Discovery of a Novel Highly Selective Histamine H4 Receptor Antagonist for the Treatment of Atopic Dermatitis
作者:Kwangseok Ko、Hye-Jung Kim、Pil-Su Ho、Soon Ok Lee、Ji-Eun Lee、Cho-Rong Min、Yu Chul Kim、Ju-Han Yoon、Eun-Jung Park、Young-Jin Kwon、Jee-Hun Yun、Dong-Oh Yoon、Jung-Sook Kim、Woul-Seong Park、Seung-Su Oh、Yu-Mi Song、Woon-Ki Cho、Kazumi Morikawa、Kyoung-June Lee、Chan-Hee Park
DOI:10.1021/acs.jmedchem.7b01855
日期:2018.4.12
activity as well as excellent selectivity against off-targets. A pharmacophore-based virtual screening system constructed in-house successfully identified initial hit compound 9, and the subsequent homology model-guided optimization efficiently led us to discover pyrido[2,3-e]tetrazolo[1,5-a]pyrazine analogue 48 as a novel chemotype of a potent and highly selective H4R antagonist. Importantly, orally administered
组胺H4受体(H4R)是G蛋白偶联受体家族的成员,被认为是治疗特应性皮炎(AD)的潜在治疗靶标。已经公开了许多H4R拮抗剂,但是尚未开发出控制AD中瘙痒和炎症的有效药物。在这里,我们发现了一类新型的口服H4R拮抗剂,显示出强大的止痒和消炎活性以及对脱靶的极好的选择性。在内部构建的基于药效团的虚拟筛选系统成功鉴定了初始命中化合物9,随后的同源性模型指导的优化有效地引导我们发现了吡啶并[2,3- e ] tetrazolo [1,5- a ] pyrazine类似物48是一种有效且高度选择性的H4R拮抗剂的新型化学型。重要的是,在几种AD小鼠模型中,口服给药的化合物48在止痒和抗炎方面显示出显着的功效,并具有良好的药代动力学(PK)特征。因此,这些数据强烈表明我们的化合物48是用于治疗AD的有前途的临床候选药物。