作者:Daniel J. Burdick、Shumei Wang、Christopher Heise、Borlan Pan、Jake Drummond、JianPing Yin、Lauren Goeser、Steven Magnuson、Jeff Blaney、John Moffat、Weiru Wang、Huifen Chen
DOI:10.1016/j.bmcl.2015.08.048
日期:2015.11
A fragment-based lead discovery approach was used to discover novel ERK2 inhibitors. The crystal structure of N-benzyl-9H-purin-6-amine 1 in complex with ERK2 elucidated its hinge-binding mode. In addition, the simultaneous binding of an imidazole molecule adjacent to 1 suggested a direction for fragment expansion. Structure-based core hopping applied to 1 led to 5H-pyrrolo[3,2-b] pyrazine (3) that afforded direct vectors to probe the pockets of interest while retaining the essential hinge binding elements. Utilizing the new vectors for SAR exploration, the new core 3 was quickly optimized to compound 39 resulting in a greater than 6600-fold improvement in potency. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.