Selective Inhibitors of Human mPGES-1 from Structure-Based Computational Screening

Authors

Ziyuan Zhou, University of KentuckyFollow
Yaxia Yuan, University of KentuckyFollow
Shuo Zhou, University of KentuckyFollow
Kai Ding, University of KentuckyFollow
Fang Zheng, University of KentuckyFollow
Chang-Guo Zhan, University of KentuckyFollow

Abstract

Human mPGES-1 is recognized as a promising target for next generation of anti-inflammatory drugs. Although various mPGES-1 inhibitors have been reported in literature, few have entered clinical trials and none has been proven clinically useful so far. It is highly desired for developing the next generation of therapeutics for inflammation-related diseases to design and discover novel inhibitors of mPGES-1 with new scaffolds. Here, we report the identification of a series of new, potent and selective inhibitors of human mPGES-1 with diverse scaffolds through combined computational and experimental studies. The computationally modeled binding structures of these new inhibitors with mPGES-1 provide some interesting clues for rational design of modified structures of the inhibitors to more favorably bind with mPGES-1.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

8-15-2017

Notes/Citation Information

Published in Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, v. 27, issue 16, p. 3739-3743.

© 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

This manuscript version is made available under the CC‐BY‐NC‐ND 4.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.

The document available for download is the author's post-peer-review final draft of the article.

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bmcl.2017.06.075

Funding Information

This work was supported in part by the funding of the Molecular Modeling and Biopharmaceutical Center at the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy, the National Science Foundation (NSF grant CHE-1111761), and the National Institutes of Health via the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (UL1TR001998) grant. Z.Z. thanks the China Scholarship Council for a scholarship support for his graduate studies at the University of Kentucky.

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Repository Citation

Zhou, Ziyuan; Yuan, Yaxia; Zhou, Shuo; Ding, Kai; Zheng, Fang; and Zhan, Chang-Guo, "Selective Inhibitors of Human mPGES-1 from Structure-Based Computational Screening" (2017). Molecular Modeling and Biopharmaceutical Center Faculty Publications. 16.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/mmbc_facpub/16