1区 · 医学
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作者: Lamb, Michelle L ; Hennessy, Edward J ; Shaw, Joseph ; Storer, R Ian ; Li, Chengzhi ; Börjesson, Ulf ; Liu, Jianming ; Cheung, Tony ; O'Neill, Daniel J ; Yang, Wenzhen ; Alkhatib, Omar ; Stubbs, Christopher J ; Wang, Peng ; Snijder, Arjan ; Qiao, Jingchuan ; Phillips, Christopher ; Wang, Jingwen ; Collie, Gavin W ; Khurana, Puneet ; Embrey, Kevin J ; Han, Fujin ; Moss, Thomas A ; Dale, Ian L ; Koh, Cheryl M ; Barlind, Louise ; Sun, Dong-Qing ; Michaelides, Iacovos N ; Vasalou, Christina
Recent clinical reports have highlighted the need for wild-type (WT) and mutant dual inhibitors of c-MET kinase for the treatment of cancer. We report herein a novel chemical series of ATP competitive type-III inhibitors of WT and D1228V mutant c-MET. Using a combination of structure-based drug design and computational analyses, ligand 2 was optimized to a highly selective chemical series with nanomolar activities in biochemical and cellular settings. Representatives of the series demonstrate excellent pharmacokinetic profiles in rat in vivo studies with promising free-brain exposures, paving the way for the design of brain permeable drugs for the treatment of c-MET driven cancers.