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  2. Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of novel 4-phenylisoquinolinone BET bromodomain inhibitors

Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of novel 4-phenylisoquinolinone BET bromodomain inhibitors

  • Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2018 Jun 1;28(10):1811-1816. doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2018.04.016.
Michael J Bennett 1 Yiqin Wu 1 Amogh Boloor 1 Jennifer Matuszkiewicz 1 Shawn M O'Connell 1 Lihong Shi 1 Ryan K Stansfield 1 Joselyn R Del Rosario 1 James M Veal 1 David J Hosfield 2 Jiangchun Xu 1 Stephen W Kaldor 1 Jeffrey A Stafford 1 Juan M Betancort 3
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Affiliations

  • 1 Celgene Quanticel Research, 10300 Campus Point Drive, Suite 100, San Diego, CA 92121, United States.
  • 2 Ben May Department for Cancer Research, University of Chicago, 929 East 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, United States.
  • 3 Celgene Quanticel Research, 10300 Campus Point Drive, Suite 100, San Diego, CA 92121, United States. Electronic address: jbetancort@celgene.com.
Abstract

The bromodomain and extra-terminal (BET) family of epigenetic proteins has attracted considerable attention in drug discovery given its involvement in regulating gene transcription. Screening a focused small molecule library based on the bromodomain pharmacophore resulted in the identification of 2-methylisoquinoline-1-one as a novel BET bromodomain-binding motif. Structure guided SAR exploration resulted in >10,000-fold potency improvement for the BRD4-BD1 bromodomain. Lead compounds exhibited excellent potencies in both biochemical and cellular assays in MYC-dependent cell lines. Compound 36 demonstrated good physicochemical properties and promising exposure levels in exploratory PK studies.

Keywords

BET; BRD4; Bromodomain inhibitors; Epigenetics; Fragment; Isoquinolinone.

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