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  2. Discovery of a potent boronic acid derived inhibitor of the HCV RNA-dependent RNA polymerase

Discovery of a potent boronic acid derived inhibitor of the HCV RNA-dependent RNA polymerase

  • J Med Chem. 2014 Mar 13;57(5):1902-13. doi: 10.1021/jm400317w.
Andrew Maynard 1 Renae M Crosby Byron Ellis Robert Hamatake Zhi Hong Brian A Johns Kirsten M Kahler Cecilia Koble Anna Leivers Martin R Leivers Amanda Mathis Andrew J Peat Jeffrey J Pouliot Christopher D Roberts Vicente Samano Rachel M Schmidt Gary K Smith Andrew Spaltenstein Eugene L Stewart Pia Thommes Elizabeth M Turner Christian Voitenleitner Jill T Walker Greg Waitt Jason Weatherhead Kurt Weaver Shawn Williams Lois Wright Zhiping Z Xiong David Haigh J Brad Shotwell
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  • 1 GlaxoSmithKline, Infectious Diseases Medicines Discovery Unit, 5 Moore Drive, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709-3398, United States.
Abstract

A boronic acid moiety was found to be a critical pharmacophore for enhanced in vitro potency against wild-type hepatitis C replicons and known clinical polymorphic and resistant HCV mutant replicons. The synthesis, optimization, and structure-activity relationships associated with inhibition of HCV replication in a subgenomic replication system for a series of non-nucleoside boron-containing HCV RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (NS5B) inhibitors are described. A summary of the discovery of 3 (GSK5852), a molecule which entered clinical trials in subjects infected with HCV in 2011, is included.

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