Also known as N-methyl-DL-tryptophan, N-methyltryptophan, 1-methyl-DL-tryptophan
1-Methyltryptophan is a chemical compound that is an inhibitor of the tryptophan catabolic enzyme indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO or INDO ). It is a chiral compound that can exist as both - and -enantiomers.
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1-Methyltryptophan is a chemical compound that is an inhibitor of the tryptophan catabolic enzyme indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO or INDO ). It is a chiral compound that can exist as both - and -enantiomers.
The -isomer (-1MT) inhibits IDO weakly but also serves as an enzyme substrate.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).