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ID: ALA1149344

Journal: J Med Chem

Title: Discovery of aminoquinazolines as potent, orally bioavailable inhibitors of Lck: synthesis, SAR, and in vivo anti-inflammatory activity.

Authors: DiMauro EF, Newcomb J, Nunes JJ, Bemis JE, Boucher C, Buchanan JL, Buckner WH, Cee VJ, Chai L, Deak HL, Epstein LF, Faust T, Gallant P, Geuns-Meyer SD, Gore A, Gu Y, Henkle B, Hodous BL, Hsieh F, Huang X, Kim JL, Lee JH, Martin MW, Masse CE, McGowan DC, Metz D, Mohn D, Morgenstern KA, Oliveira-dos-Santos A, Patel VF, Powers D, Rose PE, Schneider S, Tomlinson SA, Tudor YY, Turci SM, Welcher AA, White RD, Zhao H, Zhu L, Zhu X.

Abstract: The lymphocyte-specific kinase (Lck) is a cytoplasmic tyrosine kinase of the Src family expressed in T cells and natural killer (NK) cells. Genetic evidence in both mice and humans demonstrates that Lck kinase activity is critical for signaling mediated by the T cell receptor (TCR), which leads to normal T cell development and activation. Selective inhibition of Lck is expected to offer a new therapy for the treatment of T-cell-mediated autoimmune and inflammatory disease. Screening of our kinase-preferred collection identified aminoquinazoline 1 as a potent, nonselective inhibitor of Lck and T cell proliferation. In this report, we describe the synthesis and structure-activity relationships of a series of novel aminoquinazolines possessing in vitro mechanism-based potency. Optimized, orally bioavailable compounds 32 and 47 exhibit anti-inflammatory activity (ED(50) of 22 and 11 mg/kg, respectively) in the anti-CD3-induced production of interleukin-2 (IL-2) in mice.

CiteXplore: 16970394

DOI: 10.1021/jm0605482