Design, synthesis and evaluation of D-homophenylalanyl epoxysuccinate inhibitors of the trypanosomal cysteine protease cruzain

摘要

The binding modes of E-64c to papain combined with molecular modeling and ligand design using the crystal structure of cruzain have been used to develop new, potent D-Homophenylalanyl epoxysuccinate inhibitors of cruzain, the major cysteine protease of Trypanosoma cruzi. The most potent inhibitor 47 contains an O-benzyl hydroxamate unit and is highly specific for cruzain relative to other cysteine proteases tested. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. [References: 73]