Discovery of Benzodiazepine Sulfonamide-Based Bombesin Receptor Subtype 3 Agonists and Their Unusual Chirality
作者:Ping Liu、Thomas J. Lanza、Marc Chioda、Carrie Jones、Harry R. Chobanian、Yan Guo、Linda Chang、Theresa M. Kelly、Yanqing Kan、Oksana Palyha、Xiao-Ming Guan、Donald J. Marsh、Joseph M. Metzger、Katie Ramsay、Sheng-Ping Wang、Alison M. Strack、Randy Miller、Jianmei Pang、Kathy Lyons、Jasminka Dragovic、Jian G. Ning、Wes A. Schafer、Christopher J. Welch、Xiaoyi Gong、Ying-Duo Gao、Viktor Hornak、Richard G. Ball、Nancy Tsou、Marc L. Reitman、Matthew J. Wyvratt、Ravi P. Nargund、Linus S. Lin
DOI:10.1021/ml200207w
日期:2011.12.8
We report herein the discovery of benzodiazepine sulfonamide-based bombesin receptor subtype 3 (BRS-3) agonists and their unusual chirality. Starting from a high-throughput screening lead, we prepared a series of BRS-3 agonists with improved potency and pharmacokinetic properties, of which compound 8a caused mechanism-based, dose-dependent food intake reduction and body weight loss after oral dosing in diet-induced obese mice. This effort also led to the discovery of a novel family of chiral molecules originated from the conformationally constrained seven-membered diazepine ring.