Design, Synthesis, and Structure-Activity Relationship Studies for a New Imidazole Series of J774 Macrophage Specific Acyl-CoA:Cholesterol Acyltransferase (ACAT) Inhibitors
作者:Thomas P. Maduskuie、Richard G. Wilde、Jeffrey T. Billheimer、Debra A. Cromley、Sandra Germain、Peter J. Gillies、C. Anne Higley、Alex L. Johnson、Penio Pennev、Edward J. Shimshick、Ruth R. Wexler
DOI:10.1021/jm00007a004
日期:1995.3
Acyl-CoA:cholesterolacyltransferase (ACAT) is the primary enzyme involved in intracellular cholesterol esterification. Arterial wall infiltration by macrophages and subsequent uncontrolled esterification of cholesterol leading to foam cell formation is believed to be an important process which leads to the development of fatty streaks. Inhibitors of the ACAT enzyme may retard this atherogenic process