Rational scaffold hopping of the natural product belactosin A derivative was successfully achieved based on the pharmacophore model constructed. The peptidic scaffold was replaced by significantly simplified non-peptidic scaffolds, by which weak belactosin A (IC 50 = 1440 nM) was converted into highly potent non-peptidic inhibitors (IC 50 = 26-393 nM).In the drug discovery process, not only desired biological effect on target biomolecule, but also other various properties such as metabolic stability, membrane permeability, solubility, toxicity profile, and synthetic accessibility of leads, have to be optimized.