Patent 7482379 was granted and assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corporation on January, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present disclosure provides compositions for inhibiting proteases, methods for synthesizing the compositions, and methods of using the disclosed protease inhibitors. Aspects of the disclosure include a peptidyl propenoyl hydrazide compositions that inhibit proteases, for example cysteine proteases, either in vivo or in vitro.