Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters

Synthesis of cystamidin A (pyrrole-3-propanamide), a reported calpain inhibitor

R Bihovsky, I Pendrak

Index: Bihovsky, Ron; Pendrak, Israil Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 1996 , vol. 6, # 13 p. 1541 - 1542

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Abstract

The reported calpain inhibitor cystamidin A (1a, pyrrole-3-propanamide) and a regioisomer, pyrrole-2-propanamide (1b) have been synthesized from the corresponding pyrrolecarboxaldehydes. The previously assigned structure of cystamidin A is confirmed. However, neither synthetic cystamidin A nor regioisomer 1b inhibits recombinant human calpain I.