Discovery of novel P3 sulfonamide-capped inhibitors of HCV NS3 protease. Inhibitors with improved cellular potencies
摘要:
Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) infection is the major cause of chronic liver disease, leading to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma, which affects more than 200 million people worldwide. Currently the only therapeutic regimens are subcutaneous interferon-alpha or PEG-interferon alone or in combination with oral ribavirin. Although combination therapy is reasonably successful with the majority of genotypes, its efficacy against the predominant genotype (genotype 1) is moderate at best, with only similar to 50% of the patients showing sustained virological response. We recently disclosed the discovery of Boceprevir, SCH 503034 (1), which is a novel, potent, selective, orally bioavailable NS3 protease inhibitor that has been shown to be efficacious in humans and is currently undergoing clinical trials. As second generation compounds, we have further explored various novel structures with the aim of improving enzyme and cellular binding activities of 1. Herein, we disclose our efforts toward the identification of a novel P-3 sulfonamide-capped inhibitor that demonstrated improved binding and cellular activity compared to 1. X-ray structure of one of these inhibitors bound to the enzyme revealed a hydrogen bond of the P-3 sulfonamide group to Cys159 which resulted in improved binding and cellular potency. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
[EN] NOVEL KETOAMIDES WITH CYCLIC P4'S AS INHIBITORS OF NS3 SERINE PROTEASE OF HEPATITIS C VIRUS [FR] NOUVEAUX CETOAMIDES A P4 CYCLIQUES EN TANT QU'INHIBITEURS DE LA NS3 SERINE PROTEASE DU VIRUS DE L'HEPATITE C
Novel potent inhibitors of hepatitis C virus (HCV) NS3 protease with cyclic sulfonyl P3 cappings
作者:Kevin X. Chen、Bancha Vibulbhan、Weiying Yang、Latha G. Nair、Xiao Tong、Kuo-Chi Cheng、F. George Njoroge
DOI:10.1016/j.bmcl.2008.12.111
日期:2009.2
Extensive SAR studies of the P3 capping group led to the discovery of a series of potent inhibitors with sultam and cyclic sulfonyl urea moieties as the P3 capping. The bicyclic thiophene-sultam or phenyl- sultam cappings were selected for further SAR development. Modi. cation at the P3 side chain determined that the tert-butyl group was the best choice at that position. Optimization of P1 residue significantly improved potency and selectivity. The combination of optimal moieties at all positions led to the discovery of compound 33. This compound had the best overall pro. le in potency and PK profile: excellent K-i* of 5.3 nM and activity in replicon (EC90) of 80 nM, extremely high selectivity of 6100, and a good rat PO AUC of 1.43 mu Mh. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
EP1730142B1
申请人:——
公开号:EP1730142B1
公开(公告)日:2011-06-29
Novel ketoamides with cyclic P4's as inhibitors of NS3 serine protease of hepatitis C virus
申请人:Chen X. Kevin
公开号:US20070093430A1
公开(公告)日:2007-04-26
The present invention discloses novel compounds which have HCV protease inhibitory activity as well as methods for preparing such compounds. In another embodiment, the invention discloses pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds as well as methods of using them to treat disorders associated with the HCV protease.