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-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase (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
4-酪氨酸丙酮酸双加氧酶(HPPD)参与酪氨酸降解途径,是治疗I型酪氨酸血症的重要靶标。为了发现新型的HPPD抑制剂,我们基于HPPD与商业药物NTBC之间的相互作用,提出了疏水性导向的药物设计(HODD)策略。大多数新化合物显示出更高的活性,化合物d23是最活跃的候选化合物(IC 50 = 0.047μM),效力比NTBC(IC 50 = 0.085μM)高约2倍。因此,化合物d23是治疗I型酪氨酸血症的潜在候选药物。