Synthesis of peptidyl fluoromethyl ketones and peptidyl .alpha.-keto esters as inhibitors of porcine pancreatic elastase, human neutrophil elastase, and rat and human neutrophil cathepsin G
摘要:
Comparison of MeO-Suc-Val-Pro-Phe-CO2Me (29) and MeO-Suc-Ala-Ala-Pro-Phe- CO2Me (25) with their corresponding trifluoromethyl ketones 9a and 9b, respectively, in rat and human neutrophil cathepsin G assays showed the alpha-keto esters to be more potent inhibitors. Likewise, Ac-Pro-Ala-Pro-Ala-CO2Me (21) was more potent than its corresponding trifluoromethyl ketone (9c) in both porcine pancreatic elastase and human neutrophil elastase assays. Within a set of Ala-Ala-Pro-Val-CF3 elastase inhibitors, the carbobenzyloxy (Cbz) N-protecting group conferred greater potency as a P5 site recognition unit for elastase than did dansyl, methoxysuccinyl, or tert-butyloxycarbonyl. Initial inhibition of elastase was greater when trifluoromethyl ketone 9f was added from a stock solution of dimethyl sulfoxide than when it had been buffer-equilibrated prior to assay, which suggests that the nonhydrated ketone is the more effective form of the inhibitor. The most potent elastase inhibitor we report is Na-(Ad-SO2)-N epsilon-(MeO-Suc)Lys-Pro-Val-CF3 (16) which has a Ki of 0.58 nM.
Trifluoromethylphenyl as P2 for ketoamide-based cathepsin S inhibitors
作者:Jiaqiang Cai、John Robinson、Simone Belshaw、Kathryn Everett、Xavier Fradera、Mario van Zeeland、Leon van Berkom、Peter van Rijnsbergen、Lucy Popplestone、Mark Baugh、Maureen Dempster、John Bruin、William Hamilton、Emma Kinghorn、Paul Westwood、Jennifer Kerr、Zoran Rankovic、Wullie Arbuckle、D. Jonathan Bennett、Philip S. Jones、Clive Long、Iain Martin、Joost C.M. Uitdehaag、Tommi Meulemans
DOI:10.1016/j.bmcl.2010.10.012
日期:2010.12
The trifluoromethylphenyl P2 motif from previously reported heteroarylnitrile series has been successfully applied for the design and synthesis of highly potent novel ketoamide-based cathepsin S inhibitors. The key in this process is the change of the torsion angle between the P2 phenyl ring and the attached secondary amide by adding a small Cl, F, or Me group at the 2-position. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.