Quantitative structure-activity relationship studies on sulfonamide-based MMP inhibitors.

Abstract

Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) regulate a wide range of biological functions, but their overactivation leads to a wide array of disease processes such as rheumatoid arthritis, ostereoarthritis, tumor metastatis, multiple sclerosis, congestive heart failure, and a host of others. Therefore, the study of MMP inhibitors has evoked a great interest among scientists. As a result, different groups of compounds have been synthesized and studied for MMP inhibitions. Among them, a large number of structurally novel sulfonamide derivatives have been reported to be potential MMP inhibitors, but only a few have reached to the final stage of clinical trial. Many authors have made quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) studies on them to provide the guidelines to design more potent MMP inhibitors. This article presents a comprehensive review on all such QSARs reported with critical assessment in order to provide a deeper insight into the structure-activity relationship of sulfonamides which can be used to synthesize highly potential drugs of pharmaceutical importance.