Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8107, USA.
Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2010 Oct 1;20(19):5811-4. doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2010.07.129. Epub 2010 Aug 3.
The cytokine MIF is involved in inflammation and cell proliferation via pathways initiated by its binding to the transmembrane receptor CD74. MIF also exhibits keto-enol tautomerase activity, believed to be vestigial in mammals. Starting from a 1 μM hit from virtual screening, substituted benzoxazol-2-ones have been discovered as antagonists with IC(50) values as low as 7.5 nM in a tautomerase assay and 80 nM in a MIF-CD74 binding assay. Additional studies for one of the potent inhibitors demonstrated that it is not a covalent inhibitor of MIF and that it attenuates MIF-dependent ERK1/2 phosphorylation in human synovial fibroblasts.
细胞因子 MIF 通过其与跨膜受体 CD74 结合所引发的途径参与炎症和细胞增殖。MIF 还表现出酮-烯醇互变异构酶活性,这种活性在哺乳动物中被认为是残余的。从虚拟筛选的 1 μM 命中物开始,已经发现取代的苯并恶唑-2-酮作为拮抗剂,在互变异构酶测定中 IC(50)值低至 7.5 nM,在 MIF-CD74 结合测定中 IC(50)值低至 80 nM。对一种强效抑制剂的进一步研究表明,它不是 MIF 的共价抑制剂,并且它可以减弱人滑膜成纤维细胞中 MIF 依赖性 ERK1/2 磷酸化。