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Published on: May 27, 2015
Synthesis and LAR inhibition of 7-alkoxy analogues of illudalic acid
Qing Ling1, Yue-Yang Zhou, Zheng-Liang Cai
1State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy ofSciences, Shanghai 201203, China.
Abstract:
To obtain higher potency and specificity, a series of 7-alkoxy analogues of illudalic acid was synthesized on the base of structure-activity relationship (SAR). All of these compounds exhibited submicromolar inhibition of the enzyme when tested against human leukocyte common antigen-related phosphatase (LAR) (for example, for 15e, IC50 = 180 nmol x L(-1)). They represent the most potent small-molecule inhibitors of LAR so far. These analogues also display excellent selectivity for LAR over other protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs) except for the highly homologous PTPsigma. The compound 15f is of 120-fold selectivity for LAR versus PTP-1B inhibition. The development of potent enzyme-specific inhibitors is so important that they may serve both as tools to study the role of LAR and as therapeutic agents for treatment of type II diabetes.
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