A simple yet multifaceted 90 years old, evergreen enzyme: Carbonic anhydrase, its inhibition and activation

CT Supuran - Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 2023 - Elsevier
Advances in the carbonic anhydrase (CA, EC 4.2. 1.1) research over the last three decades
are presented, with an emphasis on the deciphering of the activation mechanism, the …

Multiple binding modes of inhibitors to carbonic anhydrases: how to design specific drugs targeting 15 different isoforms?

V Alterio, A Di Fiore, K D'Ambrosio, CT Supuran… - Chemical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Carbonic anhydrases (CAs, EC 4.2. 1.1) are ubiquitous metallo-enzymes, present
throughout most living organisms and encoded by five evolutionarily unrelated gene …

Carbonic anhydrase inhibitors

CT Supuran, A Scozzafava… - Medicinal research …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
At least 14 different carbonic anhydrase (CA, EC 4.2. 1.1) isoforms were isolated in higher
vertebrates, where these zinc enzymes play crucial physiological roles. Some of these …

Carbonic anhydrase as a model for biophysical and physical-organic studies of proteins and protein− ligand binding

VM Krishnamurthy, GK Kaufman, AR Urbach… - Chemical …, 2008 - ACS Publications
Carbonic anhydrase (CA, EC 4.2. 1.1) is a protein that is especially well-suited to serve as a
model in many types of studies in biophysics, bioanalysis, the physical-organic chemistry of …

Unexpected nanomolar inhibition of carbonic anhydrase by COX-2-selective celecoxib: new pharmacological opportunities due to related binding site recognition

A Weber, A Casini, A Heine, D Kuhn… - Journal of medicinal …, 2004 - ACS Publications
By optimizing binding to a selected target protein, modern drug research strives to develop
safe and efficacious agents for the treatment of disease. Selective drug action is intended to …

Sulfonamides and their isosters as carbonic anhydrase inhibitors

F Carta, CT Supuran, A Scozzafava - Future medicinal chemistry, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Molecules containing the sulfonamide group (R-SO2NH2) as well as its structurally related
isosters, sulfamido (R-NH-SO2NH2) and sulfamato (RO-SO2NH2), constitute the most …

Carbonic anhydrase inhibitors: E7070, a sulfonamide anticancer agent, potently inhibits cytosolic isozymes I and II, and transmembrane, tumor-associated isozyme IX

F Abbate, A Casini, T Owa, A Scozzafava… - Bioorganic & medicinal …, 2004 - Elsevier
E7070 [N-(3-chloro-7-indolyl)-1, 4-benzenedisulfonamide] is an anticancer drug candidate
under clinical development for the treatment of several types of cancers. We prove here that …

Applications of carbonic anhydrase inhibitors and activators in therapy

CT Supuran, A Scozzafava - Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Patents, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
Inhibitors and activators of the zinc enzyme carbonic anhydrase (CA, EC 4.2. 1.1) have a
large number of applications in therapy. Many types of such new derivatives have been …

Sulfamates and their therapeutic potential

JY Winum, A Scozzafava, JL Montero… - Medicinal research …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Starting from the very simple molecule sulfamic acid, O‐substituted‐, N‐substituted‐, or di‐
/tri‐substituted sulfamates may be obtained, which show specific biological activities which …

Carbonic anhydrase inhibitors: SAR and X-ray crystallographic study for the interaction of sugar sulfamates/sulfamides with isozymes I, II and IV

A Casini, J Antel, F Abbate, A Scozzafava… - Bioorganic & medicinal …, 2003 - Elsevier
A series of sugar sulfamate/sulfamide derivatives were prepared and assayed as inhibitors
of three carbonic anhydrase (CA) isozymes, hCA I, hCA II and bCA IV. Best inhibitory …