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ID: ALA2177008

Journal: ACS Med Chem Lett

Title: Discovery of benzodiazepine sulfonamide-based bombesin receptor subtype 3 agonists and their unusual chirality.

Authors: Liu P, Lanza TJ, Chioda M, Jones C, Chobanian HR, Guo Y, Chang L, Kelly TM, Kan Y, Palyha O, Guan XM, Marsh DJ, Metzger JM, Ramsay K, Wang SP, Strack AM, Miller R, Pang J, Lyons K, Dragovic J, Ning JG, Schafer WA, Welch CJ, Gong X, Gao YD, Hornak V, Ball RG, Tsou N, Reitman ML, Wyvratt MJ, Nargund RP, Lin LS.

Abstract: We report herein the discovery of benzodiazepine sulfonamide-based bombesin receptor subtype 3 (BRS-3) agonists and their unusual chirality. Starting from a high-throughput screening lead, we prepared a series of BRS-3 agonists with improved potency and pharmacokinetic properties, of which compound 8a caused mechanism-based, dose-dependent food intake reduction and body weight loss after oral dosing in diet-induced obese mice. This effort also led to the discovery of a novel family of chiral molecules originated from the conformationally constrained seven-membered diazepine ring.

CiteXplore: 24900283

DOI: 10.1021/ml200207w