11º SEMINARIO QUÍMICA ORGÁNICA IQUIR 2022

SEMINARIO QUÍMICA ORGÁNICA 13-06-22

EXPOSITOR: Lic. Gabriel Di Gresia

TÍTULO: "Self-Masked Aldehyde Inhibitors: A Novel Strategy for Inhibiting Cysteine Proteases".

FUENTE: Linfeng Li, Bala C. Chenna, Kai S. Yang, Taylor R. Cole, Zachary T. Goodall, Miriam Giardini, Zahra Moghadamchargari, Elizabeth A. Hernandez, Jana Gomez, Claudia M. Calvet,
Jean A. Bernatchez, Drake M. Mellott, Jiyun Zhu, Andrew Rademacher, Diane Thomas, Lauren R. Blankenship, Aleksandra Drelich, Arthur Laganowsky, Chien-Te K. Tseng, Wenshe R. Liu, A. Joshua Wand, Jorge Cruz-Reyes, Jair L. Siqueira-Neto, and Thomas D. Meek* J. Med. Chem. 2021, 64, 11267–11287.

DÍA, HORA y LUGAR: Lunes 13 de junio de 2022, 14:00 h. Plataforma MEET GOOGLE.

Link: meet.google.com/bfh-poxv-bso

RESUMEN: Cysteine proteases comprise an important class of drug targets, especially for infectious diseases such as Chagas disease (cruzain) and COVID-19 (3CL protease, cathepsin L). Peptide aldehydes have proven to be potent inhibitors for all of these proteases. However, the intrinsic, high electrophilicity of the aldehyde group is associated with safety concerns and metabolic instability, limiting the use of aldehyde inhibitors as drugs. We have developed a novel class of self-masked aldehyde inhibitors (SMAIs) for cruzain, the major cysteine protease of the causative agent of Chagas disease—Trypanosoma cruzi. These SMAIs exerted potent, reversible inhibition of cruzain (Ki* = 18–350 nM) while apparently protecting the free aldehyde in cell-based assays. We synthesized prodrugs of the SMAIs that could potentially improve their pharmacokinetic properties. We also elucidated the kinetic and chemical mechanism of SMAIs and applied this strategy to the design of anti-SARS-CoV-2 inhibitors.