Folate analogs as inhibitors of thymidylate synthase
- 1 April 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
- Vol. 30 (4) , 675-678
- https://doi.org/10.1021/jm00387a016
Abstract
Recent demonstrations that deazafolate analogues may act as potent inhibitors of thymidylate synthase (TS) provided a firm rationale for the synthesis of N10-propargyl derivatives of 8-deazafolate (3) and 8-deazaaminopterin (4). A complete assignment of the 1H NMR spectra of these compounds was made possible through application of 2D (COSY) techniques at 200 MHz. Data describing the inhibition of TS derived from human leukemia (K562) cells are presented. IC50 values of 2.25 and 1.26 .mu.M were determined for 8-deaza-10-propargylfolate and 8-deaza-10-propargylaminopterin, respectively. Comparison of the data for various folate analogues reveals a striking dependence of TS inhibitory potency upon the number of nitrogens in the folate pyrazine ring.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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