Structure-Guided Design, Synthesis, and Evaluation of Guanine-Derived Inhibitors of the eIF4E mRNA-Cap Interaction.
Chen, X., Kopecky, D.J., Mihalic, J., Jeffries, S., Min, X., Heath, J., Deignan, J., Lai, S., Fu, Z., Guimaraes, C., Shen, S., Li, S., Johnstone, S., Thibault, S., Xu, H., Cardozo, M., Shen, W., Walker, N., Kayser, F., Wang, Z.(2012) J Med Chem 55: 3837-3851
- PubMed: 22458568 
- DOI: 10.1021/jm300037x
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
4DT6, 4DUM - PubMed Abstract: 
The eukaryotic initiation factor 4E (eIF4E) plays a central role in the initiation of gene translation and subsequent protein synthesis by binding the 5' terminal mRNA cap structure. We designed and synthesized a series of novel compounds that display potent binding affinity against eIF4E despite their lack of a ribose moiety, phosphate, and positive charge as present in m7-GMP ...