Novel morpholinone-based D-Phe-Pro-Arg mimics as potential thrombin inhibitors : design, synthesis, and X-ray crystal structure of an enzyme inhibitor complex

• A morpholinone structural motif derived from d(+)- and l(−)-malic acid has been used as a mimic of d-Phe-Pro in the thrombin inhibiting tripeptide d-Phe-Pro-Arg. In place of Arg the more rigid P1 truncated p-amidinobenzylamine (Pab) or 2-amino-5-aminomethyl-3-methyl-pyridine have been utilized. The synthetic strategy developed readily delivers these novel thrombin inhibitors used to probe the α-thrombin inhibitor binding site. The best candidate in this series of thrombin inhibitors exhibits an in vitro IC50 of 720 nM. The X-ray crystal structure of this candidate co-crystallized with α-thrombin is discussed.

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