Design and Synthesis of Potent Inhibitors of the Malaria Aspartyl Proteases Plasmepsin I and II. Use of Solid-Phase Synthesis to Explore Novel Statine Motifs
摘要:
Picomolar to low nanomolar inhibitors of the two aspartic proteases plasmepsin (Plm) I and II, from the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum, have been identified from sets of libraries containing novel statine-like templates modified at the amino and carboxy terminus. The syntheses of the novel statine templates were carried out in solution phase using efficient synthetic routes and resulting in excellent stereochemical control. The most promising statine template was attached to solid support and diversified by use of parallel synthesis. The products were evaluated for their Plm I and II inhibitory activity as well as their selectivity over cathepsin D. Selected inhibitors were, in addition, evaluated for their inhibition of parasite growth in cultured infected human red blood cells. The most potent inhibitor in this report, compound 16, displays K-i values of 0.5 and 2.2 nM for Plm I and II, respectively. Inhibitor 16 is also effective in attenuating parasite growth in red blood cells showing 51% inhibition at a concentration of 5 muM. Several inhibitors have been identified that exhibit K-i values between 0.5 and 74 nM for both Plm I and II. Some of these inhibitors also show excellent selectivity vs cathepsin D.
Superiority of the carbamoylmethyl ester as an acyl donor for the kinetically controlled amide-bond formation mediated by α-chymotrypsinElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: elemental analyses and HPLC separation data. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/p1/b1/b108735p/
The superiority of the carbamoylmethyl ester as an acyl donor for the α-chymotrypsin-catalysed kinetically controlled peptide-bond formation is demonstrated in the couplings of an inherently poor amino acid substrate, Ala, with various amino acid residues as amino components and in the couplings of non-protein amino acids such as halogenophenylalanines as carboxylic components. Furthermore, this approach is applied to the amide-bond formation between an amino acid residue and a chiral amine, which is highly diastereoselective.
carbamoylmethyl (Cam) esters as acyldonors in the presence of a cysteine protease, papain, immobilized on Celite. Several segment condensations were also achieved generally in high yields without danger of racemization and formation of the secondary-hydrolysis product. Moreover, partial sequences of some bioactive peptides were prepared through segment condensations, and aimed-at peptides were obtained generally
The resulting substrate mimetics act as efficient acyldonorcomponents and show the typical behavior of substrate mimicry enabling irreversible reactions with originally nonspecific acyl moieties. Neither a workup of the substrate mimetic intermediate nor changes of the reaction conditions during the whole synthesis process are required. Model peptide syntheses using trypsin, alpha-chymotrypsin, and
Broadening of the substrate tolerance of α-chymotrypsin by using the carbamoylmethyl ester as an acyl donor in kinetically controlled peptide synthesis
In the kinetically controlled approach of peptide synthesis mediated by α-chymotrypsin, the broadening of the protease’s substrate tolerance is achieved by switching the acyldonor from the conventional methyl ester to the carbamoylmethyl ester. Thus, as a typical example, the extremely low coupling efficiency obtained by employing the methyl ester of an inherently poor amino acid substrate, Ala, is
作者:José G. Hernández、Karen J. Ardila-Fierro、Deborah Crawford、Stuart L. James、Carsten Bolm
DOI:10.1039/c7gc00615b
日期:——
Mechanochemical chemoenzymatic peptide and amidebondformation catalysed by papain was studied by ball milling. Despite the high-energy mixing experienced inside the ball mill, the biocatalyst proved stable and highly efficient to catalyse the formation of α,α- and α,β-dipeptides. This strategy was further extended to the enzymatic acylation of amines by milling, and to the mechanosynthesis of a derivative