ArticleACS chemical biology2021
OFF-State-Specific Inhibition of the Proprotein Convertase Furin.
Article in ACS chemical biology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Accurate density functional theory for noncovalent interactions in charged systems.Science advances · 2026Article
- Design, Synthesis, and Characterization of Dichlorobiphenyl-Derived Inhibitors of the Proprotein Convertase Furin.Journal of medicinal chemistry · 2025Article
- Structural insights into proprotein convertase activation facilitate the engineering of highly specific furin inhibitors.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Host proteases: key regulators in viral infection and therapeutic targeting.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Review
- Development and Prospects of Furin Inhibitors for Therapeutic Applications.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Evaluation of Potential Furin Protease Inhibitory Properties of Pioglitazone, Rosiglitazone, and Pirfenidone: An In Silico Docking and Molecular Dynamics Simulation Approach.Current issues in molecular biology · 2024Article
- Functional Roles of Furin in Cardio-Cerebrovascular Diseases.ACS pharmacology & translational science · 2024Review
- Permethrin as a Potential Furin Inhibitor through a Novel Non-Competitive Allosteric Inhibition.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The Role of Proprotein Convertases in Upper Airway Remodeling.Molecules and cells · 2022Review
- Dichlorophenylpyridine-Based Molecules Inhibit Furin through an Induced-Fit Mechanism.ACS chemical biology · 2022Article
- A perspective on the applications of furin inhibitors for the treatment of SARS-CoV-2.Pharmacological reports : PR · 2022Article
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Abstract
The pro-protein convertase furin is a highly specific serine protease involved in the proteolytic maturation of many proteins in the secretory pathway. It also activates surface proteins of many viruses including the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Furin inhibitors effectively suppress viral replication and thus are promising antiviral therapeutics with broad application potential. Polybasic substrate-like ligands typically trigger conformational changes shifting furin's active site cleft from the OFF-state to the ON-state. Here, we solved the X-ray structures of furin in complex with four different arginine mimetic compounds with reduced basicity. These guanylhydrazone-based inhibitor complexes showed for the first time an active site-directed binding mode to furin's OFF-state conformation. The compounds undergo unique interactions within the S1 pocket, largely different compared to substrate-like ligands. A second binding site was identified at the S4/S5 pocket of furin. Crystallography-based titration experiments confirmed the S1 site as the primary binding pocket. We also tested the proprotein convertases PC5/6 and PC7 for inhibition by guanylhydrazones and found an up to 7-fold lower potency for PC7. Interestingly, the observed differences in the
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