1,3,4-Oxadiazole-2(3H)-thione and its analogues: a new class of non-competitive nucleotide pyrophosphatases/phosphodiesterases 1 inhibitors.

A series of 1,3,4-oxadiazole-2 (3H)-thiones and 1,3,4-thiadiazole-2 (3H)-thiones were synthesized and evaluated for their inhibitory activities against the two nucleotide pyrophosphatase phosphodiesterase 1 enzymes. Dixon, as well as Lineweaver-Burk plots, and their secondary replots have indicated that the inhibition was of pure non-competitive type, against both snake venom and pure human recombinant enzymes as the V(max) values decreases without affecting the K(m) values. 5-[4-(t-Butyldimethylsilyloxy)-phenyl]-1,3,4-thiadiazole-2 (3H)-thione (17) and [4-(t-butyldimethylsilyloxy)-phenyl]-1,3,4-oxadiazole-2 (3H)-thione (1) were found to be the most active compounds with IC(50) values 66.47 and 368microM, respectively. The K(i) values were 100microM and 360microM against the snake venom and human recombinant NPP1 enzyme, respectively. Most active compounds were found to be non-toxic in neutrophil viability assay.