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Supporting Information. Full synthetic procedures and spec-
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pounds 5-13; crystallographic data for complexes 2, 3, and 8
with JAK2 JH2 have been deposited in the RCSB Protein Data
Bank with the PDB codes 5UT4, 5UT5, and 5UT6; experi-
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Corresponding Authors
* joseph.schlessinger@yale.edu
* william.jorgensen@yale.edu
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Notes
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Gratitude is expressed to the Yale-Gilead collaboration for
support, to the staff of the Advanced Photon Source for assis-
tance, and to the NIH for training support of D.E.P.
(GM007324) and for support of the Yale Medical School X-ray
generator and detector (Shared Instrumentation Grant
1S10OD018007).
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ABBREVIATIONS
JAK, Janus Kinases; JH2, pseudo-kinase domain; FP, Fluores-
cence Polarization; Boc, tert-Butyloxycarbonyl protecting
group; DCM, dichloromethane; THF, tetrahydrofuran; DMF,
dimethylformamide; Py, pyridine; TFA, trifluoroacetic acid;
DIPEA, N,N-diisopropylethylamine, PyBop, benzotriazol-1-yl-
oxytripyrrolidinophosphonium hexafluorophosphate; HOBt,
hydroxybenzotriazole.
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