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  2. Exploration of the internal cavity of histone deacetylase (HDAC) with selective HDAC1/HDAC2 inhibitors (SHI-1:2)

Exploration of the internal cavity of histone deacetylase (HDAC) with selective HDAC1/HDAC2 inhibitors (SHI-1:2)

  • Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2008 Feb 1;18(3):973-8. doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2007.12.031.
Joey L Methot 1 Prasun K Chakravarty Melissa Chenard Joshua Close Jonathan C Cruz William K Dahlberg Judith Fleming Christopher L Hamblett Julie E Hamill Paul Harrington Andreas Harsch Richard Heidebrecht Bethany Hughes Joon Jung Candia M Kenific Astrid M Kral Peter T Meinke Richard E Middleton Nicole Ozerova David L Sloman Matthew G Stanton Alexander A Szewczak Sriram Tyagarajan David J Witter J Paul Secrist Thomas A Miller
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Affiliation

  • 1 Department of Drug Design and Optimization, Merck Research Laboratories, 33 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, USA. joey_methot@merck.com
Abstract

We report herein the initial exploration of novel selective HDAC1/HDAC2 inhibitors (SHI-1:2). Optimized SHI-1:2 structures exhibit enhanced intrinsic activity against HDAC1 and HDAC2, and are greater than 100-fold selective versus Other HDACs, including HDAC3. Based on the SAR of these agents and our current understanding of the HDAC active site, we postulate that the SHI-1:2 extend the existing HDAC Inhibitor pharmacophore to include an internal binding domain.

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