Structure based development of phenylimidazole-derived inhibitors of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase.

ABSTRACT: Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) is emerging as an important new therapeutic target for the treatment of cancer, chronic viral infections, and other diseases characterized by pathological immune suppression. With the goal of developing more potent IDO inhibitors, a systematic study of 4-phenylimidazole (4-PI) derivatives was undertaken. Computational docking experiments guided design and synthesis efforts with analogues of 4-PI. In particular, three interactions of 4-PI analogues with IDO were studied: the active site entrance, the interior of the active site, and the heme iron binding. The three most potent inhibitors (1, 17, and 18) appear to exploit interactions with C129 and S167 in the interior of the active site. All three inhibitors are approximately 10-fold more potent than 4-PI.

SUBMITTER: Kumar S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3159384 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature