This invention relates to compounds that inhibit farnesyl-protein transferase and ras protein farnesylation, thereby making them useful as anti-cancer agents. The compounds are also useful in the treatment of diseases, other than cancer, associated with signal transduction pathways operating through ras and those associated with proteins other than ras that are also post-translationally modified by the enzyme farnesyl protein transferase. The compounds may also act as inhibitors of other prenyl transferases, and thus be effective in the treatment of diseases associated with other prenyl modifications of proteins.
本发明涉及抑制法尼基蛋白转移酶和 ras 蛋白法尼基化,从而使其可用作抗癌剂的化合物。除癌症外,这些化合物还可用于治疗与通过 ras 运作的
信号转导通路有关的疾病,以及与同样经法尼基蛋白转移酶翻译后修饰的 ras 以外的蛋白质有关的疾病。这些化合物还可以作为其他前炔基转移酶的
抑制剂,从而有效治疗与蛋白质的其他前炔基化修饰有关的疾病。