Guest Open Access | Free Content | About | Sign in | New Users: Sign up | Mark List  

 

Protein and Peptide Letters

Volume 16 Issue 4
ISSN: 0929-8665

 

   All Titles

  Low-Molecular-Weight Aldehyde Inhibitors of Cathepsin G
  pp.408-410 (3) Authors: Adam Lesner, Magdalena Wysocka, Marta Solek, Anna Legowska, Krzysztof Rolka
 
 
      Abstract

A series of aldehyde inhibitors with the general formula Ac-Phe-Val-Thr-X-CHO, where X = Lys, Arg, Phe, Tyr, p-nitro-L-phenylalanine (Nif), p-amino-L-phenylalanine (Amf), p-guanidine-L-phenylalanine (Gnf), pyridyl-L-alanine (Pal), was synthesized. The starting structure of this series based on our previous work on cathepsin G chromogenic substrates. The synthesis of all compounds was performed in solid phase applying Fmoc chemistry. We investigated the inhibitory potency of the obtained compounds against cathepsin G and bovine α-chymotrypsin and evaluated their dissociation constants (Ki). The studied peptides displayed different inhibition profiles and potency. As a result, a potent and selective inhibitor of cathepsin G with the sequence Ac-Phe-Val-Thr-Gnf-CHO, displaying Ki = 22 nM was obtained.

 
  Keywords: Cathepsin G, chymotrypsin, peptide aldehydes, peptidomimetics
  Affiliation: Faculty of Chemistry, University of Gdansk, 80-952 Gdansk, Sobieskiego 18/19, Poland.
 
  Key: New Content Free Content Open Access Subscribed Content

 
Bentham Science Publishers
www.bentham.org

  Copyright © 1994 - 2010   Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.