Judicious combination of P-region sequences of highly potent anticoagulant proteins including NAPS, NAP6, Ecotin, and Antistasin with SAR from small molecule FXa inhibitors led to a series of chimeric inhibitors of formula 1a-j. We report herein the design, synthesis, and biological activity of this novel family of FXa inhibitors that express both high in vitro potency and superb selectivity against related serine proteases. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
Judicious combination of P-region sequences of highly potent anticoagulant proteins including NAPS, NAP6, Ecotin, and Antistasin with SAR from small molecule FXa inhibitors led to a series of chimeric inhibitors of formula 1a-j. We report herein the design, synthesis, and biological activity of this novel family of FXa inhibitors that express both high in vitro potency and superb selectivity against related serine proteases. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
As recently discovered, matriptase-2, a type II transmembrane serine protease, plays a crucial role in body iron homeostasis by down-regulating hepcidin expression, which results in increased iron levels. Thus, matriptase-2 represents a novel target for the development of enzyme inhibitors potentially useful for the treatment of systemic iron overload (hemochromatosis). A comparative three-dimensional model of the catalytic domain of matriptase-2 was generated and utilized for structure-based virtual screening in combination with similarity searching and knowledge-based compound design. Two N-protected dipeptide amides containing a 4-amidinobenzylamide as PI residue (compounds 1 and 3) were identified as the first small molecule inhibitors of matriptase-2 with K-i values of 170 and 460 nM, respectively. An inhibitor of the closely related protease matriptase (compound 2, K-i = 220 nM), with more than 50-fold selectivity over matriptase-2, was also identified.
作者:J.Edward Semple、Odile E Levy、Nathaniel K Minami、Timothy D Owens、Daniel V Siev
DOI:10.1016/s0960-894x(00)00458-3
日期:2000.10
Judicious combination of P-region sequences of highly potent anticoagulant proteins including NAPS, NAP6, Ecotin, and Antistasin with SAR from small molecule FXa inhibitors led to a series of chimeric inhibitors of formula 1a-j. We report herein the design, synthesis, and biological activity of this novel family of FXa inhibitors that express both high in vitro potency and superb selectivity against related serine proteases. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.