Moreira, Rui; Valente, Claudia; Guedes, Rita C.; Iley, Jim; Jaffar, Mohammed and Douglas, Kenneth T.
(2007).
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | http://doi.org/10.1016/j.bmc.2007.04.068 |
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Abstract
A series of 1,4-naphthoquinone derivatives diversely substituted at C-2, C-3, C-5 and C-8, prepared by reaction of amines, amino acids and alcohols with commercial 1,4-naphthoquinones, has been evaluated against papain and bovine spleen cathepsin B. These 1,4-naphthoquinone derivatives were found to be irreversible inhibitors for both cysteine proteases, with second-order rate constants, k2, ranging from 0.67 to 35.4 M−1 s−1 for papain, and from 0.54 to 8.03 M−1 s−1 for cathepsin B. Some derivatives display a hyperbolic dependence of the first-order inactivation rate constant, kobs, with the inhibitor concentration, indicative of a specific interaction process between enzyme and inhibitor. The chemical reactivity of the compounds towards cysteine as a model thiol is dependent on the naphthoquinone LUMO energy, whereas papain inactivation is not. The 1,4-naphthoquinone derivatives are inactive against the serine protease, porcine pancreatic elastase.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| ISSN: | 0968-0896 |
| Keywords: | Quinones; papain; cathepsin B; cysteine proteases; thiols; reactivity; LUMO energy |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Life, Health and Chemical Sciences Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) |
| Item ID: | 8238 |
| Depositing User: | James Iley |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Jun 2007 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2016 13:07 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/8238 |
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