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  2. Discovery of a Novel Series of 7-Azaindole Scaffold Derivatives as PI3K Inhibitors with Potent Activity

Discovery of a Novel Series of 7-Azaindole Scaffold Derivatives as PI3K Inhibitors with Potent Activity

  • ACS Med Chem Lett. 2017 Jul 26;8(8):875-880. doi: 10.1021/acsmedchemlett.7b00222.
Chengbin Yang 1 Xi Zhang 2 Yi Wang 2 Yongtai Yang 1 Xiaofeng Liu 1 Mingli Deng 1 Yu Jia 1 Yun Ling 1 Ling-Hua Meng 2 Yaming Zhou 1
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.
  • 2 Division of Anti-tumor Pharmacology, State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201203, China.
Abstract

The phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) inhibitors potently inhibit the signaling pathway of PI3K/Akt/mTOR, which provides a promising new approach for the molecularly targeted Cancer therapy. In this work, a novel series of 7-azaindole scaffold derivatives was discovered by the fragment-based growing strategy. The structure-activity relationship profiles identified that the 7-azaindole scaffold derivatives exhibit potent activity against PI3K at molecular and cellular levels as well as cell proliferation in a panel of human tumor cells.

Keywords

1H-pyrrolo[2,3-b] pyridine; PI3K; PI3K/mTOR; cancer therapy; oncology.

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