Hanaoka, Kenjiro published the artcileDiscovery and Mechanistic Characterization of Selective Inhibitors of H2S-producing Enzyme: 3-Mercaptopyruvate Sulfurtransferase (3MST) Targeting Active-site Cysteine Persulfide, Safety of 6-Methyl-2-((2-(naphthalen-1-yl)-2-oxoethyl)thio)pyrimidin-4(3H)-one, the publication is Scientific Reports (2017), 40227, database is CAplus and MEDLINE.
Very recent studies indicate that sulfur atoms with oxidation state 0 or -1, called sulfane sulfurs, are the actual mediators of some physiol. processes previously considered to be regulated by hydrogen sulfide (H2S). 3-Mercaptopyruvate sulfurtransferase (3MST), one of three H2S-producing enzymes, was also recently shown to produce sulfane sulfur (H2Sn). Here, we report the discovery of several potent 3MST inhibitors by means of high-throughput screening (HTS) of a large chem. library (174,118 compounds) with our H2S-selective fluorescent probe, HSip-1. Most of the identified inhibitors had similar aromatic ring-carbonyl-S-pyrimidone structures. Among them, compound 3 showed very high selectivity for 3MST over other H2S/sulfane sulfur-producing enzymes and rhodanese. The X-ray crystal structures of 3MST complexes with two of the inhibitors revealed that their target is a persulfurated cysteine residue located in the active site of 3MST. Precise theor. calculations indicated the presence of a strong long-range electrostatic interaction between the persulfur anion of the persulfurated cysteine residue and the pos. charged carbonyl carbon of the pyrimidone moiety of the inhibitor. Our results also provide the exptl. support for the idea that the 3MST-catalyzed reaction with 3-mercaptopyruvate proceeds via a ping-pong mechanism.
Scientific Reports published new progress about 459420-09-8. 459420-09-8 belongs to pyrimidines, auxiliary class Metabolic Enzyme,3MST, name is 6-Methyl-2-((2-(naphthalen-1-yl)-2-oxoethyl)thio)pyrimidin-4(3H)-one, and the molecular formula is C17H14N2O2S, Safety of 6-Methyl-2-((2-(naphthalen-1-yl)-2-oxoethyl)thio)pyrimidin-4(3H)-one.
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https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Pyrimidine,
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