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ArticleACS medicinal chemistry letters2025

A Tetrahydrobiopterin-Displacing Potent Neuronal Nitric Oxide Synthase Inhibitor with an Unprecedented Binding Mode.

Pathum M Weerawarna, Huiying Li, Athri D Rathnayake, Christine D Hardy, Thomas L Poulos, Richard B Silverman

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Article in ACS medicinal chemistry letters, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Pathum M WeerawarnaDepartments of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, Chemistry of Life Processes Institute, and Center for Developmental Therapeutics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9859-0787
Huiying LiDepartments of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, California 92697-3900, United States.
Athri D RathnayakeDepartments of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, Chemistry of Life Processes Institute, and Center for Developmental Therapeutics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States.
Christine D HardyDepartments of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, California 92697-3900, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0780-025X
Thomas L PoulosDepartments of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, California 92697-3900, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5648-3510
Richard B SilvermanDepartments of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, Chemistry of Life Processes Institute, and Center for Developmental Therapeutics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9034-1084

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nitric oxide synthase (NOS) is a pivotal enzyme that regulates various physiological processes, and the dysregulation of neuronal NOS (nNOS) is implicated in neurodegenerative diseases. In our efforts to leverage existing X-ray crystallography data to develop novel aminoquinoline-pyridine hybrid inhibitors and evaluate their inhibitory activities and interactions with NOS isoforms, we identified compounds

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PMID40236557
PMCPMC11995208

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