1226-11-5Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Design of Development Candidate eFT226, a First in Class Inhibitor of Eukaryotic Initiation Factor 4A RNA Helicase
Ernst, Justin T.,Thompson, Peggy A.,Nilewski, Christian,Sprengeler, Paul A.,Sperry, Samuel,Packard, Garrick,Michels, Theodore,Xiang, Alan,Tran, Chinh,Wegerski, Christopher J.,Eam, Boreth,Young, Nathan P.,Fish, Sarah,Chen, Joan,Howard, Haleigh,Staunton, Jocelyn,Molter, Jolene,Clarine, Jeff,Nevarez, Andres,Chiang, Gary G.,Appleman, Jim R.,Webster, Kevin R.,Reich, Siegfried H.
supporting information, p. 5879 - 5955 (2020/07/03)
Dysregulation of protein translation is a key driver for the pathogenesis of many cancers. Eukaryotic initiation factor 4A (eIF4A), an ATP-dependent DEAD-box RNA helicase, is a critical component of the eIF4F complex, which regulates cap-dependent protein synthesis. The flavagline class of natural products (i.e., rocaglamide A) has been shown to inhibit protein synthesis by stabilizing a translation-incompetent complex for select messenger RNAs (mRNAs) with eIF4A. Despite showing promising anticancer phenotypes, the development of flavagline derivatives as therapeutic agents has been hampered because of poor drug-like properties as well as synthetic complexity. A focused effort was undertaken utilizing a ligand-based design strategy to identify a chemotype with optimized physicochemical properties. Also, detailed mechanistic studies were undertaken to further elucidate mRNA sequence selectivity, key regulated target genes, and the associated antitumor phenotype. This work led to the design of eFT226 (Zotatifin), a compound with excellent physicochemical properties and significant antitumor activity that supports clinical development.
4'-Hydroxy-3-methoxyflavones with potent antipicornavirus activity
De Meyer,Haemers,Mishra,Pandey,Pieters,Vanden Berghe,Vlietinck
, p. 736 - 746 (2007/10/02)
4'-Hydroxy-3-methoxyflavones are natural compounds with known antiviral activities against picornaviruses such as poliomyelitis and rhinoviruses. In order to establish a structure-activity relationship a series of analogues were synthesized, and their antiviral activities and cytotoxicities were compared with those of flavones from natural origin. The 4'-hydroxyl and 3-methoxyl groups, a substitution in the 5 position and a polysubstituted A ring appeared to be essential requirements for a high activity. The most interesting compound was 4',7-dihydroxy-3-methoxy-5,6-dimethylflavone possessing in vitro TI99 values of > 1000 and > 200 against poliovirus type 1 and rhinovirus type 15, respectively. This compound was also active against other rhinovirus serotypes (2, 9, 14, 29, 39, 41, 59, 63, 70, 85, and 89) tested, having MIC50 values ranging from 0.016 to 0.5 μg/mL. Finally in contrast to quercetin it showed to be not mutagenic in concentrations up to 2.5 mg in the Ames test.
