In silico design and synthesis of piperazine-1-pyrrolidine-2,5-dione scaffold-based novel malic enzyme inhibitors
作者:Y. John Zhang、Zhaolin Wang、Dennis Sprous、Roustem Nabioullin
DOI:10.1016/j.bmcl.2005.10.065
日期:2006.2
Fragment-based virtual library design and virtual screening have been conducted against malic enzyme (ME) homology model. Several scaffolds have been identified as promising motifs to target ME's NADP binding site. One small focused library has been synthesized and tested against ME. Several compounds from this library have shown sub-micromolar inhibitory activity against malic enzyme. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.