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Publication Abstract from PubMed

N-Myristoyltransferase (NMT) represents an attractive drug target in parasitic infections such as malaria due to its genetic essentiality and amenability to inhibition by drug-like small molecules. Scaffold simplification from previously reported inhibitors containing bicyclic cores identified phenyl derivative 3, providing a versatile platform to study the effects of substitution on the scaffold, which yielded pyridyl 19. This molecule exhibited improved enzyme and cellular potency, and reduced lipophilicity compared to inhibitor 3. Further structure-based inhibitor design led to the discovery of 30, the most potent inhibitor in this series, which showed single-digit nM enzyme affinity and sub-muM anti-plasmodial activity.

Discovery of pyridyl-based inhibitors of -myristoyltransferase.,Yu Z, Brannigan JA, Rangachari K, Heal WP, Wilkinson AJ, Holder AA, Leatherbarrow RJ, Tate EW Medchemcomm. 2015 Oct 8;6(10):1767-1772. Epub 2015 Aug 19. PMID:26962430^[1]

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