Creation of Customized Bioactivity within a 14-Membered Macrolide Scaffold: Design, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation Using a Family-18 Chitinase
Sugawara, A., Maita, N., Gouda, H., Yamamoto, T., Hirose, T., Kimura, S., Saito, Y., Nakano, H., Kasai, T., Nakano, H., Shiomi, K., Hirono, S., Watanabe, T., Taniguchi, H., Omura, S., Sunazuka, T.(2015) J Med Chem 58: 4984-4997
- PubMed: 26030312 
- DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.5b00175
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
4Z2G, 4Z2H, 4Z2I, 4Z2J, 4Z2K, 4Z2L - PubMed Abstract: 
Argifin, a 17-membered pentapeptide, inhibits chitinase. As argifin has properties that render it unsuitable as a drug development candidate, we devised a mechanism to create the structural component of argifin that bestows the chitinase inhibition and introduce it into a 14-membered macrolide scaffold ...