Figure 2: Chemical structures of adenosine and potent nucleoside and non-nucleoside adenosine kinase inhibitors.
Early ADK inhibitors include NH2-dADO, 5-IT and 5’d-5IT [48]. Detailed structure-activity studies based on these molecules and optimization of novel chemotypes identified from high-throughput screening campaigns have led to the generation of the diverse array of ADK inhibitors shown here [45–55].