Abstract To develop inhibitors of myristoyl CoA: protein N-myristoyltransferase (NMT), a series of myristoyl coenzyme A analogues and myristoyl peptides were synthesized, including S-(2-oxopentadecyl)-CoA (1), S-(2-hydroxypentadecyl)-CoA (2), S-(2- oxopentadecyl)-pantetheine (3), Myr-N-Gly-(L)-Phe (4), Myr-NGly-(L)-Tyr (5), and Myr-N-Gly- (L)-Asn-Ala-Ala-Ser-Ala-Arg-(NH 2)(6). Biological evaluation of these compounds in an in ...