Identification of Novel Parasitic Cysteine Protease Inhibitors Using Virtual Screening. 1. The ChemBridge Database

Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
2004.0

Abstract

Trypanosomiasis, leishmaniasis, and malaria are major parasitic diseases in developing countries. The existing chemotherapy of these diseases suffers from lack of safe and effective drugs and/or the presence of widespread drug resistance. Cysteine proteases are exciting novel targets for antiparasitic drug design. Virtual screening was performed in an attempt to identify novel druglike nonpeptide inhibitors of parasitic cysteine proteases. The ChemBridge database consisting of approximately 241 000 compounds was screened against homology models of falcipain-2 and falcipain-3 in three consecutive stages of docking. A total of 24 diverse inhibitors were identified from an initial group of 84, of which 12 compounds appeared to be dual inhibitors of falcipain-2 and falcipain-3. Four compounds showed inhibition of both the malarial cysteine proteases as well as Leishmania donovani cysteine protease.

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