PMID: 20022498

Authors:

Rosner KE, Guo Z, Orth P, Shipps GW Jr, Belanger DB, Chan TY, Curran PJ, Dai C, Deng Y, Girijavallabhan VM, Hong L, Lavey BJ, Lee JF, Li D, Liu Z, Popovici-Muller J, Ting PC, Vaccaro H, Wang L, Wang T, Yu W, Zhou G, Niu X, Sun J, Kozlowski JA, Lundell DJ, Madison V, McKittrick B, Piwinski JJ, Shih NY, Arshad Siddiqui M, Strickland CO

Title:

The discovery of novel tartrate-based TNF-alpha converting enzyme (TACE) inhibitors.

Journal:

Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2010 Feb 1;20(3):1189-93. Epub 2009 Dec 5.

Abstract:

A novel series of TNF-alpha convertase (TACE) inhibitors which are non-hydroxamate have been discovered. These compounds are bis-amides of L-tartaric acid (tartrate) and coordinate to the active site zinc in a tridentate manner. They are selective for TACE over other MMP's. We report the first X-ray crystal structure for a tartrate-based TACE inhibitor.