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The discovery of BMS-737 as a potent, CYP17 lyase-selective inhibitor for the treatment of castration-resistant prostate cancer

  • Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2022 Nov 1:75:128951. doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2022.128951.
Chetan Padmakar Darne 1 Upender Velaparthi 2 Mark Saulnier 1 David Frennesson 1 Peiying Liu 1 Audris Huang 1 John Tokarski 1 Aberra Fura 1 Thomas Spires 1 John Newitt 1 Vanessa M Spires 1 Mary T Obermeier 1 Paul A Elzinga 1 Marco M Gottardis 1 Lata Jayaraman 1 Gregory D Vite 1 Aaron Balog 1
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  • 1 Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, P.O. Box 4000, Princeton, NJ 08543, United States.
  • 2 Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, P.O. Box 4000, Princeton, NJ 08543, United States. Electronic address: upender.velaparthi@bms.com.
Abstract

We report herein, the discovery of BMS-737 (compound 33) as a potent, non-steroidal, reversible small molecule inhibitor demonstrating 11-fold selectivity for CYP17 lyase over CYP17 hydroxylase, as well as a clean xenobiotic CYP profile for the treatment of castration-resistant prostate Cancer (CRPC). Extensive SAR studies on the initial lead 1 at three different regions of the molecule resulted in the identification of BMS-737, which demonstrated a robust 83% lowering of testosterone without any significant perturbation of the mineralocorticoid and glucocorticoid levels in cynomologous monkeys in a 1-day PK/PD study.

Keywords

Aza-indazole; CYP11B1; CYP17A1; CYP1A2; CYP21A2; Castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC); Glucocorticoids; Hydroxylase; Lyase; Mineralocorticoids; abiraterone acetate (AA).

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