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  2. SAR Studies of Exosite-Binding Substrate-Selective Inhibitors of A Disintegrin And Metalloprotease 17 (ADAM17) and Application as Selective in Vitro Probes

SAR Studies of Exosite-Binding Substrate-Selective Inhibitors of A Disintegrin And Metalloprotease 17 (ADAM17) and Application as Selective in Vitro Probes

  • J Med Chem. 2015 Aug 13;58(15):5808-24. doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.5b00354.
Anna M Knapinska 1 Daniela Dreymuller 2 Andreas Ludwig 2 Lyndsay Smith 1 Vladislav Golubkov 3 Anjum Sohail 4 Rafael Fridman 4 Marc Giulianotti 5 6 Travis M LaVoi 5 Richard A Houghten 5 Gregg B Fields 1 7 Dmitriy Minond 5
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 ∥Florida Atlantic University, 5353 Parkside Drive, Jupiter, Florida 33458, United States.
  • 2 ⊥Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, RWTH Aachen University, Wendlingweg 2, 52074 Aachen, Germany.
  • 3 ‡Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, 10901 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California 92037, United States.
  • 4 §Wayne State University, 8200 Scott Hall, 540 East Canfield Avenue, Detroit, Michigan 48201, United States.
  • 5 †Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies, 11350 SW Village Parkway, Port St. Lucie, Florida 34987, United States.
  • 6 ∇Department of Chemistry, Center for Drug Discovery and Innovation, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33612, United States.
  • 7 #The Scripps Research Institute/Scripps Florida, 130 Scripps Way, Jupiter, Florida 33458, United States.
Abstract

ADAM17 is implicated in several debilitating diseases. However, drug discovery efforts targeting ADAM17 have failed due to the utilization of zinc-binding inhibitors. We previously reported discovery of highly selective nonzinc-binding exosite-targeting inhibitors of ADAM17 that exhibited not only Enzyme isoform selectivity but synthetic substrate selectivity as well ( J. Biol. Chem. 2013, 288, 22871). As a result of SAR studies presented herein, we obtained several highly selective ADAM17 inhibitors, six of which were further characterized in biochemical and cell-based assays. Lead compounds exhibited low cellular toxicity and high potency and selectivity for ADAM17. In addition, several of the leads inhibited ADAM17 in a substrate-selective manner, which has not been previously documented for inhibitors of the ADAM family. These findings suggest that targeting exosites of ADAM17 can be used to obtain highly desirable substrate-selective inhibitors. Additionally, current inhibitors can be used as probes of biological activity of ADAM17 in various in vitro and, potentially, in vivo systems.

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