14482-33-8Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Discovery of selective fragment-sized immunoproteasome inhibitors
Kollár, Levente,Gobec, Martina,Szilágyi, Bence,Proj, Matic,Knez, Damijan,ábrányi-Balogh, Péter,Petri, László,Imre, Tímea,Bajusz, Dávid,Ferenczy, Gy?rgy G.,Gobec, Stanislav,Keser?, Gy?rgy M.,Sosi?, Izidor
, (2021)
Proteasomes contribute to maintaining protein homeostasis and their inhibition is beneficial in certain types of cancer and in autoimmune diseases. However, the inhibition of the proteasomes in healthy cells leads to unwanted side-effects and significant effort has been made to identify inhibitors specific for the immunoproteasome, especially to treat diseases which manifest increased levels and activity of this proteasome isoform. Here, we report our efforts to discover fragment-sized inhibitors of the human immunoproteasome. The screening of an in-house library of structurally diverse fragments resulted in the identification of benzo[d]oxazole-2(3H)-thiones, benzo[d]thiazole-2(3H)-thiones, benzo[d]imidazole-2(3H)-thiones, and 1-methylbenzo[d]imidazole-2(3H)-thiones (with a general term benzoXazole-2(3H)-thiones) as inhibitors of the chymotrypsin-like (β5i) subunit of the immunoproteasome. A subsequent structure-activity relationship study provided us with an insight regarding growing vectors. Binding to the β5i subunit was shown and selectivity against the β5 subunit of the constitutive proteasome was determined. Thorough characterization of these compounds suggested that they inhibit the immunoproteasome by forming a disulfide bond with the Cys48 available specifically in the β5i active site. To obtain fragments with biologically more tractable covalent interactions, we performed a warhead scan, which yielded benzoXazole-2-carbonitriles as promising starting points for the development of selective immunoproteasome inhibitors with non-peptidic scaffolds.
Benzothiazolyl ureas are low micromolar and uncompetitive inhibitors of 17Β-HSD10 with implications to Alzheimer’s disease treatment
Aitken, Laura,Benek, Ondrej,Chribek, Matej,Dolezal, Rafael,Gunn-Moore, Frank,Hrabinova, Martina,Hroch, Lukas,Jun, Daniel,Kralova, Vendula,Kuca, Kamil,Lycka, Antonin,Musilek, Kamil,Prchal, Lukas,Schmidt, Monika,Vinklarova, Lucie,Zemanova, Lucie
, (2020/03/26)
Human 17β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 10 is a multifunctional protein involved in many enzymatic and structural processes within mitochondria. This enzyme was suggested to be involved in several neurological diseases, e.g., mental retardation, Parkinson’s disease, or Alzheimer’s disease, in which it was shown to interact with the amyloid-beta peptide. We prepared approximately 60 new compounds based on a benzothiazolyl scaffold and evaluated their inhibitory ability and mechanism of action. The most potent inhibitors contained 3-chloro and 4-hydroxy substitution on the phenyl ring moiety, a small substituent at position 6 on the benzothiazole moiety, and the two moieties were connected via a urea linker (4at, 4bb, and 4bg). These compounds exhibited IC50 values of 1–2 μM and showed an uncompetitive mechanism of action with respect to the substrate, acetoacetyl-CoA. These uncompetitive benzothiazolyl inhibitors of 17β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 10 are promising compounds for potential drugs for neurodegenerative diseases that warrant further research and development.
