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  2. Identification of benzothiazole derived monosaccharides as potent, selective, and orally bioavailable inhibitors of human and mouse galectin-3; a rare example of using a S···O binding interaction for drug design

Identification of benzothiazole derived monosaccharides as potent, selective, and orally bioavailable inhibitors of human and mouse galectin-3; a rare example of using a S···O binding interaction for drug design

  • Bioorg Med Chem. 2024 Mar 1:101:117638. doi: 10.1016/j.bmc.2024.117638.
Chunjian Liu 1 Wei Wang 2 Jianxin Feng 2 Brett Beno 2 Thiruvenkadam Raja 3 Jacob Swidorski 2 Raju K V L P Manepalli 3 Muthalagu Vetrichelvan 3 Prasada Rao Jalagam 3 Satheesh K Nair 3 Anuradha Gupta 3 Manoranjan Panda 3 Kaushik Ghosh 3 Jinal Kaushikkumar Shukla 3 Harinath Sale 3 Devang Shah 3 Shashyendra Singh Gautam 3 Dipal Patel 2 Arvind Mathur 2 Bruce A Ellsworth 2 Dong Cheng 2 Alicia Regueiro-Ren 2
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Affiliations

  • 1 Research & Early Development, Bristol Myers Squibb Company, P.O. Box 4000, Princeton, NJ 08543, United States. Electronic address: chunjian.liu@bms.com.
  • 2 Research & Early Development, Bristol Myers Squibb Company, P.O. Box 4000, Princeton, NJ 08543, United States.
  • 3 Biocon-Bristol Myers Squibb Research and Development Center, Bangalore 560099, India.
Abstract

As a result of our continued efforts to pursue Gal-3 inhibitors that could be used to fully evaluate the potential of Gal-3 as a therapeutic target, two novel series of benzothiazole derived Monosaccharides as potent (against both human and mouse Gal-3) and orally bioavailable Gal-3 inhibitors, represented by 4 and 5, respectively, were identified. These discoveries were made based on proposals that the benzothiazole sulfur atom could interact with the carbonyl oxygen of G182/G196 in h/mGal-3, and that the anomeric triazole moiety could be modified into an N-methyl carboxamide functionality. The interaction between the benzothiazole sulfur and the carbonyl oxygen of G196 in mGal-3 was confirmed by an X-ray co-crystal structure of early lead 9, providing a rare example of using a S···O binding interaction for drug design. It was found that for both the series, methylation of 3-OH in the Monosaccharides caused no loss in h & mGal-3 potencies but significantly improved permeability of the molecules.

Keywords

Benzothiazole; Galectin-3 (Gal-3); Galectin-3 (Gal-3) inhibitor; Interaction between sulfur and carbonyl oxygen atoms; Monosaccharide galectin-3 (Gal-3) inhibitor; X-ray co-crystal structure with Galectin-3 (Gal-3).

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