Fredo Naciuk, Fabricio published the artcileDevelopment of Selective Steroid Inhibitors for the Glucose-6-phosphate Dehydrogenase from Trypanosoma cruzi, Category: alcohols-buliding-blocks, the publication is ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters (2020), 11(6), 1250-1256, database is CAplus and MEDLINE.
Chagas disease is a parasitic infection affecting millions of people across Latin America, imposing a dramatic socioeconomic burden. Despite the availability of drugs nifurtimox and benznidazole, lack of efficacy and incidence of side-effects prompt the identification of novel, efficient, and affordable drug candidates. To address this issue, one strategy could be probing the susceptibility of Trypanosoma parasites toward NADP-dependent enzyme inhibitors. Recently, steroids of the androstane group have been described as highly potent but nonselective inhibitors of parasitic glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH). In order to promote selectivity, we have synthesized and evaluated 26 steroid derivatives of epiandrosterone, e.g., I, in enzymic assays, whereby 17 compounds were shown to display moderate to high selectivity for T. cruzi over the human G6PDH. In addition, three compounds were effective in killing intracellular T. cruzi forms infecting rat cardiomyocytes. Altogether, this study provides new SAR data around G6PDH and further supports this target for treating Chagas disease.
ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters published new progress about 57044-25-4. 57044-25-4 belongs to alcohols-buliding-blocks, auxiliary class Epoxides,Chiral,Aliphatic hydrocarbon chain,Alcohol, name is (R)-Oxiran-2-ylmethanol, and the molecular formula is C3H6O2, Category: alcohols-buliding-blocks.
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