869487-76-3Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Systematic comparison of peptidic proteasome inhibitors highlights the α-ketoamide electrophile as an auspicious reversible lead motif
Stein, Martin L.,Cui, Haissi,Beck, Philipp,Dubiella, Christian,Voss, Constantin,Krueger, Achim,Schmidt, Boris,Groll, Michael
, p. 1679 - 1683 (2014/03/21)
The ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) has been successfully targeted by both academia and the pharmaceutical industry for oncological and immunological applications. Typical proteasome inhibitors are based on a peptidic backbone endowed with an electrophi
HIV protease-mediated activation of sterically capped proteasome inhibitors and substrates
Buckley, Dennis L.,Corson, Timothy W.,Aberle, Nicholas,Crews, Craig M.
supporting information; experimental part, p. 698 - 700 (2011/04/15)
Strategies for selectively killing HIV-infected cells present an appealing alternative to traditional antiretroviral drugs. We show here the first example of an inactive "Trojan horse" molecule that releases a cytotoxic, smallmolecule proteasome inhibitor upon cleavage by HIV-1 protease. As a proof-of-concept strategy, the protein avidin was used to block entry of the compound into the proteasome in the absence of HIV-1 protease. We demonstrate that this strategy is also feasible without requiring an exogenous protein; a polylysine dendrimer-containing molecule is unable to enter the proteasome until cleaved by HIV-1 protease. These results demonstrate that conditional proteasome inhibitors could prove useful in the development of new tools for chemical biology and future therapeutics.
