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SUBMITTER: Blobaum AL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3654564 | biostudies-literature | 2013 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Blobaum Anna L AL Uddin Md Jashim MJ Felts Andrew S AS Crews Brenda C BC Rouzer Carol A CA Marnett Lawrence J LJ
ACS medicinal chemistry letters 20130325 5
Indomethacin is a potent, time-dependent, nonselective inhibitor of the cyclooxygenase enzymes (COX-1 and COX-2). Deletion of the 2'-methyl group of indomethacin produces a weak, reversible COX inhibitor, leading us to explore functionality at that position. Here, we report that substitution of the 2'-methyl group of indomethacin with trifluoromethyl produces CF<sub>3</sub>-indomethacin, a tight-binding inhibitor with kinetic properties similar to those of indomethacin and unexpected COX-2 selec ...[more]