N-(4-Substituted-benzoyl)-N'-(β-d-glucopyranosyl)ureas as inhibitors of glycogen phosphorylase: Synthesis and evaluation by kinetic, crystallographic, and molecular modelling methods.

Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary.

Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry 2012 Mar 1

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N-(4-Substituted-benzoyl)-N'-(β-d-glucopyranosyl) ureas (substituents: Me, Ph, Cl, OH, OMe, NO(2), NH(2), COOH, and COOMe) were synthesised by ZnCl(2) catalysed acylation of O-peracetylated β-d-glucopyranosyl urea as well as in reactions of O-peracetylated or O-unprotected glucopyranosylamines and acyl-isocyanates. O-deprotections were carried out by base or acid catalysed transesterifications where necessary. Kinetic studies revealed that most of these compounds were low micromolar inhibitors of rabbit muscle glycogen phosphorylase b (RMGPb). The best inhibitor was the 4-methylbenzoyl compound (K(i)=2.3μM). Crystallographic analyses of complexes of several of the compounds with RMGPb showed that the analogues exploited, together with water molecules, the available space at the β-pocket subsite and induced a more extended shift of the 280s loop compared to RMGPb in complex with the unsubstituted benzoyl urea. The results suggest the key role of the water molecules in ligand bind ing and structure-based ligand design. Molecular docking study of selected inhibitors was done to show the ability of the binding affinity prediction. The binding affinity of the highest scored docked poses was calculated and correlated with experimentally measured K(i) values. Results show that correlation is high with the R-squared (R(2)) coefficient over 0.9. Copyright Â© 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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Veronika Nagy, Nóra Felföldi, Bálint Kónya, Jean-Pierre Praly, Tibor Docsa, Pál Gergely, Evangelia D Chrysina, Costas Tiraidis, Magda N Kosmopoulou, Kyra-Melinda Alexacou, Maria Konstantakaki, Demetres D Leonidas, Spyros E Zographos, Nikos G Oikonomakos, Stanislav Kozmon, Igor Tvaroška, László Somsák. N-(4-Substituted-benzoyl)-N'-(β-d-glucopyranosyl)ureas as inhibitors of glycogen phosphorylase: Synthesis and evaluation by kinetic, crystallographic, and molecular modelling methods. Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry. 2012 Mar 1;20(5):1801-16