Cvc. Prasad et al., STRUCTURAL AND STEREOCHEMICAL REQUIREMENTS OF TIME-DEPENDENT INACTIVATORS OF THE INTERLEUKIN-1-BETA CONVERTING-ENZYME, Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters, 5(4), 1995, pp. 315-318
Structural and stereochemical requirements of substrate based time-dep
endent inactivators of interleukin-1 beta converting enzyme were inves
tigated. Hydrophobic amino acids with L-stereochemistry are preferred
at the P-2 and P-3 positions. It appears that both D- and L-Asp are ac
cepted by the enzyme at the P-1 position.