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Wing Y Tsang1, Naveed Ahmed, Lindsay P Harding
1Department of Chemical and Biological Sciences, The University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, HD1 3DH, UK.
Abstract:
beta-Sultams are the sulfonyl analogues of beta-lactams, and 3-oxo-beta-sultams are both beta-lactams and beta-sultams and, therefore, susceptible to nucleophilic attack at either the acyl or the sulfonyl center. They are novel inactivators of serine enzymes. The second-order rate constant for the inactivation of elastase at pH 6 by N-benzyl-4,4-dimethyl-3-oxo-beta-sultam is 768 M-1 s-1, which is 103-fold greater than that with N-benzoyl beta-sultam. However, in contrast to N-acyl beta-sultams, which sulfonylate the active site serine residue to form a sulfonate ester, 3-oxo-beta-sultams inhibit the enzyme by acylation followed by slow deacylation to regenerate the active enzyme.
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