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CHEMICAL RESEARCH IN TOXICOLOGY
Volume 33, Issue 4, Pages 955-966Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrestox.9b00504
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- Universita del Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy
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Despite the isolation of hundreds of bioactive isocyanides from terrestrial fungi and bacteria as well as marine organisms, the isocyanide functionality has so far received little attention from a medicinal chemistry standpoint. The widespread tenet that isocyanides are chemically and metabolically unstable has restricted bioactivity studies to their antifouling properties and technical applications. In order to confirm or refute this idea, the hepatic metabolism of six model isocyanides was investigated. Aromatic and primary isocyanides turned out to be unstable and metabolically labile, but secondary and tertiary isocyanides resisted metabolization, showing, in some cases, cytochrome P450 inhibitory properties. The potential therefore exists for the secondary and tertiary isocyanides to qualify them as pharmacophore groups, in particular as warheads for metalloenzyme inhibition because of their potent metal-coordinating properties.
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