1402004-77-6Relevant articles and documents
Discovery of a class of highly potent Janus Kinase 1/2 (JAK1/2) inhibitors demonstrating effective cell-based blockade of IL-13 signaling
Zak, Mark,Hanan, Emily J.,Lupardus, Patrick,Brown, David G.,Robinson, Colin,Siu, Michael,Lyssikatos, Joseph P.,Romero, F. Anthony,Zhao, Guiling,Kellar, Terry,Mendonca, Rohan,Ray, Nicholas C.,Goodacre, Simon C.,Crackett, Peter H.,McLean, Neville,Hurley, Christopher A.,Yuen, Po-wai,Cheng, Yun-Xing,Liu, Xiongcai,Liimatta, Marya,Kohli, Pawan Bir,Nonomiya, Jim,Salmon, Gary,Buckley, Gerry,Lloyd, Julia,Gibbons, Paul,Ghilardi, Nico,Kenny, Jane R.,Johnson, Adam
, p. 1522 - 1531 (2019)
Disruption of interleukin-13 (IL-13) signaling with large molecule antibody therapies has shown promise in diseases of allergic inflammation. Given that IL-13 recruits several members of the Janus Kinase family (JAK1, JAK2, and TYK2) to its receptor complex, JAK inhibition may offer an alternate small molecule approach to disrupting IL-13 signaling. Herein we demonstrate that JAK1 is likely the isoform most important to IL-13 signaling. Structure-based design was then used to improve the JAK1 potency of a series of previously reported JAK2 inhibitors. The ability to impede IL-13 signaling was thereby significantly improved, with the best compounds exhibiting single digit nM IC50’s in cell-based assays dependent upon IL-13 signaling. Appropriate substitution was further found to influence inhibition of a key off-target, LRRK2. Finally, the most potent compounds were found to be metabolically labile, which makes them ideal scaffolds for further development as topical agents for IL-13 mediated diseases of the lungs and skin (for example asthma and atopic dermatitis, respectively).
