Tryptophan and thiosemicarbazide derivatives: design, synthesis, and biological evaluation as potential β-d-galactosidase and β-d-glucosidase inhibitors
作者:Reema Abu Khalaf、Ahmed Mutanabbi Abdula、Mohammad S. Mubarak、Mutasem O. Taha
DOI:10.1007/s00044-014-1314-4
日期:2015.6
Glycosidases, including beta-d-galactosidase and beta-d-glucosidase, are involved in a range of metabolic disorders, such as cancer, viral or bacterial infections, and diabetes. Previously, we scanned the pharmacophoric space of these enzymes and had a self-consistent and predictive quantitative structure-activity relationship that was used to identify several beta-d-galactosidase and beta-d-glucosidase inhibitors via in silico search of structural databases. Guided by the preceding modeling efforts, synthesis of a series of tryptophan and thiosemicarbazide derivatives as beta-d-galactosidase and beta-d-glucosidase inhibitors that match the generated pharmacophores followed by in vitro bioassay was carried out. Synthesized compounds 3c (37 % inhibition at 100 A mu M) and 4d (49 % inhibition at 100 A mu M) exhibited the best inhibitory bioactivities against beta-d-galactosidase and beta-d-glucosidase, respectively. They can serve as a promising lead compounds for the development of potential glycosidase inhibitors.