Exploring unsymmetrical dyads as efficient inhibitors against the insect β-N-acetyl-d-hexosaminidase OfHex2
作者:Qi Chen、Peng Guo、Lin Xu、Tian Liu、Xuhong Qian、Qing Yang
DOI:10.1016/j.biochi.2013.10.008
日期:2014.2
The GH20 beta-N-acetyl-D-hexosaminidase OfHex2 from the insect Ostrinia furnacalis (Guenee) is a target potential for eco-friendly pesticide development. Although carbohydrate-based inhibitors against beta-Nacetyl-D-hexosaminidases are widely studied, highly efficient, non-carbohydrate inhibitors are more attractive due to low cost and readily synthetic manner. Based on molecular modeling analysis of the catalytic domain of OfHex2, a series of novel naphthalimide-scaffold conjugated with a small aromatic moiety by an alkylamine spacer linker were designed and evaluated as efficiently competitive inhibitors against OfHex2. The most potent one containing naphthalimide and phenyl groups spanning by an N-alkylamine linker has a K-i value of 0.37 mu M, which is 6 fold lower than that of M-31850, the most potent non-carbohydrate inhibitor ever reported. The straightforward synthetic manners as well as the presumed binding model in this paper could be advantageous for further structural optimization for developing inhibitors against GH20 beta-N-acetyl-D-hexosaminidases. (C) 2013 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.