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Estrogen receptor modulators: Identification and structure-activity relationships of potent ERα-selective tetrahydroisoquinoline ligands
Renaud, Johanne,Bischoff, Serge Fran?ois,Buhl, Thomas,Floersheim, Philipp,Fournier, Brigitte,Halleux, Christine,Kallen, Joerg,Keller, Hansjoerg,Schlaeppi, Jean-Marc,Stark, Wilhelm
, p. 2945 - 2957 (2007/10/03)
As part of a program aimed at the development of selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs), tetrahydroisoquinoline derivative 27 was discovered by high throughput screening. Successive replacements of the p-F substituent of 27 by an aminoethoxy side chain and of the 1-H of the tetrahydroisoquinoline core by a 1-Me group provided analogues 19 and 20. These compounds showed potencies in a cell-based reporter gene assay (ERE assay) varying between 0.6 and 20 nM and displayed antagonist behaviors in the MCF-7 human breast adenocarcinoma cell line with IC50s in the range of 2-36 nM. The effect of N-phenyl substituents on the activity and pharmacokinetic properties of tetrahydroisoquinoline analogues was explored. As a result of this investigation, two potent derivatives bearing a p-F N-aryl group, 19c and 20c, were discovered as candidates suitable for further profiling. To gain insight into the ligand-receptor interaction, the X-ray crystallographic structure of the 1-H tetrahydroisoquinoline derivative (R)-18a in complex with ERα-ligand binding domain (LBD)301-553/C→S triple mutant was solved to 2.28 A?. An overlay of this X-ray crystal structure with that reported for the complex of ERαLBD301-553/carboxymethylated C and raloxifene (5) shows that both compounds bind to the same cleft of the receptor and display comparable binding modes, with differences being observed in the conformation of their "D-ring" phenyl groups.
