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JOURNAL OF ENZYME INHIBITION
Volume 15, Issue 4, Pages 381-401Publisher
HARWOOD ACAD PUBL GMBH, TAYLOR & FRANCIS GROUP
DOI: 10.1080/14756360009040695
Keywords
carbonic anhydrase; isozymes I, II, IV; sulfonamide; pyrylium salt; pyridinium salt; bicarbonate excretion
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A new approach is proposed for the selective in vivo inhibition of membrane-bound versus cytosolic carbonic anhydrase (CA, EC 4.2.1.1) isozymes with a class of positively-charged, membrane-impermeant sulfonamides. Aromatic/heterocyclic sulfonamides acting as strong (but unselective) inhibitors of this zinc enzyme were derivatized by the attachment of trisubstituted-pyridinium-ethylcarboxy moieties (obtained from 2,4,6-trisubstituted-pyrylium salts and beta-alanine) to the amino, imino, hydrazino or hydroxyl groups present in their molecules. Efficient in vitro inhibition tin the nanomolar range) was observed with some of the new derivatives against three investigated CA isozymes, i.e., hCA I, hCA II (cytosolic forms) and bCA IV (membrane-bound isozyme; h = human; b = bovine isozyme). Due to their salt-like character, the new type of inhibitors reported here, unlike the classical, clinically used compounds (such as acetazolamide, methazolamide, ethoxzolamide), are unable to penetrate biological membranes.
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