Experimental Data Snapshot
(2016) J Med Chem 59: 4913
Neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) is an important therapeutic target for the treatment of various neurodegenerative disorders. A major challenge in the design of nNOS inhibitors focuses on potency in humans and selectivity over other NOS isoforms. Here we report potent and selective human nNOS inhibitors based on the 2-aminopyridine scaffold with a central pyridine linker. Compound 14j, the most promising inhibitor in this study, exhibits excellent potency for rat nNOS (Ki = 16 nM) with 828-fold n/e and 118-fold n/i selectivity with a Ki value of 13 nM against human nNOS with 1761-fold human n/e selectivity. Compound 14j also displayed good metabolic stability in human liver microsomes, low plasma protein binding, and minimal binding to cytochromes P450 (CYPs), although it had little to no Caco-2 permeability.
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Biological assembly 1 assigned by authors and generated by PISA (software)
Macromolecule Content 
Entity ID: 1 | |||||
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| Molecule | Chains | Sequence Length | Organism | Details | Image |
| ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE | 443 | Bos taurus | Mutation(s): 0  EC: 1.14.13.39 | ![]() | |
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Find proteins for P29473 (Bos taurus) Explore P29473  Go to UniProtKB:  P29473 | |||||
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| UniProt Group | P29473 | ||||
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| Ligands 6 Unique | |||||
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| ID | Chains | Name / Formula / InChI Key | 2D Diagram | 3D Interactions | |
| HEM Query on HEM Download Ideal Coordinates CCD File  | C [auth A], I [auth B] | PROTOPORPHYRIN IX CONTAINING FE C34 H32 Fe N4 O4 KABFMIBPWCXCRK-RGGAHWMASA-L | |||
| W67 Query on W67 Download Ideal Coordinates CCD File  | E [auth A], K [auth B] | 6-(2-(5-(3-(DIMETHYLAMINO)PROPYL)PYRIDIN-3-YL)ETHYL)-4-METHYLPYRIDIN-2-AMINE C18 H26 N4 TUAXAWZDVAYXFN-UHFFFAOYSA-N | |||
| H4B Query on H4B Download Ideal Coordinates CCD File  | D [auth A], J [auth B] | 5,6,7,8-TETRAHYDROBIOPTERIN C9 H15 N5 O3 FNKQXYHWGSIFBK-RPDRRWSUSA-N | |||
| GOL Query on GOL Download Ideal Coordinates CCD File  | F [auth A], L [auth B] | GLYCEROL C3 H8 O3 PEDCQBHIVMGVHV-UHFFFAOYSA-N | |||
| ZN Query on ZN Download Ideal Coordinates CCD File  | G [auth A] | ZINC ION Zn PTFCDOFLOPIGGS-UHFFFAOYSA-N | |||
| CL Query on CL Download Ideal Coordinates CCD File  | H [auth A], M [auth B] | CHLORIDE ION Cl VEXZGXHMUGYJMC-UHFFFAOYSA-M | |||
| Modified Residues 1 Unique | |||||
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| ID | Chains | Type | Formula | 2D Diagram | Parent |
| CAS Query on CAS | A, B | L-PEPTIDE LINKING | C5 H12 As N O2 S | CYS | |
| Length ( Å ) | Angle ( ˚ ) |
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| a = 57.765 | α = 90 |
| b = 106.693 | β = 90 |
| c = 157.447 | γ = 90 |
| Software Name | Purpose |
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| PHENIX | refinement |
| XDS | data reduction |
| Aimless | data scaling |
| REFMAC | phasing |
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