In an effort to prepare novel inhibitors of bacterial aminopeptidase N (PepN), the phosphinate, propenylphosphinate, decylphosphinate, sulfonate, and sulfonamidate analogs of Ala–Ala were synthesized and tested as inhibitors. Phosphinate 1 was shown to inhibit PepN with a Ki of 10μM, and propenylphosphinate 2 and decylphosphinate 3 inhibited PepN with a Ki of ca. 1μM. Sulfonate and sulfonamidate analogs did not inhibit ...
[Mohamed Farook, Syed Ahamed; Viswanathan, Seshaiyer; Ganesan, Ramachandran Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 1984 , vol. 57, # 5 p. 1394 - 1400]