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Structure Kinetics Relationships and Molecular Dynamics Show Crucial Role for Heterocycle Leaving Group in Irreversible Diacylglycerol Lipase Inhibitors
Janssen, Antonius P.A.,Van Hengst, Jacob M.A.,Béquignon, Olivier J.M.,Deng, Hui,Van Westen, Gerard J.P.,Van Der Stelt, Mario
, p. 7910 - 7922 (2019)
Drug discovery programs of covalent irreversible, mechanism-based enzyme inhibitors often focus on optimization of potency as determined by IC50-values in biochemical assays. These assays do not allow the characterization of the binding activity (Ki) and reactivity (kinact) as individual kinetic parameters of the covalent inhibitors. Here, we report the development of a kinetic substrate assay to study the influence of the acidity (pKa) of heterocyclic leaving group of triazole urea derivatives as diacylglycerol lipase (DAGL)-α inhibitors. Surprisingly, we found that the reactivity of the inhibitors did not correlate with the pKa of the leaving group, whereas the position of the nitrogen atoms in the heterocyclic core determined to a large extent the binding activity of the inhibitor. This finding was confirmed and clarified by molecular dynamics simulations on the covalently bound Michaelis-Menten complex. A deeper understanding of the binding properties of covalent serine hydrolase inhibitors is expected to aid in the discovery and development of more selective covalent inhibitors.
Chiral disubstituted piperidinyl ureas: A class of dual diacylglycerol lipase-α and ABHD6 inhibitors
Deng, Hui,Van Der Wel, Tom,Van Den Berg, Richard J.B.H.N.,Van Den Nieuwendijk, Adrianus M.C.H.,Janssen, Freek J.,Baggelaar, Marc P.,Overkleeft, Hermen S.,Van Der Stelt, Mario
, p. 982 - 988 (2017/07/12)
Inhibitors of diacylglycerol lipases and α,β-hydrolase domain containing protein 6 (ABHD6) are potential leads for the development of therapeutic agents for metabolic and neurodegenerative disorders. Here, we report the enantioselective synthesis and structure activity relationships of triazole ureas featuring chiral, hydroxylated 2-benzylpiperidines as dual inhibitors of DAGLα and ABHD6. The chirality of the carbon bearing the C2 substituent, as well as the position of the hydroxyl (tolerated at C5, but not at C3) has profound influence on the inhibitory activity of both DAGLα and ABHD6, as established using biochemical assays and competitive activity-based protein profiling on mouse brain extracts.
