Identification and optimization of inhibitors of trypanosomal cysteine proteases: cruzain, rhodesain, and TbCatB.
Mott, B.T., Ferreira, R.S., Simeonov, A., Jadhav, A., Ang, K.K., Leister, W., Shen, M., Silveira, J.T., Doyle, P.S., Arkin, M.R., McKerrow, J.H., Inglese, J., Austin, C.P., Thomas, C.J., Shoichet, B.K., Maloney, D.J.(2010) J Med Chem 53: 52-60
- PubMed: 19908842 
- DOI: 10.1021/jm901069a
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3I06 - PubMed Abstract: 
Trypanosoma cruzi and Trypanosoma brucei are parasites that cause Chagas' disease and African sleeping sickness, respectively. Both parasites rely on essential cysteine proteases for survival: cruzain for T. cruzi and TbCatB/rhodesain for T. brucei. A recent quantitative high-throughput screen of cruzain identified triazine nitriles, which are known inhibitors of other cysteine proteases, as reversible inhibitors of the enzyme ...