Method and structure for inhibiting activity of serine elastases

摘要

The present invention is directed to novel inhibitors and methods for inhibiting serine elastases. These compounds and methods achieve a novel approach to enzyme inhibition; namely, balanced inhibition of a plurality of serine elastases. Balanced inhibition of a plurality of elastases offers a novel approach to therapeutic treatment of diseases that involve abnormal activities of a plurality of elastases resulting in pathological changes such as occur in inflammatory and vascular conditions. These pathological changes are not limited to the breakdown of elastin but may include the processing of other proteins by serine elastases which in turn results in adverse effects. The opportunity of targeting a plurality of enzymes using single inhibitor offers therapeutic advantages over administering multiple therapeutic against where each agent has a single specificity for an individual target enzyme.