申请人:——
公开号:US20030092763A1
公开(公告)日:2003-05-15
The invention provides anti-thiol reagents which inhibit enzyme activity of cell-associated protein disulfide isomerase (PDI) by oxidizing or blocking PDI active site vicinal thiol groups which normally participate in disulfide bond rearrangement of PDI substrates. Inhibition of this PDI function is particularly useful in blocking PDI-mediated entry of HIV or other virions into a host cell, as well as inhibiting lymphocyte traffic through the lymph nodes. The invention further provides an assay for the identification of such PDI inhibitors based on the discovery that inhibitors of the invention also induce shedding of the leucocyte L-selectin adhesion molecule. The invention additionally provides for suppression of inflammation and of lymph node entry by calmodulin antagonists that, like PDI inhibition, cause leukocyte L-selectin shedding.
本发明提供了抗硫醇试剂,通过氧化或阻断通常参与 PDI 底物二硫键重排的 PDI 活性位点邻位硫醇基团,抑制细胞相关蛋白二硫异构酶(PDI)的酶活性。抑制 PDI 的这种功能尤其有助于阻止 PDI 介导的 HIV 或其他病毒进入宿主细胞,以及抑制淋巴细胞通过淋巴结的交通。本发明进一步提供了一种用于鉴定此类 PDI 抑制剂的检测方法,其依据是发现本发明的抑制剂还能诱导白细胞 L-选择素粘附分子脱落。本发明还提供了通过钙调蛋白拮抗剂抑制炎症和淋巴结进入的方法,这种拮抗剂与 PDI 抑制剂一样,会引起白细胞 L-选择素脱落。