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The free fatty acid receptor 1 (FFA1/GPR40) has attracted interest as a novel target for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. Several series of FFA1 agonists including TAK-875, the most advanced compound terminated in phase III studies due to concerns about liver toxicity, have been hampered by relatively high molecular weight and lipophilicity. Aiming to develop potent FFA1 agonists with low risk of liver toxicity by decreasing the lipophilicity, the middle phenyl of TAK-875 was replaced by 11 polar five-membered heteroaromatics. Subsequently, systematic exploration of SAR and application of molecular modeling, leads to the identification of compound 44, which was an excellent FFA1 agonist with robustly hypoglycemic effect both in normal and type 2 diabetic mice, low risks of hypoglycemia and liver toxicity even at the twice molar dose of TAK-875. Meanwhile, two important findings were noted. First, the methyl group in our thiazole series occupied a small hydrophobic subpocket which had no interactions with TAK-875. Furthermore, the agonistic activity revealed a good correlation with the dihedral angle between thiazole core and the terminal benzene ring. These results promote the understanding of ligand-binding pocket and might help to design more promising FFA1 agonists.

Therapeutics of metastatic or triple-negative breast cancer are still challenging in clinical. Herein we demonstrated the design and optimization of a series of hybrid of 2,4-diaminopyrimidine and arylthiazole derivatives for their anti-proliferative properties against two breast cancer cell lines (MCF-7 as human breast cancer and MDA-MB-231 as triple-negative breast cancer). More importantly, some of those compounds with potent antiproliferative activities also indicated excellent inhibitory activities against MDA-MB-231 cell migration. These results suggested that the new series of hybridation of aryl-thiazoles and aminopyrimidines could be identified and developed as novel highly potential anticancer agents against the triple-negative breast cancer as well as metastatic one in the future.

A novel series of 1-((4-methyl-2-substituted thiazol-5-yl)methyleneamino)- 2-substituted isothiourea derivatives was synthesized by alkylation of (Z/E)-1-((4-methyl-2-substituted thiazol-5-yl)methylene)thiosemicarbazide with alkylhalide in acetone. All th