Chemical and Biological Evaluation of Dipeptidyl Boronic Acid Proteasome Inhibitors for Use in Prodrugs and Pro-Soft Drugs Targeting Solid Tumors
摘要:
Bortezomib, a dipeptidyl boronic acid and potent inhibitor of the 26S proteasome, is remarkably effective against multiple myeloma (MM) but not against solid tumors. Dose-limiting adverse effects from "on target" inhibition of the proteasome in normal cells and tissues appear to be a key obstacle. Achieving efficacy against solid tumors therefore is likely to require making the inhibitor more selective for tumor tissue over normal tissues. The simplest strategy that might provide such tissue specificity would be to employ a tumor specific protease to release an inhibitor from a larger, noninhibitory structure. However, such release would necessarily generate an inhibitor with a free N-terminal amino group, raising a key question: Can short peptide boronic acids with N-terminal amino groups have the requisite properties to serve as warheads in prodrugs? Here we show that dipeptides of boroLeu, the smallest plausible candidates for the task, can indeed be sufficiently potent, cell-penetrating, cytotoxic, and stable to degradation by cellular peptidases to serve in this capacity.
New Pyrazine Conjugates: Synthesis, Computational Studies, and Antiviral Properties against SARS‐CoV‐2
作者:Israa A. Seliem、Adel S. Girgis、Yassmin Moatasim、Ahmed Kandeil、Ahmed Mostafa、Mohamed A. Ali、Mohamed S. Bekheit、Siva S. Panda
DOI:10.1002/cmdc.202100476
日期:2021.11.19
Antiviral drug development for SARS-CoV-2: The design and microwave-assisted synthesis of pyrazine conjugates are reported. Some of the newly synthesized conjugates show better antiviral activity and selectivity indexes than those of the reference drug. All the lead compounds exhibited low cytotoxicity. Thus, these conjugates could lead to the development of potential drug candidates for SARS-CoV-2.
One-pot synthesis of some 2<i>H</i>-Pyran-2-one derivatives
作者:Vladimir Kepe、Marijan Kočevar、Slovenko Polanc
DOI:10.1002/jhet.5570330626
日期:1996.11
A one-potsynthesis of various 2H-pyran-2-onederivatives 5–19 starting from methyl ketones 1, N,N-dimethylformamide dimethyl acetal and N-acylglycines 3 in acetic anhydride is described.
tied to the more lipophilic compounds. The most active derivative contained phenylglycine moiety (PC-d/l-Pgl-Me, MIC < 1.95 µg/mL). All active compounds possessed low cytotoxicity and good selectivity towards Mtb. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study comparing the activities of the d- and l-amino acid derivatives of pyrazinamide as potential antimycobacterial compounds.
CIP2A is an oncoprotein that upregulates p-Akt and promotes cancer cell proliferation and survival. The proteasome inhibitor bortezomib has been shown to reduce CIP2A and lead to cell apoptosis. Here; we modified the functional group of bortezomib to generate a series of novel compounds and conducted a structure–activity relationship (SAR) study. The results showed that compound 1 was able to repress CIP2A expression and cell apoptosis in the same manner as bortezomib, but with less potency in inhibition of proteasome activity. This finding provides a new direction for the design of CIP2A inhibitors.
Derivatives of someaminoacids, having a pyrazinecarbonyl or 3-aminopyrazinecarbonyl radical, have been synthesized and somepeptides prepared. In the case of the 3-aminopyrazinecarbonyl derivatives, condensed pyrimidines, i.e. 4(3H)-pteridinone derivatives, could be prepared.