Achieving <i>In Vivo</i> Target Depletion through the Discovery and Optimization of Benzimidazolone BCL6 Degraders
作者:Benjamin R. Bellenie、Kwai-Ming J. Cheung、Ana Varela、Olivier A. Pierrat、Gavin W. Collie、Gary M. Box、Michael D. Bright、Sharon Gowan、Angela Hayes、Matthew J. Rodrigues、Kartika N. Shetty、Michael Carter、Owen A. Davis、Alan T. Henley、Paolo Innocenti、Louise D. Johnson、Manjuan Liu、Selby de Klerk、Yann-Vaï Le Bihan、Matthew G. Lloyd、P. Craig McAndrew、Erald Shehu、Rachel Talbot、Hannah L. Woodward、Rosemary Burke、Vladimir Kirkin、Rob L. M. van Montfort、Florence I. Raynaud、Olivia W. Rossanese、Swen Hoelder
DOI:10.1021/acs.jmedchem.9b02076
日期:2020.4.23
Deregulation of the transcriptional repressor BCL6 enables tumorigenesis of germinal center B-cells, and hence BCL6 has been proposed as a therapeutic target for the treatment of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). Herein we report the discovery of a series of benzimidazolone inhibitors of the protein-protein interaction between BCL6 and its co-repressors. A subset of these inhibitors were found to cause rapid degradation of BCL6, and optimization of pharmacokinetic properties led to the discovery of 5-((5-chloro-2-((3R,SS)-4,4-difluoro-3,5-dimethylpiperi din-1-yl) pyrimidin-4-yl) amino)-3-(3-hydroxy-3-methylbutyl)-1-methyl-1,3-dihydro-2H-benzo[d]imidazol-2-one (CCT369260), which reduces BCL6 levels in a lymphoma xenograft mouse model following oral dosing.