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作者: Reutlinger, Michael ; Xia, Guliang ; Lassen, Kara ; Zhu, Wei ; Dey, Fabian ; Zou, Ge ; Wichert, Moreno ; Lin, Zhaohu ; Miao, Kun ; Schäfer, Ramona ; Zhang, Tong ; Yang, June ; Xu, Hongtao ; Ding, Dong ; Zhao, Dan ; Roth, Doris ; Urich, Eduard ; Chen, Shuai ; Westwood, Paul ; Xu, Bruce ; Liang, Chungen ; Yun, Hongying ; Han, Xingchun ; Casagrande, Fabio ; Ma, Tiantian ; Wu, Waikong ; Zhai, Guanglei ; Tian, Xiaojun ; Li, Chiho ; Strebel, Quentin ; Shen, Hong C ; Huang, Xinyi ; Han, Li ; Zhao, Jie ; Hilbert, Manuel ; Wu, Yao ; Heer, Dominik
Multiple screening approaches were carried out to identify novel chemistry starting for Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Kinases (PDHKs) inhibitors. Through hit triaging efforts and structure-based optimization, two series of ATP competitive inhibitors with single digit nanomolar enzymatic potency for PDHK1/2 and around 10-100-fold selectivity over PDHK4/3 were discovered. Approach of covalent inhibitor was explored to successfully improve the cellular target engagement to single digit micromolar range.