Discovery and SAR of aryl hydroxy pyrimidinones as potent small molecule agonists of the GPCR APJ
作者:Michael C. Myers、Donna M. Bilder、Cullen L. Cavallaro、Hannguang J. Chao、Shun Su、Neil T. Burford、Akbar Nayeem、Tao Wang、Mujing Yan、Robert A. Langish、Marta Dabros、Yi-Xin Li、Anne V. Rose、Kamelia Behnia、Joelle M. Onorato、Peter S. Gargalovic、Ruth R. Wexler、R. Michael Lawrence
DOI:10.1016/j.bmcl.2020.126955
日期:2020.4
This article describes the discovery of aryl hydroxy pyrimidinones and the medicinal chemistry efforts to optimize this chemotype for potent APJ agonism. APJ is a G-protein coupled receptor whose natural agonist peptide, apelin, displays hemodynamic improvement in the cardiac function of heart failure patients. A high throughput screen was undertaken to identify small molecule hits that could be optimized to mimic the apelin in vitro response. A potent and low molecular weight aryl hydroxy pyrimidinone analog 30 was identified through optimization of an HTS hit and medicinal chemistry efforts to improve its properties.