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ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
Volume 58, Issue 12, Pages 4051-4055Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201812348
Keywords
drug design; medicinal chemistry; peptidomimetics; structural biology; structure-activity relationship
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- NIGMS [P41-GM103311]
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De novo drug discovery is still a challenge in the search for potent and selective modulators of therapeutically relevant target proteins. Here, we disclose the unexpected discovery of a peptidic ligand 1 by X-ray crystallography, which was auto-tailored by the therapeutic target MMP-13 through partial self-degradation and subsequent structure-based optimization to a highly potent and selective beta-sheet peptidomimetic inhibitor derived from the endogenous tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases (TIMPs). The incorporation of non-proteinogenic amino acids in combination with a cyclization strategy proved to be key for the de novo design of TIMP peptidomimetics. The optimized cyclic peptide 4 (ZHAWOC7726) is membrane permeable with an IC50 of 21 nM for MMP-13 and an attractive selectivity profile with respect to a polypharmacology approach including the anticancer targets MMP-2 (IC50: 170 nM) and MMP-9 (IC50: 140 nM).
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