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2022 (English)In: Chemistry - A European Journal, ISSN 0947-6539, E-ISSN 1521-3765, Vol. 28, no 40, article id e202200678Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Reactivators are vital for the treatment of organophosphorus nerve agent (OPNA) intoxication but new alternatives are needed due to their limited clinical applicability. The toxicity of OPNAs stems from covalent inhibition of the essential enzyme acetylcholinesterase (AChE), which reactivators relieve via a chemical reaction with the inactivated enzyme. Here, we present new strategies and tools for developing reactivators. We discover suitable inhibitor scaffolds by using an activity-independent competition assay to study non-covalent interactions with OPNA-AChEs and transform these inhibitors into broad-spectrum reactivators. Moreover, we identify determinants of reactivation efficiency by analysing reactivation and pre-reactivation kinetics together with structural data. Our results show that new OPNA reactivators can be discovered rationally by exploiting detailed knowledge of the reactivation mechanism of OPNA-inhibited AChE.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
John Wiley & Sons, 2022
Keywords
drug design, kinetics, nerve agent antidotes, reaction mechanisms, structural biology
National Category
Pharmacology and Toxicology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-196525 (URN)10.1002/chem.202200678 (DOI)000807066300001 ()35420233 (PubMedID)2-s2.0-85131325691 (Scopus ID)
Funder
Swedish Research Council, 2018-07152Swedish Research Council Formas, 2019-02496Swedish Research Council, 2018-05176
2022-06-142022-06-142025-05-19Bibliographically approved