Design and Optimization of Potent and Orally Bioavailable Tetrahydronaphthalene Raf Inhibitors
摘要:
Inhibition of mutant B-Raf signaling, through either direct inhibition of the enzyme or inhibition of MEK, the direct substrate of Raf, has been demonstrated preclinically to inhibit tumor growth. Very recently, treatment of B-Raf mutant melanoma patients with a selective B-Raf inhibitor has resulted in promising preliminary evidence of antitumor activity. This article describes the design and optimization of tetrahydronaphthalene-derived compounds as potent inhibitors of the Raf pathway in vitro and in vivo. These compounds possess good pharmacokinetic properties in rodents and inhibit B-Raf mutant tumor growth in mouse xenograft models.
Optimization of tetrahydronaphthalene inhibitors of Raf with selectivity over hERG
作者:Shih-Chung Huang、Sharmila Adhikari、Roushan Afroze、Katherine Brewer、Emily F. Calderwood、Jouhara Chouitar、Dylan B. England、Craig Fisher、Katherine M. Galvin、Jeffery Gaulin、Paul D. Greenspan、Sean J. Harrison、Mi-Sook Kim、Steven P. Langston、Li-Ting Ma、Saurabh Menon、Hirotake Mizutani、Mansoureh Rezaei、Michael D. Smith、Dong Mei Zhang、Alexandra E. Gould
DOI:10.1016/j.bmcl.2016.01.049
日期:2016.2
Investigations of a biaryl ether scaffold identified tetrahydronaphthalene Raf inhibitors with good in vivo activity; however these compounds had affinity toward the hERG potassium channel. Herein we describe our work to eliminate this hERG activity via alteration of the substituents on the benzoic amide functionality. The resulting compounds have improved selectivity against the hERG channel, good