{"title":"Potential of Histone Deacetylase 6 Inhibitors as a Treatment of Neurodegenerative Diseases.","authors":"Ahmed F Abdel-Magid","doi":"10.1021/acsmedchemlett.5c00024","DOIUrl":"10.1021/acsmedchemlett.5c00024","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The invention in this patent application relates to 2-substituted-6-(5-(difluoromethyl)-1,3,4-oxadiazol-2-yl)isoindolin-1-one derivatives represented herein by formula 1. These compounds possess HDAC6 inhibitory activity and may be useful for the treatment of central nervous system diseases including neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and progressive supranuclear palsy.</p>","PeriodicalId":20,"journal":{"name":"ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters","volume":"16 2","pages":"210-212"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11831376/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143447416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andrew McGown, Vesna Vetma, Damien Crepin, Yan Lin, Claire Adcock, Conner Craigon, Jordan Nafie, Daniel von Emloh, Léa Sutton, Kiera Bailey, Lewis Edmunds, Manvendra Sharma, Jonathan D Wilden, Simon J Coles, Graham J Tizzard, William Farnaby, Alessio Ciulli, George E Kostakis, John Spencer
{"title":"Use of Aldehyde-Alkyne-Amine Couplings to Generate Medicinal Chemistry-Relevant Linkers.","authors":"Andrew McGown, Vesna Vetma, Damien Crepin, Yan Lin, Claire Adcock, Conner Craigon, Jordan Nafie, Daniel von Emloh, Léa Sutton, Kiera Bailey, Lewis Edmunds, Manvendra Sharma, Jonathan D Wilden, Simon J Coles, Graham J Tizzard, William Farnaby, Alessio Ciulli, George E Kostakis, John Spencer","doi":"10.1021/acsmedchemlett.4c00531","DOIUrl":"10.1021/acsmedchemlett.4c00531","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Copper catalyzed aldehyde-alkyne-amine (A<sup>3</sup>) couplings lead to multifunctional, racemic, propargylic amines, many on a multigram scale. As part of an industrial collaboration, a selection of linkers was purified by chiral HPLC to afford single enantiomers, the absolute configuration of which was determined by vibrational circular dichroism (vCD). To show medicinal chemistry applications, selected linkers were further derivatized into potential cellular probes and (+)-JQ1 containing PROTACs (proteolysis targeting chimeras), which degraded their target protein BRD4.</p>","PeriodicalId":20,"journal":{"name":"ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters","volume":"16 2","pages":"278-284"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11831382/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143447430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andrew McGown*, Vesna Vetma, Damien Crepin, Yan Lin, Claire Adcock, Conner Craigon, Jordan Nafie, Daniel von Emloh, Léa Sutton, Kiera Bailey, Lewis Edmunds, Manvendra Sharma, Jonathan D. Wilden, Simon J. Coles, Graham J. Tizzard, William Farnaby, Alessio Ciulli, George E. Kostakis and John Spencer*,
{"title":"Use of Aldehyde–Alkyne–Amine Couplings to Generate Medicinal Chemistry-Relevant Linkers","authors":"Andrew McGown*, Vesna Vetma, Damien Crepin, Yan Lin, Claire Adcock, Conner Craigon, Jordan Nafie, Daniel von Emloh, Léa Sutton, Kiera Bailey, Lewis Edmunds, Manvendra Sharma, Jonathan D. Wilden, Simon J. Coles, Graham J. Tizzard, William Farnaby, Alessio Ciulli, George E. Kostakis and John Spencer*, ","doi":"10.1021/acsmedchemlett.4c0053110.1021/acsmedchemlett.4c00531","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmedchemlett.4c00531https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmedchemlett.4c00531","url":null,"abstract":"<p >Copper catalyzed aldehyde–alkyne–amine (A<sup>3</sup>) couplings lead to multifunctional, racemic, propargylic amines, many on a multigram scale. As part of an industrial collaboration, a selection of linkers was purified by chiral HPLC to afford single enantiomers, the absolute configuration of which was determined by vibrational circular dichroism (vCD). To show medicinal chemistry applications, selected linkers were further derivatized into potential cellular probes and (+)-JQ1 containing PROTACs (proteolysis targeting chimeras), which degraded their target protein BRD4.</p>","PeriodicalId":20,"journal":{"name":"ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters","volume":"16 2","pages":"278–284 278–284"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/epdf/10.1021/acsmedchemlett.4c00531","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143397274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Timothy P C Rooney, Gregory G Aldred, David Winpenny, Helen Scott, Henriette M G Willems, Iryna Voytyuk, Jonathan H Clarke, Helen K Boffey, Stephen P Andrews, John Skidmore
{"title":"Development of the Pyrido[2,3-<i>d</i>]pyrimidin-7(8<i>H</i>)-one Scaffold toward Potent and Selective NUAK1 Inhibitors.","authors":"Timothy P C Rooney, Gregory G Aldred, David Winpenny, Helen Scott, Henriette M G Willems, Iryna Voytyuk, Jonathan H Clarke, Helen K Boffey, Stephen P Andrews, John Skidmore","doi":"10.1021/acsmedchemlett.4c00579","DOIUrl":"10.1021/acsmedchemlett.4c00579","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The protein kinase NUAK1 has been implicated in various biological functions including cell adhesion, migration and proliferation. Genetic reduction of NUAK1 expression has notably been shown to lower total levels of human tau in a tauopathy mouse model, identifying this kinase as a potential therapeutic target for neurodegenerative disease. In this paper, we describe improvement of the NUAK1 potency, kinase-selectivity and pharmacokinetic properties of the brain-penetrant but unselective CDK4/CDK6/NUAK1 inhibitor ON123300. Through a scaffold-optimization approach we have identified different chemotypes delivering NUAK1 inhibition with improved potency and selectivity over CDK kinases compared with ON123300. We present ADME profiling and in vivo pharmacokinetic data for these compounds.</p>","PeriodicalId":20,"journal":{"name":"ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters","volume":"16 2","pages":"327-335"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11831560/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143447349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yaëlle Fischer, Ruel Cedeno, Dhoha Triki, Bertrand Vivet, Philippe Schambel
{"title":"Evaluating the Diversity and Target Addressability of DELs using Scaffold Analysis and Machine Learning.","authors":"Yaëlle Fischer, Ruel Cedeno, Dhoha Triki, Bertrand Vivet, Philippe Schambel","doi":"10.1021/acsmedchemlett.4c00505","DOIUrl":"10.1021/acsmedchemlett.4c00505","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>DELs enable efficient experimental screening of vast combinatorial libraries, offering a powerful platform for drug discovery. Apart from ensuring the druglike physicochemical properties, other key parameters to maximize the success rate of DEL designs include the scaffold diversity and target addressability. While several tools exist to assess chemical diversity, a dedicated computational approach combining both parameters is currently lacking. Here, we present a cheminformatics tool leveraging scaffold analysis and machine learning to evaluate both scaffold diversity and target-orientedness. Using two in-house libraries as a case study, we demonstrate the workflow's ability to distinguish between generalist and focused libraries. This capability can guide medicinal chemists in selecting libraries tailored for specific objectives, such as hit-finding or hit-optimization. To facilitate utilization, this tool is freely available both as a web application and as a Python script at https://github.com/novalixofficial/NovaWebApp.</p>","PeriodicalId":20,"journal":{"name":"ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters","volume":"16 2","pages":"263-270"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11831401/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143447385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Potential of Histone Deacetylase 6 Inhibitors as a Treatment of Neurodegenerative Diseases","authors":"Ahmed F. Abdel-Magid*, ","doi":"10.1021/acsmedchemlett.5c0002410.1021/acsmedchemlett.5c00024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmedchemlett.5c00024https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmedchemlett.5c00024","url":null,"abstract":"<p >The invention in this patent application relates to 2-substituted-6-(5-(difluoromethyl)-1,3,4-oxadiazol-2-yl)isoindolin-1-one derivatives represented herein by formula 1. These compounds possess HDAC6 inhibitory activity and may be useful for the treatment of central nervous system diseases including neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease and progressive supranuclear palsy.</p>","PeriodicalId":20,"journal":{"name":"ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters","volume":"16 2","pages":"210–212 210–212"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143397276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Timothy P. C. Rooney, Gregory G. Aldred, David Winpenny, Helen Scott, Henriette M. G. Willems, Iryna Voytyuk, Jonathan H. Clarke, Helen K. Boffey*, Stephen P. Andrews and John Skidmore*,
{"title":"Development of the Pyrido[2,3-d]pyrimidin-7(8H)-one Scaffold toward Potent and Selective NUAK1 Inhibitors","authors":"Timothy P. C. Rooney, Gregory G. Aldred, David Winpenny, Helen Scott, Henriette M. G. Willems, Iryna Voytyuk, Jonathan H. Clarke, Helen K. Boffey*, Stephen P. Andrews and John Skidmore*, ","doi":"10.1021/acsmedchemlett.4c0057910.1021/acsmedchemlett.4c00579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmedchemlett.4c00579https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmedchemlett.4c00579","url":null,"abstract":"<p >The protein kinase NUAK1 has been implicated in various biological functions including cell adhesion, migration and proliferation. Genetic reduction of NUAK1 expression has notably been shown to lower total levels of human tau in a tauopathy mouse model, identifying this kinase as a potential therapeutic target for neurodegenerative disease. In this paper, we describe improvement of the NUAK1 potency, kinase-selectivity and pharmacokinetic properties of the brain-penetrant but unselective CDK4/CDK6/NUAK1 inhibitor ON123300. Through a scaffold-optimization approach we have identified different chemotypes delivering NUAK1 inhibition with improved potency and selectivity over CDK kinases compared with ON123300. We present ADME profiling and in vivo pharmacokinetic data for these compounds.</p>","PeriodicalId":20,"journal":{"name":"ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters","volume":"16 2","pages":"327–335 327–335"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/epdf/10.1021/acsmedchemlett.4c00579","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143397275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Novel Triazine Derivatives as NLRP3 Inhibitors for Treating Asthma or COPD","authors":"Ram W. Sabnis*, ","doi":"10.1021/acsmedchemlett.5c0002010.1021/acsmedchemlett.5c00020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmedchemlett.5c00020https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmedchemlett.5c00020","url":null,"abstract":"<p >Provided herein are novel triazine derivatives as NLRP3 inhibitors, pharmaceutical compositions, use of such compounds in treating asthma or COPD, and processes for preparing such compounds.</p>","PeriodicalId":20,"journal":{"name":"ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters","volume":"16 2","pages":"200–201 200–201"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143397308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pedro Soares, Mizzanoor Rahaman, Pamela Maher, Richard B Silverman
{"title":"Protection against Amyloid-β Aggregation and Ferroptosis/Oxytosis Toxicity by Arylpyrazolones: Alzheimer's Disease Therapeutics.","authors":"Pedro Soares, Mizzanoor Rahaman, Pamela Maher, Richard B Silverman","doi":"10.1021/acsmedchemlett.4c00530","DOIUrl":"10.1021/acsmedchemlett.4c00530","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Alzheimer's disease (AD) incurs heavy costs for both the population and health systems. Nevertheless, the drugs available only provide minimal symptomatic management without much impact on the patients' quality of life. The multifactorial character of AD suggests that the development of new therapies modulating multiple biological targets contributing to disease progression will more efficiently treat the disease. The success of therapies targeting amyloid-beta oligomers suggests this is a valid approach for the development of more efficacious therapies for AD. Here, we report the design and evaluation of a series of arylpyrazolone compounds for their activity against Aβ aggregation toxicity and oxidative stress. The lead compound (<b>1</b>) has an EC<sub>50</sub> value of 270 nM, good blood-brain barrier permeation <i>in vivo</i> and promising bioavailability. This study demonstrates the potential of these arylpyrazolones as novel, and potentially more effective, multifactorial therapies for AD.</p>","PeriodicalId":20,"journal":{"name":"ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters","volume":"16 2","pages":"294-300"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11831554/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143447424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pedro Soares, Mizzanoor Rahaman, Pamela Maher and Richard B. Silverman*,
{"title":"Protection against Amyloid-β Aggregation and Ferroptosis/Oxytosis Toxicity by Arylpyrazolones: Alzheimer’s Disease Therapeutics","authors":"Pedro Soares, Mizzanoor Rahaman, Pamela Maher and Richard B. Silverman*, ","doi":"10.1021/acsmedchemlett.4c0053010.1021/acsmedchemlett.4c00530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmedchemlett.4c00530https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmedchemlett.4c00530","url":null,"abstract":"<p >Alzheimer’s disease (AD) incurs heavy costs for both the population and health systems. Nevertheless, the drugs available only provide minimal symptomatic management without much impact on the patients’ quality of life. The multifactorial character of AD suggests that the development of new therapies modulating multiple biological targets contributing to disease progression will more efficiently treat the disease. The success of therapies targeting amyloid-beta oligomers suggests this is a valid approach for the development of more efficacious therapies for AD. Here, we report the design and evaluation of a series of arylpyrazolone compounds for their activity against Aβ aggregation toxicity and oxidative stress. The lead compound (<b>1</b>) has an EC<sub>50</sub> value of 270 nM, good blood-brain barrier permeation <i>in vivo</i> and promising bioavailability. This study demonstrates the potential of these arylpyrazolones as novel, and potentially more effective, multifactorial therapies for AD.</p>","PeriodicalId":20,"journal":{"name":"ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters","volume":"16 2","pages":"294–300 294–300"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143397316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}