Identifying common metalloprotease inhibitors by protein fold types using Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry

Autor: Sandra Duffy, Ronald J. Quinn, Terese Alnefelt, Desley Jane Pitcher, Jennifer Mitchell, Vicky M. Avery, Bernadette Marie McArdle
Rok vydání: 2007
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Zdroj: Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 17:6521-6524
ISSN: 0960-894X
DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2007.09.084
Popis: Fourteen natural products, known to inhibit other proteins of the Zincin-like fold class, were screened for inhibition of the Zincin-like fold metalloprotease thermolysin using mass spectrometry. Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry was successful in identifying actinonin, a known inhibitor of astacin and stromelysin, to be an inhibitor of thermolysin. Molecular modelling studies have shown that specificity within the Zincin-like fold is determined by Protein Fold Topology.
Databáze: OpenAIRE