title: Beta-substituted ethylamine derivatives as suicide inhibitors of lysyl oxidase.
abstract: Lysyl oxidase initiates the covalent cross-linking of elastin and collagen, converting lysyl residues in these proteins to peptidyl aldehyde residues. The present study explored structural and electron withdrawing features required to generate mechanism-based inhibitors of this enzyme with antifibrotic potential. It was found that the electron withdrawing nitrile moiety of beta-aminopropionitrile (BAPN), a naturally occurring syncatalytic inhibitor of lysyl oxidase, can be replaced by chlorine, bromine, or the nitro function to yield 2-haloamines or nitroethylamine compounds which also act as mechanism-based irreversible inhibitors of this enzyme. BAPN and 2-bromo- and 2-chloroethylamine exhibit similar KI values of 6-10 microM. However, the enzyme becomes irreversibly inactivated significantly faster by either of the 2-haloamines than by BAPN. 2-Nitroethylamine has by far the poorest affinity for the enzyme and inactivates much more slowly than the other amines of this series, consistent with interference with optimal enzyme-inhibitor interactions by the anionic nitro group. Unlike BAPN, 2-bromoethylamine is processed to a detectable aldehyde product upon incubation with enzyme, showing a partition ratio of 1.2 mol of acetaldehyde formed per mol of 2-bromo-ethylamine which becomes covalently incorporated in the enzyme. The results are consistent with the processing of 2-bromo-ethylamine to an enzyme-ethyleneamine Schiff base subject to hydrolysis to acetaldehyde or to covalent attack at carbon 2 by an enzyme nucleophile. Thus, beta-haloamines represent a new series of suicide inhibitors of lysyl oxidase which can inactivate the enzyme faster than BAPN and hence may have antifibrotic potential.
mesh_terms: D000594:Amino Acid Oxidoreductases / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors*; D000629:Aminopropionitrile / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000494:pharmacology; D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D005021:Ethylamines / Q000494:pharmacology; D007700:Kinetics; D008956:Models, Chemical; D008249:Protein-Lysine 6-Oxidase / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors*
chemical_list: D005021:Ethylamines; C004504:2-bromoethylamine; D000629:Aminopropionitrile; D000594:Amino Acid Oxidoreductases; D008249:Protein-Lysine 6-Oxidase