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ID: ALA4002589

Journal: J Med Chem

Title: Tri- and Tetrasubstituted Pyridinylimidazoles as Covalent Inhibitors of c-Jun N-Terminal Kinase 3.

Authors: Muth F, El-Gokha A, Ansideri F, Eitel M, Döring E, Sievers-Engler A, Lange A, Boeckler FM, Lämmerhofer M, Koch P, Laufer SA.

Abstract: The concept of covalent inhibition of c-Jun N-terminal kinase 3 (JNK3) was successfully transferred to our well validated pyridinylimidazole scaffold varying several structural features in order to deduce crucial structure-activity relationships. Joint targeting of the hydrophobic region I and methylation of imidazole-N1 position increased the activity and reduced the number of off-targets. The most promising covalent inhibitor, the tetrasubstituted imidazole 3-acrylamido-N-(4-((4-(4-(4-fluorophenyl)-1-methyl-2-(methylthio)-1H-imidazol-5-yl)pyridin-2-yl)amino)phenyl)benzamide (7) inhibits the JNK3 in the subnanomolar range (IC50 = 0.3 nM), shows high metabolic stability in human liver microsomes, and displays excellent selectivity in a screening against a panel of 410 kinases. Covalent bond formation to Cys-154 was confirmed by incubation of the inhibitors with wild-type JNK3 and JNK3-C154A mutant followed by mass spectrometry.

CiteXplore: 27977190

DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.6b01180