ABSTRACT
This work describes the preparation of approximately 13,000 compounds for rapid identification of hits in high-throughput screening (HTS). These compounds were designed as potential serine/threonine or tyrosine kinase inhibitors. The library consists of various scaffolds, e.g., purines, oxindoles, and imidazoles, whereby each core scaffold generally includes the hydrogen bond acceptor/donor properties known to be important for kinase binding. Several of these are based upon literature kinase templates, or adaptations of them to provide novelty. The routes to their preparation are outlined. A variety of automation techniques were used to prepare >500 compounds per scaffold. Where applicable, scavenger resins were employed to remove excess reagents and when necessary, preparative high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) was used for purification. These compounds were screened against an 'in-house' kinase panel. The success rate in HTS was significantly higher than the corporate compound collection.
Subject(s)
Drug Design , Protein Kinase Inhibitors/chemical synthesis , Imidazoles/chemical synthesis , Imidazoles/pharmacology , Indoles/chemical synthesis , Indoles/pharmacology , Isoquinolines/chemical synthesis , Isoquinolines/pharmacology , Naphthalenes/chemical synthesis , Naphthalenes/pharmacology , Protein Kinase Inhibitors/chemistry , Protein Kinase Inhibitors/pharmacology , Purines/chemical synthesis , Purines/pharmacology , Pyrimidines/chemical synthesis , Pyrimidines/pharmacologyABSTRACT
A series of oxindoles demonstrating inhibition of the phosphorylation of biotinylated substrates of Syk and IgE/Fc epsilon RI triggered basophil cell degranulation has been identified. A study of the SAR around sulfonamide 31 (IC(50)=5 nM, EC(50)=1400 nM) is discussed. The modest cellular activity representative of the sulfonamide series was overcome when the Polar Surface Area was lowered to <110 A(2), leading to the identification of amide 32 (IC(50)=145 nM, EC(50)=100 nM).
