Synthesis and evaluation of NS5A inhibitors containing diverse heteroaromatic cores
作者:James A. Henderson、Darius Bilimoria、Monica Bubenik、Caroline Cadilhac、Kevin M. Cottrell、Francois Denis、Evelyne Dietrich、Nigel Ewing、Guy Falardeau、Simon Giroux、Lucille L’Heureux、Bingcan Liu、Nagraj Mani、Mark Morris、Olivier Nicolas、Oswy Z. Pereira、Carl Poisson、T. Jagadeeswar Reddy、Subajini Selliah、Rebecca S. Shawgo、Louis Vaillancourt、Jian Wang、Jinwang Xu、Nathalie Chauret、Francoise Berlioz-Seux、Laval C. Chan、Sanjoy K. Das、Anne-Laure Grillot、Youssef L. Bennani、John P. Maxwell
DOI:10.1016/j.bmcl.2014.12.042
日期:2015.2
Inhibitors of the HCV NS5A nonstructural protein are showing promising clinical potential in the treatment of hepatitis C when used in combination with other direct-acting antiviral agents. Current NS5A clinical candidates such as daclatasvir, ledipasvir, and ombitasvir share a common pharmacophore that features a pair of (S)-methoxycarbonylvaline capped pyrrolidines linked to various cores by amides, imidazoles and/or benzimidazoles. In this Letter, we describe the evaluation of NS5A inhibitors which contain alternative heteroaromatic replacements for these amide mimetics. The SAR knowledge gleaned in the optimization of scaffolds containing benzoxazoles was parlayed toward the identification of potent NS5A inhibitors containing other heteroaromatic replacements such as indoles and imidazopyridines. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.