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A Molecular Hybridization Approach for the Design of Potent, Highly Selective, and Brain-Penetrant N-Myristoyltransferase Inhibitors.

ABSTRACT: Crystallography has guided the hybridization of two series of Trypanosoma brucei N-myristoyltransferase (NMT) inhibitors, leading to a novel highly selective series. The effect of combining the selectivity enhancing elements from two pharmacophores is shown to be additive and has led to compounds that have greater than 1000-fold selectivity for TbNMT vs HsNMT. Further optimization of the hybrid series has identified compounds with significant trypanocidal activity capable of crossing the blood-brain barrier. By using CF-1 mdr1a deficient mice, we were able to demonstrate full cures in vivo in a mouse model of stage 2 African sleeping sickness. This and previous work provides very strong validation for NMT as a drug target for human African trypanosomiasis in both the peripheral and central nervous system stages of disease.

SUBMITTER: Harrison JR

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6167002 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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A Molecular Hybridization Approach for the Design of Potent, Highly Selective, and Brain-Penetrant N-Myristoyltransferase Inhibitors.

Harrison Justin R JR Brand Stephen S Smith Victoria V Robinson David A DA Thompson Stephen S Smith Alasdair A Davies Kenneth K Mok Ngai N Torrie Leah S LS Collie Iain I Hallyburton Irene I Norval Suzanne S Simeons Frederick R C FRC Stojanovski Laste L Frearson Julie A JA Brenk Ruth R Wyatt Paul G PG Gilbert Ian H IH Read Kevin D KD

Journal of medicinal chemistry 20180912 18

Crystallography has guided the hybridization of two series of Trypanosoma brucei N-myristoyltransferase (NMT) inhibitors, leading to a novel highly selective series. The effect of combining the selectivity enhancing elements from two pharmacophores is shown to be additive and has led to compounds that have greater than 1000-fold selectivity for TbNMT vs HsNMT. Further optimization of the hybrid series has identified compounds with significant trypanocidal activity capable of crossing the blood-b ...[more]

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A Molecular Hybridization Approach for the Design of Potent, Highly Selective, and Brain-Penetrant N-Myristoyltransferase Inhibitors.

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A Molecular Hybridization Approach for the Design of Potent, Highly Selective, and Brain-Penetrant N-Myristoyltransferase Inhibitors.

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