作者:Andrea Trabocchi、Nicolino Pala、Ilga Krimmelbein、Gloria Menchi、Antonio Guarna、Mario Sechi、Tobias Dreker、Andrea Scozzafava、Claudiu T. Supuran、Fabrizio Carta
DOI:10.3109/14756366.2014.947976
日期:2015.5.4
The protein arginine deiminase 4 (PAD4) is a calcium-dependent enzyme, which catalyses the irreversible conversion of peptidyl-arginines into peptidyl-citrullines and plays an important role in several diseases such as in the rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, Creutzfeldt-Jacob's disease and cancer. In this study, we report the inhibition profiles and computational docking toward the PAD4 enzyme of a series of 1,2,3-triazole peptidomimetic-based derivatives incorporating the beta-phenylalanine and guanidine scaffolds. Several effective, low micromolar PAD4 inhibitors are reported in this study.