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  2. Discovery of thiazolobenzoxepin PI3-kinase inhibitors that spare the PI3-kinase β isoform

Discovery of thiazolobenzoxepin PI3-kinase inhibitors that spare the PI3-kinase β isoform

  • Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2013 May 1;23(9):2606-13. doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2013.02.102.
Steven T Staben 1 Chudi Ndubaku Nicole Blaquiere Marcia Belvin Richard J Bull Danette Dudley Kyle Edgar Daniel Gray Robert Heald Timothy P Heffron Graham E Jones Mark Jones Aleks Kolesnikov Leslie Lee John Lesnick Cristina Lewis Jeremy Murray Neville J McLean Jim Nonomiya Alan G Olivero Rachel Ord Jodie Pang Stephen Price Wei Wei Prior Lionel Rouge Laurent Salphati Deepak Sampath Jeff Wallin Lan Wang BinQing Wei Christian Weismann Ping Wu
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Affiliation

  • 1 Discovery Chemistry, Genentech, Inc., 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA. stevents@gene.com
Abstract

A series of suitable five-membered heterocyclic alternatives to thiophenes within a thienobenzoxepin class of PI3-kinase (PI3K) inhibitors was discovered. Specific thiazolobenzoxepin 8-substitution was identified that increased selectivity over PI3Kβ. PI3Kβ-sparing compound 27 (PI3Kβ Ki,app/PI3Kα Ki,app=57) demonstrated dose-dependent knockdown of pAKT, pPRAS40 and pS6RP in vivo as well as differential effects in an in vitro proliferation cell line screen compared to pan PI3K Inhibitor GDC-0941. A new structure-based hypothesis for reducing inhibition of the PI3K β isoform while maintaining activity against α, δ and γ isoforms is presented.

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