A key part of the optimization of small molecules in pharmaceutical inhibitor development is to vary the molecular design to enhance complementarity of chemical features of the compound with the positioning of amino acids in the active site of a target enzyme. Typically this involves iterations of synthesis, to modify the compound, and biophysical assay, to assess the outcomes. Selective targeting of the anti-cancer carbonic anhydrase isoform XII (CA XII), this process is challenging because the overall fold is very similar across the twelve CA isoforms. To enhance drug development for CA XII we used a reverse engineering approach where mutation of the key six amino acids in the active site of human CA XII into the CA II isoform was performed to provide a protein chimera (chCA XII) which is amenable to structure-based compound optimization. Through determination of structural detail and affinity measurement of the interaction with over 60 compounds we observed that the compounds that bound CA XII more strongly than CA II, switched their preference and bound more strongly to the engineered chimera, chCA XII, based on CA II, but containing the 6 key amino acids from CA XII, behaved as CA XII in its compound recognition profile. The structures of the compounds in the chimeric active site also resembled those determined for complexes with CA XII, hence validating this protein engineering approach in the development of new inhibitors. 相似文献
Conditional cleavage : Photochemical S? N bond cleavage of the Zn2+ complex of N‐dansylcyclen (ZnL2) in aqueous solution was investigated. Moreover, photolysis of ZnL2 (see scheme) facilitated photoreversion of cis,syn‐thymine photodimer (T[c,s]T).
In this paper, we present for the first time the evaluation of cytotoxicity and genotoxicity of de novo synthesized pyrazolo[4,3-e]tetrazolo[1,5-b][1,2,4]triazine sulfonamides MM129, MM130, and MM131 in human tumor cell lines: HeLa, HCT 116, PC-3, and BxPC-3. Cytotoxic and genotoxic properties of the tested compounds were estimated using the MTT assay, comet assay (alkaline and neutral version), and γ-H2AX immuno-staining. Examined sulfonamides exhibited strong anticancer properties towards tested cells in a very low concentration range (IC50 = 0.17–1.15 μM) after 72 h exposure time. The results of the alkaline and neutral version of the comet assay following 24 h incubation of the cells with tested compounds demonstrated the capability of heterocycles to induce significant DNA damage in exposed cells. HCT 116 cells were the most sensitive to the genotoxic activity of novel tricyclic pyrazolo[4,3-e]tetrazolo[1,5-b][1,2,4]triazine sulfonamides in the neutral version of the comet assay. Immunocytochemical detection of γ-H2AX showed an increase in DNA DSBs level in the HCT 116 cell line, after 24 h incubation with all tested compounds, confirming the results obtained in the neutral comet assay. Among all investigated compounds, MM131 showed the strongest cytotoxic and genotoxic activity toward all tested cell types. In conclusion, our results suggest that MM129, MM130, and MM131 exhibit high cytotoxic and genotoxic potential in vitro, especially towards the colorectal cancer cell line HCT 116. However, further investigations and analyses are required for their future implementation in the field of medicine. 相似文献
Summary VX-478 belongs to a novel class of HIV-1 protease inhibitors that are based on N,N-disubstituted benzene sulfonamides. Force field parameters for the N,N-dialkyl benzene sulfonamide moiety have been assembled from the literature and from our own ab initio calculations. These parameters were employed to calculate solvation and binding free energy differences between VX-478 and two analogs. The free energy perturbation method has been used to determine these differences using two approaches. In the first approach, intergroup interaction terms only were included in the calculation of free energies (as in most reports of free energy calculations using AMBER). In the second approach, both the inter- and intragroup interaction terms were included. The results obtained with the two approaches are in excellent agreement with each other and are also in close agreement with the experimental results. The solvation free energies of N,N-dimethyl benzene sulfonamide derivatives (truncated models of the inhibitors), calculated using continuum solvation (AMSOL) methods, are found to be in qualitative agreement with the experimental and free energy perturbation results. The binding and solvation free energy results are discussed in the context of structure-based drug design to show how physicochemical properties (for example aqueous solubilities and bioavailabilities) of these HIV-1 protease inhibitors were improved, while maintaining their inhibitory potency. 相似文献
The interaction of sulfonamides with 4,5-dihydroxyimidazolidin-2-ones was studied for the first time. The earlier unknown
4,4′-sulfonyldiiminobis(1,3-dialkylimidazolidin-2-ones) and 4(5)-aryl(alkyl)-sulfonyliminoimidazolidin-2-ones were synthesized.
A probable pathway of the reaction was proposed. 1,3-Diethyl-4,5-dihydroxyimidazolidin-2-one was isolated and described.
Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 8, pp. 1604–1607, August, 1998. 相似文献
Octanol-water partition coefficients (Po/w) of 17 sulfonamides (SAs) were determined by countercurrent chromatography (CCC). The measured Po/w values were in the 0.002–46 range (–2.65 < log Po/w< 1.7). The lipophility of these compounds depends on the pH showing a maximum for intermediate values. The apparent Po/w coefficients of SAs were obtained at 5 pH values: 2, 3, 5, 7 and 11, using 0.01 M ammonium phosphate octanol saturated buffers. A theoretical model linking these values with pH for amphoteric compounds was checked and verified. Often the Po/w coefficients of the molecular forms obtained with the CCC method differ significantly from literature values obtained using softwares and/or from experimental values calculated with extrapolation. The CCC method allows also the determination of the Po/w coefficients of the ionic forms of the SAs, cationic forms at low pH values and anionic forms at elevated pHs. The acidity constants were also estimated using the theoretical model. Relationships between SA retention factors obtained by RPLC and hydrophobicity were also discussed. 相似文献