Table 1. Enzyme affinity and parasitic LE for mono- and bicyclic analogues 1, 5 and 6 .
No. | Structure | clog P a | PfNMT |
PvNMT |
LdNMT |
HsNMT K i (μM) | |||
K i (μM) | LE b | K i (μM) | LE | K i (μM) | LE | ||||
1 |
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4.0 | 0.83 | 0.30 | 0.08 | 0.35 | 5.82 | 0.28 | 3.20 |
5 |
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2.9 | >100 | — | 6.50 | 0.30 | 0.73 | 0.35 | >100 |
6 |
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3.0 | 6.00 | 0.29 | 2.42 | 0.31 | 0.28 | 0.36 | >100 |
aclog P values calculated with ChemAxon.
bLE = [–log(K i)](1.374)/(no. of heavy atoms).