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Identification of potent pyrazole based APELIN receptor (APJ) agonists
Maitra, Rangan,Narayanan, Sanju,Rajagopal, Sudarshan,Runyon, Scott P.,Vasukuttan, Vineetha
, (2020/01/22)
The apelinergic system comprises the apelin receptor and its cognate apelin and elabela peptide ligands of various lengths. This system has become an increasingly attractive target for pulmonary and cardiometabolic diseases. Small molecule regulators of this receptor with good drug-like properties are needed. Recently, we discovered a novel pyrazole based small molecule agonist 8 of the apelin receptor (EC50 = 21.5 μM, Ki = 5.2 μM) through focused screening which was further optimized to initial lead 9 (EC50 = 0.800 μM, Ki = 1.3 μM). In our efforts to synthesize more potent agonists and to explore the structural features important for apelin receptor agonism, we carried out structural modifications at N1 of the pyrazole core as well as the amino acid side-chain of 9. Systematic modifications at these two positions provided potent small molecule agonists exhibiting EC50 values of 100 nM. Recruitment of β-arrestin as a measure of desensitization potential of select compounds was also investigated. Functional selectivity was a feature of several compounds with a bias towards calcium mobilization over β-arrestin recruitment. These compounds may be suitable as tools for in vivo studies of apelin receptor function.
Falcipain inhibitors: Optimization studies of the 2-pyrimidinecarbonitrile lead series
Coterón, Jose M.,Catterick, David,Castro, Julia,Chaparro, María J.,Díaz, Beatriz,Fernández, Esther,Ferrer, Santiago,Gamo, Francisco J.,Gordo, Mariola,Gut, Jiri,De Las Heras, Laura,Legac, Jennifer,Marco, Maria,Miguel, Juan,Mu?oz, Vicente,Porras, Esther,De La Rosa, Juan C.,Ruiz, Jose R.,Sandoval, Elena,Ventosa, Pilar,Rosenthal, Philip J.,Fiandor, Jose M.
experimental part, p. 6129 - 6152 (2010/10/21)
Falcipain-2 and falcipain-3 are papain-family cysteine proteases of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum that are responsible for host hemoglobin hydrolysis to provide amino acids for parasite protein synthesis. Different heteroarylnitrile derivatives were studied as potential falcipain inhibitors and therefore potential antiparasitic lead compounds, with the 5-substituted-2- cyanopyrimidine chemical class emerging as the most potent and promising lead series. Through a sequential lead optimization process considering the different positions present in the initial scaffold, nanomolar and subnanomolar inhibitors at falcipains 2 and 3 were identified, with activity against cultured parasites in the micromolar range. Introduction of protonable amines within lead molecules led to marked improvements of up to 1000 times in activity against cultured parasites without noteworthy alterations in other SAR tendencies. Optimized compounds presented enzymatic activities in the picomolar to low nanomolar range and antiparasitic activities in the low nanomolar range.
Novel azapeptide inhibitors of hepatitis C virus serine protease
Bailey, Murray D.,Halmos, Ted,Goudreau, Nathalie,Lescop, Ewen,Llinàs-Brunet, Montse
, p. 3788 - 3799 (2007/10/03)
Azapeptides are known inhibitors of several serine and cysteine proteases. In seeking different classes of inhibitors for the HCV serine protease, a series of novel azapeptide-based inhibitors were investigated which incorporated noncleavable P1/P1′ aza-a
