Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Metabolically Labile Fumarate Esters Impart Kinetic Selectivity to Irreversible Inhibitors

Metabolically Labile Fumarate Esters Impart Kinetic Selectivity to Irreversible Inhibitors

Balyn W. Zaro, Landon R. Whitby, Kenneth M. Lum, and Benjamin F. Cravatt*
The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology and Department of Chemical Physiology, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California 92037, United States
J. Am. Chem. Soc.2016138 (49), pp 15841–15844

The use of a fumarate ester warhead is found to confer greater selectivity than a simple acrylamide warhead for inhibition of Bruton's Tyrosine Kinase (BTK).

Covalent Inhibitors of Monoacylglycerol Lipase Induce Conformational Changes and Proteasomal Degradation

Jordan A. Pham, Thanawat Thaingtamtanha, William McLeish, David Lefebvre, Spencer M. Uguccioni, Roxana Filip, Francesco Gentile, and John Pa...