Synonyms: K-777 | K11777 | S-001 | SLV213
Compound class:
Synthetic organic
Comment: K777 is a clinical stage irreversible cysteine protease inhibitor. It has reported activity at human cathepsin L and other CA clade cysteine proteases [2-5]. Original reports revealed anti-parasitic effects in vitro and in animal models [1-2,6].
SARS-CoV-2: Cathepsin L in human host cells is implicated in the processing (cleavage) of the viral spike protein of SARS coronaviruses, that is part of the viral entry process. K777 blocks SARS-CoV-2 infection in vitro. Ligand Activity Visualisation ChartsThese are box plot that provide a unique visualisation, summarising all the activity data for a ligand taken from ChEMBL and GtoPdb across multiple targets and species. Click on a plot to see the median, interquartile range, low and high data points. A value of zero indicates that no data are available. A separate chart is created for each target, and where possible the algorithm tries to merge ChEMBL and GtoPdb targets by matching them on name and UniProt accession, for each available species. However, please note that inconsistency in naming of targets may lead to data for the same target being reported across multiple charts. ✖ |
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References |
1. Doyle PS, Zhou YM, Engel JC, McKerrow JH. (2007)
A cysteine protease inhibitor cures Chagas' disease in an immunodeficient-mouse model of infection. Antimicrob Agents Chemother, 51 (11): 3932-9. [PMID:17698625] |
2. Engel JC, Doyle PS, Hsieh I, McKerrow JH. (1998)
Cysteine protease inhibitors cure an experimental Trypanosoma cruzi infection. J Exp Med, 188 (4): 725-34. [PMID:9705954] |
3. Mellott DM, Tseng CT, Drelich A, Fajtová P, Chenna BC, Kostomiris DH, Hsu J, Zhu J, Taylor ZW, Kocurek KI et al.. (2021)
A Clinical-Stage Cysteine Protease Inhibitor blocks SARS-CoV-2 Infection of Human and Monkey Cells. ACS Chem Biol, 16 (4): 642-650. [PMID:33787221] |
4. Palmer JT, Rasnick D, Klaus JL, Brömme D. (1995)
Vinyl sulfones as mechanism-based cysteine protease inhibitors. J Med Chem, 38 (17): 3193-6. [PMID:7650671] |
5. Somoza JR, Zhan H, Bowman KK, Yu L, Mortara KD, Palmer JT, Clark JM, McGrath ME. (2000)
Crystal structure of human cathepsin V. Biochemistry, 39 (41): 12543-51. [PMID:11027133] |
6. Yang PY, Wang M, He CY, Yao SQ. (2012)
Proteomic profiling and potential cellular target identification of K11777, a clinical cysteine protease inhibitor, in Trypanosoma brucei. Chem Commun (Camb), 48 (6): 835-7. [PMID:22124229] |