2-(4-Amino-4-carboxybutyl) aziridine-2-carboxylic acid. A potent irreversible inhibitor of diaminopimelic acid epimerase. Spontaneous formation from. alpha.-( …

F Gerhart, W Higgins, C Tardif…

Index: Gerhart; Higgins; Tardif; Ducep Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 1990 , vol. 33, # 8 p. 2157 - 2162

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Abstract

Later we discovered that this kind of inhibition had been proposed for the action of aziridine- 2-carboxylate on proline racemase. Thus, on the basis of our hypothesis that non-pyridoxal phosphate racemases/epimerases derive from a common evolutionary origin, I3 a common mechanism, and therefore inhibition by aziridine-2-carboxylate analogues, is not unreasonable.