcinoma cell line Huh7 was a gift kindly provided by Ralf Bartenschlager, University of Heidelberg, Germany.
All compounds were obtained at a manufacturer specification of > 98% purity.
Unless otherwise stated all other reagents were from Sigma Aldrich (Poole, UK).
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