Download MendeleyRational evolution of a novel type of potent and selective proviral integration site in Moloney murine leukemia virus kinase 1 (PIM1) inhibitor from a screening-hit compound.
Nakano, H., Saito, N., Parker, L.J., Tada, Y., Abe, M., Tsuganezawa, K., Yokoyama, S., Tanaka, A., Kojima, H., Okabe, T., Nagano, T.(2012) J Med Chem 55: 5151-5164
- PubMed: 22540945
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/jm3001289
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Serine/threonine kinase PIM1 is an emerging therapeutic target for hematopoietic and prostate cancer therapy. To develop a novel PIM1 inhibitor, we focused on 1, a metabolically labile, nonselective kinase inhibitor discovered in our previous screening study. We adopted a rational optimization strategy based mainly on structural information for the PIM1-1 complex to improve the potency and selectivity. This approach afforded the potent and metabolically stable PIM1-selective inhibitor 14, which shows only a marginal increase in molecular weight compared with 1 but has a significantly decreased cLogP. The validity of our design concept was confirmed by X-ray structure analysis. In a cellular study, 14 potently inhibited the growth of human leukemia cell line MV4-11 but had a negligible effect on the growth of WI-38 (surrogate for general toxicity). These results demonstrate the effectiveness of our design strategy for evolving the screening-hit compound 1 into a novel type of PIM1 inhibitor, 14.
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Open Innovation Center for Drug Discovery, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
