1450880-88-2Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Vinyl sulfone-based inhibitors of trypanosomal cysteine protease rhodesain with improved antitrypanosomal activities
Ajayi, Oluwatomi,Collins, Jasmine,Crown, Olamide,Nyamwihura, Rogers,Ogungbe, Ifedayo Victor,Zhang, Huaisheng
, (2020)
The number of reported cases of Human African Trypanosmiasis (HAT), caused by kinetoplastid protozoan parasite Trypanosoma brucei, is declining in sub-Saharan Africa. Historically, such declines are generally followed by periods of higher incidence, and one of the lingering public health challenges of HAT is that its drug development pipeline is historically sparse. As a continuation of our work on new antitrypanosomal agents, we found that partially saturated quinoline-based vinyl sulfone compounds selectively inhibit the growth of T. brucei but displayed relatively weak inhibitory activity towards T. brucei's cysteine protease rhodesain. While two nitroaromatic analogues of the quinoline-based vinyl sulfone compounds displayed potent inhibition of T. brucei and rhodesain. The quinoline derivatives and the nitroaromatic-based compounds discovered in this work can serve as leads for ADME-based optimization and pre-clinical investigations.
Synthesis and kinetic evaluation of ethyl acrylate and vinyl sulfone derived inhibitors for human cysteine cathepsins
Breuer, Christian,Lemke, Carina,Schmitz, Janina,Bartz, Ulrike,Gütschow, Michael
, p. 2008 - 2012 (2018/05/16)
A series of inhibitors targeting human cathepsins have been designed and synthesized following a combinatorial approach. The compounds bear an α,β-unsaturated phenyl vinyl sulfone or ethyl acrylate warhead and a peptidomimetic portion aligned to the non-primed binding region. Biochemical evaluation toward four human cathepsins was carried out and the kinetic characterization confirmed an irreversible mode of inhibition. Compound 6c combining the most advantageous building blocks for cathepsin S inhibition was identified as a potent cathepsin S inactivator exhibiting a second-order rate constant of 30600 M?1 s?1.
Chemical introduction of the green fluorescence: Imaging of cysteine cathepsins by an irreversibly locked GFP fluorophore
Frizler, Maxim,Yampolsky, Ilia V.,Baranov, Mikhail S.,Stirnberg, Marit,Gütschow, Michael
, p. 5913 - 5921 (2013/09/12)
An activity-based probe, containing an irreversibly locked GFP-like fluorophore, was synthesized and evaluated as an inhibitor of human cathepsins and, as exemplified with cathepsin K, it proved to be suitable for ex vivo imaging and quantification of cysteine cathepsins by SDS-PAGE.
