著者
Shoji Maehara Manami Kobayashi Mari Kuwada Tominari Choshi Hirofumi Inoue Yuhzou Hieda Takashi Nishiyama Toshiyuki Hata
出版者
The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan
雑誌
Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin (ISSN:00092363)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.70, no.3, pp.195-198, 2022-03-01 (Released:2022-03-01)
参考文献数
17
被引用文献数
4

We investigated similar compounds to ebselen and tideglusib, which exhibit strong activity against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), using Molecular ACCess System (MACCS) keys. Four candidate compounds were identified. One of them, phenyl-benzothiazol-3-one, showed coronavirus-specific 3C-like (3CL) protease inhibitory activity. The results indicated that a similarity score above 0.81 is a good indicator of activity for ebselen-and-tideglusib-like compounds. Subsequently, we simulated the ring-cleavage Michael reaction of ebselen at the Se center, which is responsible for its 3CL protease inhibitory activity, and determined the activation free energy of the reaction. The results showed that reaction simulation is a useful tool for estimating the activity of inhibitory compounds that undergo Michael addition reactions with the relevant cysteine S atom of 3CL proteases.
著者
Nobuyuki Okamura Hidetoshi Miyauchi Tominari Choshi Takashi Ishizu Akira Yagi
出版者
The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan
雑誌
Biological and Pharmaceutical Bulletin (ISSN:09186158)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.26, no.5, pp.658-661, 2003 (Released:2003-05-01)
参考文献数
19
被引用文献数
7 9

A method for semi-micro high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) has been established for the simultaneous determination of 3α-hydroxyglycyrrhetic acid and 3-dehydroglycyrrhetic acid together with glycyrrhizin, glycyrrhetic acid and glycyrrhetic acid mono-glucuronide formed by incubation of glycyrrhizin with rat feces. The analysis was accomplished within 25 min with a TSKgel ODS-80TsQA (150×2.0 mm i.d.) column by linear gradient elution using a mobile phase containing aqueous phosphoric acid and acetonitrile at a flow rate of 0.2 ml·min−1, a thermostatic oven at 25 °C, and detection at 254 nm. The detection limits of these compounds were 0.2 pmol per injection (5 μl). The metabolites of glycyrrhizin, by anaerobic or aerobic incubation with rat fecal suspension over 48 h, were determined. Glycyrrhizin was almost completely converted to metabolite glycyrrhetic acid, and metabolites 3α-hydroxyglycyrrhetic acid and 3-dehydroglycyrrhetic acid in negligible amounts in anaerobic conditions. However, the metabolic time courses of 3-dehydroglycyrrhetic acid when incubated in aerobic conditions revealed that it apparently continued increasing during the whole incubation period.