Synthesis and Evaluation of Keto-Glutamine Analogues as Inhibitors of Hepatitis A Virus 3C Proteinase
- 8 December 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in The Journal of Organic Chemistry
- Vol. 67 (10) , 3169-3178
- https://doi.org/10.1021/jo0157831
Abstract
Hepatitis A virus (HAV) 3C enzyme is a picornaviral cysteine proteinase involved in the processing of the initially synthesized viral polyprotein and is therefore important for viral maturation and infectivity. Although it is a cysteine proteinase, this enzyme has a topology similar to those of the chymotrypsin-like serine proteinases. Since the enzyme recognizes peptide substrates with a glutamine residue at the P1 site, a number of ketone-containing glutamine compounds analogous to nanomolar inhibitors of cathepsin K were synthesized and tested for inhibition against HAV 3C proteinase. In addition, a 3-azetidinone scaffold was incorporated into the glutamine fragment but gave only modest inhibition. However, introduction of a phthalhydrazido group α to the ketone moiety gave significantly better inhibitors with IC50 values ranging from 13 to 164 μM, presumably due to the effect of intramolecular hydrogen bonding to the ketone. In addition, the tetrapeptide phthalhydrazide 24 was found to be a competitive reversible inhibitor (Ki = 9 × 10-6 M) and also showed no loss of inhibitory potency in the presence of dithiothreitol.Keywords
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