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Definitions

• the invention relates to enzyme inhibition and to treatment of disease.
• Kinins are natural vasoactive peptides liberated in the body from high molecular weight precursors (kininogens) by the action of selective proteases known as kininogenases.
• the kinins (bradykinin, kallidin and Met-Lys-bra kinin) are potent medi rs of inflammation. Their actions are:
• PG's certain actions of kinins, particularly pain and vascular permeability above, are potentiated by PG's, although PG's themselves do not cause pain nor do they induce vascular permeability at the concentrations found in inflamed tissue. PG's therefore act as either mediators or potentiators of kinins.
• the kininogenases are serine proteinases, that is to say proteinases in which the hydroxy group of a serine residue is the nucleophile involved in forming the substrate transition state. They liberate the kinins (bradykinin, kallidin) from the kininogens by limited proteolysis.
• kininogenase There are several kinds of kininogenase:-
• Tissue kallikrein also called glandular kallikrein GT or urinary kallikrein UK
• TK Tissue kallikrein
• LMWK low molecular weight kininogen
• KD kinin kallidin
• the kininogens which are the natural substrates for the kininogenases (they act also as potent inhibitors, Ki approx. 10 - 11 , of cysteine proteinases such as cathepsins B, H and L, calpain and papain) occur in two types: (a) Low molecular weight kininogen (LMWK) with molecular weight in the range 50,000 - 70,000 depending on species of origin and degree of glycosylation.
• LMWK Low molecular weight kininogen
• HMWK High molecular weight kininogen
• H-chain N- terminal or heavy chain
• L-chain the first twelve amino acids of the C-terminal or light chain
• cleavage of human HMWK by plasma kallikrein is for example shown schematically in Fig. 1, with details of the sequence at the cleavage sites in Fig. 2 and a more detailed sequence in Fig. 3 where the conventional numbering of residues adajcent to a cleavage site is shown for cleavage site I.
• the H- and L-Chains are held together by a single disulphide bridge:-
• plasma kallikrein and tissue kallikrein act at a single site to free the kinin C-terminal site, cleaving between residues 389 and 390, but at sites one residue apart, either side of residue 380, to free the N-terminal of bradykinin (by PK) or kallidin (by TK).
• PK and HMWK as clotting factors in the intrinsic cascade does not involve the enzymatic release of kinins. However many of the effects of PK and all those of TK do involve such release, being mediated by the kinins released from the respective substrates HMWK and LMWK through selective proteolysis.
• kininogenase inhibitors are inflammatory conditions, particularly aller g i c inflammation ( e . g . asthma and hay fever ) .
• aller g i c inflammation e . g . asthma and hay fever .
• a fuller list of indications is given below:
• Allergic inflammation e.g. asthma, rhino-conjunctivitis [hay fever], rhinorrhoea, urticaria
• Inflammation e.g. arthritis, pancreatitis, gastritis, inflammatory bowel disease, thermal injury, crush injury, conjunctivitis
• Hypotension e.g. shock due to haemorrhage, septicaemia or anaphylaxis, carcinoid syndrome, dumping syndrome
• Oedema e.g. burns, brain trauma, angioneurotic oedema whether or not as a result of treatment with inhibitors of angiotensin converting enzyme
• Pain and irritation e.g. burns, wounds, cuts, rashes, stings, insect bites
• the invention provides a method of treatment (including prophylactic treatment) of an inflammatory or other condition set out in the indications above, particularly, an allergic inflammatory condition, wherein an effective amount of a peptide or peptide-analogue kininogenase inhibitor is administered topically or systemically to a patient suffering from or at risk of the condition. It is believed that for optimum activity, administrability and stability in the body the compounds should not exceed the size of a hexapeptide, that is to say should not comprise more than six amino acid or amino acid analogue residues; the presence of further residues, particularly in a pro-drug from which residues are cleaved in the body to give the compound primarily exerting the desired effect, is however not excluded.
• the invention provides a method of treatment of the allergic inflammatory phase of asthma, wherein an effective amount of a kininogenase inhibitor such as a mast cell tryptase inhibitor is administered topically or systemically to a patient suffering from or at risk of the condition.
• a kininogenase inhibitor such as a mast cell tryptase inhibitor
• the invention extends further to a method of preparation of a medicament for the topical or systemic treatment (including prophylactic treatment) of conditions as above particularly for allergic inflammatory conditions and especially for asthma as above, wherein a kininogenase inhibitor is associated with a pharmaceutically acceptable diluent or carrier to constitute said medicament.
• the kininogenase inhibitor is conveniently but not essentially of the novel kind now described in which in another aspect, without limitation to any particular clinical indication, the invention provides synthetic, low molecular weight compounds that selectively inhibit kininogenases and thus block the release of kinins from kininogens.
• the inhibitors are peptide analogues, desirably (as above) not exceeding the size of a hexapeptide in terms of amino acid or analogue residues, based on the known amino acid sequence of the kininogens at cleavage site I, which analogues have sufficient similarity to the cleavage site sequence to bind to the active site of the kininogenase but are not hydrolysable and therefore remain bound, inactivating the enzyme.
• the inhibitors are essentially of the structure below, in which A represents the P 3 residue, B the P 2 residue, C the P 1 residue and Y a carbonyl-activating or binding group the structure being:-
• a - B - C - Y I where A, B and C are amino acyl or amino acyl analogue groups linked by peptide bonds or conformational analogues thereof giving a peptide mimic.
• Other residues in addition to these essential ones may of course be present, including amino acyl or amino acyl analogue residues.
• a and B amino acyl (including amino acyl analogue) the same or different forming a dipeptide group the amino acid of A optionally carrying a terminal group (other than hydrogen) and being any amino or imino-acid residue (but preferably of D- configuration) and of B being a lipophilic amino-acid residue of D- or L-configuration but not proline or a proline analogue, or a conformational analogue of said dipeptide group wherein the peptide link is replaced by -CH 2 -NH- ('reduced'), -CH(OH)-CH 2 - ('hydroxy'), -CO-CH 2 - ('keto'), -CH 2 -CH 2 - ('hydrocarbon') or other conformational mimic of the peptide link and in:- 0
• R 1 is that of a basic amino acid or amino acid analogue (preferably of L- configuration) and R is H or lower alkyl ( C 1 - C 4 ) or C ⁇ or the peptide link comprising -N(R)- is replaced leading to a conformational mimic as above.
• C ⁇ may be replaced by nitrogen.
• Y a binding enhancing or carbonyl activating group for example selected from H (but only if A or B is cyclohexylalanine, preferably D if at A or L if at B) or alkyl ( C 1 - C 20 ) or fluoroalkyl (C 2 - C 12 ); substituted
• substituted amino but when the resulting compound is a secondary alkylamide B must not be phenyl-alanine); an amino-acid group or its ester or amide; a carboxylic secondary amide or primary amide, when B must be a bulky lipophilic, non-aromatic amino-acid e.g.
• cyclohexylalanine (not Ala Leu lle Val Nva Met Nle Phe Tyr Trp Nal (1)); tertiary-carboxamide; carboxy-alkyl group or its ester or amide.
• substituents are suitably common functional groups that increase binding affinity to the enzyme and/or improve pharmacological properties.
• a dipeptide mimic is a structure containing non-natural amino acid (amino acid analogue) residues or which is non-peptidic and which in I holds the side-chains of A and B or B and C or all of them in a conformation similar to that present in the parent peptide when bound to the active site of the enzyme. It may also contain features favourable for other interactions with the enzyme, e.g. hydrogen bonding.
• a mimic may be chosen from the published work on such analogues.
• Preferred residues for A are imino-acids, (e.g. D-proline or an analogue of proline e.g. pipecolinic acid, azetidine carboxylic acid etc.); lipophilic amino acids (e.g. DPhe, DCha, DChg); strongly basic amino acids (e.g. D-Arg or a guanidinophenylalanine) and for B they are L-Phe, L-Cha, L- ⁇ Nal, L-Tal, L-(4F)Phe L-(NMe)Phe or other substituted phenylalanines.
• imino-acids e.g. D-proline or an analogue of proline e.g. pipecolinic acid, azetidine carboxylic acid etc.
• lipophilic amino acids e.g. DPhe, DCha, DChg
• strongly basic amino acids e.g. D-Arg or a guanidinophenylalanine
• a and B may also be the N-alkyl (C 1 -C 4 ) or C ⁇ -alkyl ( C 1 -C 7 e.g. methyl, benzyl) analogues of these amino acids.
• Suitable terminal groups for A include lower alkyl (preferred) or acyl (not excluding amino acyl), alkyl sulphonyl (straight chain or branched or cyclic), amino-alkyl, carboxy alkyl, hydroxy alkyl or any other common protecting group encountered in peptide chemistry.
• Groups suitable as group Y are specific to the present invention in that they are part of the structure giving the required binding to the active site and are not merely non- interfering end groups. They form a binding group which increases affinity to the enzyme and/or a group which activates the adjacent carbonyl by rendering it more electrophilic. Specific groups are included in the following formula:
• R 2 , R 4 and R 5 are as below 4
• R 9 -NH 2 as such or alkylated, or amino acyl
• R 6 hydrogen lower alkyl, branched alkyl, cycloalkyl, hydroxyalkyl, amino-alkyl, alkylaminocarbonyl.
• Y an amino-acid residue or any amide (secondary or tertiary) or ester of that residue, L or D configuration.
• Preferred residues are of lipophilic amino-acids e.g. norleucine, cyclohexylalanine, homocyclohexylalanine, cyclohexylglycine, tert butylglycine.
• R 7 H (when however B is not phenylalanine unless R 8 is carboxylalkyl or derivatized carboxylalkyl); or alkyl, branched alkyl (C 1 - C 12 ) , cycloalkyl (C 1 -C 20 ) carboxyalkyl or bis (carboxyl) alkyl, which may be derivatized at the carboxyl group to form an amide e.g. with an amino-acid (preferred is arginine) or a substituted amine; N'-dialkylamino; N'-alkylamino-;
• R 8 R 7 the same or different but excluding H.
• N'-alkylamino (where the alkyl groups include branched and/or cycloalkyl); an amino-acid residue.
• Boc-Arg(Z 2 )OH (9.23 mmol) and N-methylmorpholine (11.08 mmol) in dry THF (25 cm 3 ) at -20°C After 20 mins the solid was filtered off and the filtrate added to a solution of sodium borohydride (10.3 mmol) in water (10 cm 3 ) at 0°C After 3 hours 0.3 M KHSO 4 was added, the crude product extracted with EtOAc and purified by flash chromatography on silica with EtOAc - petrol (4:6). The alcohol 1 was isolated as a white solid (97%).
• N-methylmorpholine 50.85 mmol
• isobutyl chloroformate 50.73 mmol
• this mixture vas added to a solution of diazomethane (0.1 mole) in Et 2 O at -5°C.
• the diazoketone 12 was isolated as a yellow solid.
• Boc-Phg-OH (19.9 mmol) was dissolved in AcOH/H 2 O (9:1, 100 cm 3 ) and hydrogenated over Rh/C at 60 p.s.i. for 3 days. The catalyst was filtered off and the solvent removed to give Boc-Chg-OH 41 (100%).
• the present enzyme inhibitor can be formulated by any conventional method in pharmaceutics.
• the present enzyme inhibitor may be applied in any conventional manner including intravenous injection, intramuscular injection, instillation, oral administration, respiratory inhalation, instillation, rhinenchysis, and external skin treatment.
• the suitable dosage is 1 to 1000 mg/day/person.

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