Hydrophobicity-oriented drug design (HODD) of new human 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase inhibitors
作者:Ferdinand Ndikuryayo、Wei-Ming Kang、Feng-Xu Wu、Wen-Chao Yang、Guang-Fu Yang
DOI:10.1016/j.ejmech.2019.01.032
日期:2019.3
Involved in the tyrosine degradation pathway, 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvatedioxygenase (HPPD) is an important target for treating type I tyrosinemia. To discover novel HPPD inhibitors, we proposed a hydrophobicity-oriented drug design (HODD) strategy based on the interactions between HPPD and the commercial drug NTBC. Most of the new compounds showed improved activity, compound d23 being the most active