Although cyclophilins are attractive targets for probing biology and therapeutic intervention, no subtype-selective cyclophilin inhibitors have been described. We discovered novel cyclophilin inhibitors from the in vitro selection of a DNA-templated library of 256,000 drug-like macrocycles for cyclophilin D (CypD) affinity. Iterated macrocycle engineering guided by ten X-ray co-crystal structures yielded potent and selective inhibitors (half maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50) = 10 nM) that bind the active site of CypD and also make novel interactions with non-conserved residues in the S2 pocket, an adjacent exo-site. The resulting macrocycles inhibit CypD activity with 21- to >10,000-fold selectivity over other cyclophilins and inhibit mitochondrial permeability transition pore opening in isolated mitochondria. We further exploited S2 pocket interactions to develop the first cyclophilin E (CypE)-selective inhibitor, which forms a reversible covalent bond with a CypE S2 pocket lysine, and exhibits 30- to >4,000-fold selectivity over other cyclophilins. These findings reveal a strategy to generate isoform-selective small-molecule cyclophilin modulators, advancing their suitability as targets for biological investigation and therapeutic development.
Two electrons in two orbitals give rise to four states. When the orbitals are weakly coupled as in the case for the d xy orbitals of quadruple bond species, two of the states are diradical in character with electrons residing in separate orbitals and two of the states are zwitterionic with electrons paired in one orbital or the other. By measuring one-and two-photon spectra, the one-electron (ΔW) and two-electron (K) energies may be calculated, which are the determinants of the state energies of the four-state model for the two-electron bond. The K energy is thus especially sensitive to the size of the orbital as K is dependent on the distance between electrons. To this end, one-and two-photon spectra of Mo 2 X 4 (PMe 3 ) 4 are sensitive to secondary bonding interactions of the δ-orbital manifold with the halide orbitals, as reflected in decreasing K energies along the series Cl > Br > I. Additionally, the calculated one-electron energies have been verified with the spectroelectrochemical preparation of the Mo 2 X 4 (PMe 3 ) 4 + complexes, where the δ bond is a one-electron bond, and K is thus absent. The δ → δ* transition shifts over 10,000 cm −1 upon oxidation of Mo 2 X 4 (PMe 3 ) 4 to Mo 2 X 4 (PMe 3 ) 4 + , establishing that transitions within the two-electron δ bond are heavily governed by the twoelectron exchange energy.
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