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Abdallah M, Hamed MM, Frakolaki E, Katsamakas S, Vassilaki N, Bartenschlager R, Zoidis G, Hirsch AKH, Abdel-Halim M, Abadi AH. Redesigning of the cap conformation and symmetry of the diphenylethyne core to yield highly potent pan-genotypic NS5A inhibitors with high potency and high resistance barrier. Eur J Med Chem 2021; 229:114034. [PMID: 34959173 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2021.114034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2021] [Revised: 11/28/2021] [Accepted: 11/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
Abstract
Herein, we report the discovery of several NS5A inhibitors with potency against HCV genotype 1b in the picomolar range. Compounds (15, 33) were of extremely high potency against HCV genotype 1b (EC50 ≈ 1 pM), improved activity against genotype 3a (GT 3a) and good metabolic stability. We studied the impact of changing the cap conformation relative to the diphenylethyne core and/or compound symmetry on both potency and metabolic stability. The analogs obtained exhibited improved potency against HCV genotypes 1a, 1b, 3a and 4a compared to the clinically approved candidate daclatasvir with EC50 values in the low picomolar range and SI50s > 7 orders of magnitude. Compound 15, a symmetrically m-, m'-substituted diphenyl ethyne analog, was 150-fold more potent than daclatasvir against GT 3a, while compound 33, an asymmetrically m-, p-substituted diphenyl ethyne analog, was 35-fold more potent than daclatasvir against GT 3a. In addition, compound 15 exhibited a higher resistance barrier than daclatasvir against genotype 1b.
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Affiliation(s)
- Mennatallah Abdallah
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, German University in Cairo, Cairo, 11835, Egypt
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- Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Saarland University Campus E8.1, 66123, Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Molecular Virology Laboratory, Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Vas. Sofias Avenue, 11521, Athens, Greece
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- School of Health Sciences, Department of Pharmacy, Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis-Zografou, GR-15771, Athens, Greece
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- Molecular Virology Laboratory, Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Vas. Sofias Avenue, 11521, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Molecular Virology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany; German Center for Infection Research, Heidelberg Partner Site, Germany
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- School of Health Sciences, Department of Pharmacy, Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis-Zografou, GR-15771, Athens, Greece.
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- Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Saarland University Campus E8.1, 66123, Saarbrücken, Germany; Department of Pharmacy, Saarland University, Campus E8.1, Saarbrücken, 66123, Germany
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, German University in Cairo, Cairo, 11835, Egypt.
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, German University in Cairo, Cairo, 11835, Egypt.
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Wang Y, Maity N, Zhao L, Krämer M, Hasegawa JY, Shichibu Y, Konishi K, Wang X, Song Z, Bando M, Nakano T. A Triad Fluorenone Derivative Bearing Two Imidazole Groups That Switches between Three States by Base and Acid Stimuli. CHEM LETT 2021. [DOI: 10.1246/cl.210112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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- Yuting Wang
- Institute for Catalysis and Graduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Hokkaido University, N21 W10, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 001-0021, Japan
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- Institute for Catalysis and Graduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Hokkaido University, N21 W10, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 001-0021, Japan
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- Institute for Catalysis and Graduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Hokkaido University, N21 W10, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 001-0021, Japan
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- Institute for Catalysis and Graduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Hokkaido University, N21 W10, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 001-0021, Japan
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- Institute for Catalysis and Graduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Hokkaido University, N21 W10, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 001-0021, Japan
- Integrated Research Consortium on Chemical Sciences (IRCCS), Institute for Catalysis, Hokkaido University, N21 W10, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 001-0021, Japan
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- Faculty of Environmental Earth Sciences, Hokkaido University, N10 W5, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810, Japan
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- Faculty of Environmental Earth Sciences, Hokkaido University, N10 W5, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810, Japan
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- Institute for Catalysis and Graduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Hokkaido University, N21 W10, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 001-0021, Japan
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- Institute for Catalysis and Graduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Hokkaido University, N21 W10, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 001-0021, Japan
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- Institute for Catalysis and Graduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Hokkaido University, N21 W10, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 001-0021, Japan
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- Institute for Catalysis and Graduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Hokkaido University, N21 W10, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 001-0021, Japan
- Integrated Research Consortium on Chemical Sciences (IRCCS), Institute for Catalysis, Hokkaido University, N21 W10, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 001-0021, Japan
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You Y, Kim HS, Park JW, Keum G, Jang SK, Kim BM. Sulfur(vi) fluoride exchange as a key reaction for synthesizing biaryl sulfate core derivatives as potent hepatitis C virus NS5A inhibitors and their structure-activity relationship studies. RSC Adv 2018; 8:31803-31821. [PMID: 35548241 PMCID: PMC9085918 DOI: 10.1039/c8ra05471a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2018] [Accepted: 08/28/2018] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Extremely potent, new hepatitis C virus (HCV) nonstructural 5A (NS5A) featuring substituted biaryl sulfate core structures was designed and synthesized. Based on the previously reported novel HCV NS5A inhibitors featuring biaryl sulfate core structures which exhibit two-digit picomolar half-maximal effective concentration (EC50) values against HCV genotype 1b and 2a, the new inhibitors equipped with the sulfate core structures containing diversely substituted aryl groups were explored. In this study, highly efficient, chemoselective coupling reactions between an arylsulfonyl fluoride and an aryl silyl ether, known as the sulfur(vi) fluoride exchange (SuFEx) reaction, were utilized. Among the inhibitors prepared based on the SuFEx chemistry, compounds 14, 15 and 29 exhibited two-digit picomolar EC50 values against GT-1b and single digit or sub nanomolar activities against the HCV GT-2a strain. Nonsymmetrical inhibitors containing an imidazole and amide moieties on each side of the sulfate core structures were also synthesized. In addition, a biotinylated probe targeting NS5A protein was prepared for labeling using the same synthetic methodology.
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- Youngsu You
- Department of Chemistry, College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University Seoul 08826 South Korea
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- Division of Integrative Biosciences and Biotechnology, Pohang University of Science and Technology Pohang 37673 South Korea
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- Supercomputing Modeling & Simulation Center, Division of Data Analysis, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) 245 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu Daejeon 34141 South Korea
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- Center for Neuro-Medicine, Brain Science Institute, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) Hwarangno 14-gil 5, Seongbuk-gu Seoul 02455 South Korea
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- Department of Life Sciences, Pohang University of Science and Technology Pohang 37673 South Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University Seoul 08826 South Korea
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Moore TO, Paradowski M, Ward SE. An atom-efficient and convergent approach to the preparation of NS5A inhibitors by C-H activation. Org Biomol Chem 2016; 14:3307-13. [PMID: 26936019 DOI: 10.1039/c6ob00340k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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A novel approach of the convergent functionalisation of aryl dibromides to form NS5A type inhibitors using C-H activation is reported. The focus of investigation was to reduce the formation of homodimeric side product, as well as to investigate the scope of different aryl dibromides that were tolerated under the reaction conditions. The C-H activation methodology was found to give a viable synthetic route to NS5A inhibitors, with late stage functionalisation of the core portion of the molecule, albeit with some chemical functionalities not tolerated.
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- Thomas O Moore
- Sussex Drug Discovery Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton, England BN1 9QJ, UK.
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- Sussex Drug Discovery Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton, England BN1 9QJ, UK.
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- Sussex Drug Discovery Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton, England BN1 9QJ, UK.
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