Guoyan G. Xu, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA and Felicia A. Etzkorn, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA.
Inhibition of Pin1, the essential cell cycle regulator, is likely to lead to interesting biological activities, and inhibitors of Pin1 may serve as anti-cancer drugs. A twisted amide mechanism was proposed based on the mechanistic study on CyP and FKBP. The reduced amide peptide analogues 1 and 2 for Pin1 and CyP respectively were designed based on the likely "twisted amide" isomerization mechanism and synthesized. Both of them were synthesized through 6 steps in 12% yield for the analogue 1, and 27% yield for the analogue 2. The analogue 1 inhibited Pin with the IC50 in a low micromolar and the analogue 2 inhibited CyP with the IC50 in milimolar.

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