Design, Synthesis and Evaluation of d-Homophenylalanyl Epoxysuccinate Inhibitors of the Trypanosomal Cysteine Protease Cruzain
作者:William R Roush、Alejandro Alvarez Hernandez、James H McKerrow、Paul M Selzer、Elizabeth Hansell、Juan C Engel
DOI:10.1016/s0040-4020(00)00882-6
日期:2000.12
The binding modes of E-64c to papain combined with molecular modeling and ligand design using the crystal structure of cruzain have been used to develop new, potent D-Homophenylalanyl epoxysuccinate inhibitors of cruzain, the major cysteine protease of Trypanosoma cruzi. The most potent inhibitor 47 contains an O-benzyl hydroxamate unit and is highly specific for cruzain relative to other cysteine proteases tested. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.