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ID: ALA1157595

Journal: J Med Chem

Title: Synthesis and biological evaluation of botulinum neurotoxin a protease inhibitors.

Authors: Li B, Pai R, Cardinale SC, Butler MM, Peet NP, Moir DT, Bavari S, Bowlin TL.

Abstract: NSC 240898 was previously identified as a botulinum neurotoxin A light chain (BoNT/A LC) endopeptidase inhibitor by screening the National Cancer Institute Open Repository diversity set. Two types of analogues have been synthesized and shown to inhibit BoNT/A LC in a FRET-based enzyme assay, with confirmation in an HPLC-based assay. These two series of compounds have also been evaluated for inhibition of anthrax lethal factor (LF), an unrelated metalloprotease, to examine enzyme specificity of the BoNT/A LC inhibition. The most potent inhibitor against BoNT/A LC in these two series is compound 12 (IC(50) = 2.5 microM, FRET assay), which is 4.4-fold more potent than the lead structure and 11.2-fold more selective for BoNT/A LC versus the anthrax LF metalloproteinase. Structure-activity relationship studies have revealed structural features important to potency and enzyme specificity.

CiteXplore: 20155918

DOI: 10.1021/jm901852f