Lead Optimization toward Proof-of-Concept Tools for Huntington’s Disease within a 4-(1<i>H</i>-Pyrazol-4-yl)pyrimidine Class of Pan-JNK Inhibitors
作者:John Wityak、Kevin F. McGee、Michael P. Conlon、Ren Hua Song、Bryan C. Duffy、Brent Clayton、Michael Lynch、Gwen Wang、Emily Freeman、James Haber、Douglas B. Kitchen、David D. Manning、Jiffry Ismail、Yuri Khmelnitsky、Peter Michels、Jeff Webster、Macarena Irigoyen、Michele Luche、Monica Hultman、Mei Bai、IokTeng D. Kuok、Ryan Newell、Marieke Lamers、Philip Leonard、Dawn Yates、Kim Matthews、Lynette Ongeri、Steve Clifton、Tania Mead、Susan Deupree、Pat Wheelan、Kathy Lyons、Claire Wilson、Alex Kiselyov、Leticia Toledo-Sherman、Maria Beconi、Ignacio Muñoz-Sanjuan、Jonathan Bard、Celia Dominguez
DOI:10.1021/jm5013598
日期:2015.4.9
Through medicinal chemistry lead optimization studies focused on calculated properties and guided by X-ray crystallography and computational modeling, potent pan-JNK inhibitors were identified that showed submicromolar activity in a cellular assay. Using in vitro ADME profiling data, 9t was identified as possessing favorable permeability and a low potential for efflux, but it was rapidly cleared in liver microsomal incubations. In a mouse pharmacokinetics study, compound 9t was brain-penetrant after oral dosing, but exposure was limited by high plasma clearance. Brain exposure at a level expected to support modulation of a pharmacodynamic marker in mouse was achieved when the compound was coadministered with the pan-cytochrome P450 inhibitor 1-aminobenzotriazole.