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CHEMISTRY & BIOLOGY
Volume 10, Issue 10, Pages 997-1001Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2003.10.001
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Natural bioactive compounds are of general interest to pharmaceutical research because they may be used as leads in drug development campaigns. Among them, scyptolin A and B from Scytonema hofmanni PCC 7110 are known to inhibit porcine pancreatic elastase, which in turn resembles the attractive drug target neutrophil elastase. The crystal structure of scyptolin A as bound to pancreatic elastase was solved at 2.8 Angstrom resolution. The inhibitor occupies the most prominent subsites S1 through S4 of the elastase and prevents a hydrolytic attack by covering the active center with its rigid ring structure. The observed binding structure may help to design potent elastase inhibitors.
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