Identification of a Nonbasic Melanin Hormone Receptor 1 Antagonist as an Antiobesity Clinical Candidate
作者:William N. Washburn、Mark Manfredi、Pratik Devasthale、Guohua Zhao、Saleem Ahmad、Andres Hernandez、Jeffrey A. Robl、Wei Wang、James Mignone、Zhenghua Wang、Khehyong Ngu、Mary Ann Pelleymounter、Daniel Longhi、Rulin Zhao、Bei Wang、Ning Huang、Neil Flynn、Anthony V. Azzara、Joel C. Barrish、Kenneth Rohrbach、James J. Devenny、Suzanne Rooney、Michael Thomas、Susan Glick、Helen E. Godonis、Susan J. Harvey、Mary Jane Cullen、Hongwei Zhang、Christian Caporuscio、Paul Stetsko、Mary Grubb、Brad D. Maxwell、Hong Yang、Atsu Apedo、Brian Gemzik、Evan B. Janovitz、Christine Huang、Lisa Zhang、Chris Freeden、Brian J. Murphy
DOI:10.1021/jm500026w
日期:2014.9.25
Identification of MCHR1 antagonists with a preclinical safety profile to support clinical evaluation as antiobesity agents has been a challenge. Our finding that a basic moiety is not required for MCHR1 antagonists to achieve high affinity allowed us to explore structures less prone to off-target activities such as hERG inhibition. We report the SAR evolution of hydroxylated thienopyrimidinone ethers culminating in the identification of 27 (BMS-819881), which entered obesity clinical trials as the phosphate ester prodrug 35 (BMS-830216).