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Discovery of 5-Nitro-6-thiocyanatopyrimidines as Inhibitors of Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii
Donlin, Maureen J.,Lane, Thomas R.,Riabova, Olga,Lepioshkin, Alexander,Xu, Evan,Lin, Jeffrey,Makarov, Vadim,Ekins, Sean
, p. 774 - 781 (2021/05/04)
Opportunistic infections from pathogenic fungi present a major challenge to healthcare because of a very limited arsenal of antifungal drugs, an increasing population of immunosuppressed patients, and increased prevalence of resistant clinical strains due to overuse of the few available antifungals. Cryptococcal meningitis is a life-threatening opportunistic fungal infection caused by one of two species in the Cryptococcus genus, Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii. Eighty percent of cryptococcosis diseases are caused by C. neoformans that is endemic in the environment. The standard of care is limited to old antifungals, and under a high standard of care, mortality remains between 10 and 30%. We have identified a series of 5-nitro-6-thiocyanatopyrimidine antifungal drug candidates using in vitro and computational machine learning approaches. These compounds can inhibit C. neoformans growth at submicromolar levels, are effective against fluconazole-resistant C. neoformans and a clinical strain of C. gattii, and are not antagonistic with currently approved antifungals.
Efficient Phosphorus-Free Chlorination of Hydroxy Aza-Arenes and Their Application in One-Pot Pharmaceutical Synthesis
Wang, Jian,Li, Yan-Hui,Pan, Song-Cheng,Li, Ming-Fang,Du, Wenting,Yin, Hong,Li, Jing-Hua
supporting information, p. 146 - 153 (2020/03/10)
The chlorination of hydroxy aza-arenes with bis(trichloromethyl) carbonate (BTC) and SOCl2 has been effectively performed by refluxing with 5 wt % 4-dimethylaminopyridine (DMAP) as a catalyst. Various substrates are chlorinated with high yields. The obtained chlorinated aza-arenes can be used directly with simple workup for succedent one-pot synthesis on a large scale.
Development of dichloroacetamide pyrimidines as pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase inhibitors to reduce cancer cell growth: Synthesis and biological evaluation
Zhang, Shao-Lin,Zhang, Wen,Xiao, Qingpin,Yang, Zheng,Hu, Xiaohui,Wei, Zhiyi,Tam, Kin Yip
, p. 78762 - 78767 (2016/09/09)
Pyruvate dehydrogenases kinases (PDKs) have recently emerged as an attractive target for anticancer treatment. Herein, we report the synthesis and biological evaluation of novel PDK1 inhibitors as anticancer agents. Of the newly synthesized compounds, N-(4,6-bis(4-(2-hydroxyacetyl)piperazin-1-yl)-2-methylpyrimidin-5-yl)-2,2-dichloroacetamide (40) is found to inhibit the growth of SF188 cancer cells with an IC50 value of 8.21 M. Isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) experiments reveal that compound 40 directly binds to PDK1 with a Kd value of 14.7 M. Compound 40 inhibits PDK1 activity by 72.5% at a concentration of 40 , meaning it could be a useful compound to explore the pharmacology of PDK1.