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Discovery and optimization of novel piperazines as potent inhibitors of fatty acid synthase (FASN)

  • Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2019 Apr 15;29(8):1001-1006. doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2019.02.012.
Matthew W Martin 1 David R Lancia Jr 2 Hongbin Li 3 Shawn E R Schiller 2 Angela V Toms 2 Zhongguo Wang 2 Kenneth W Bair 2 Jennifer Castro 2 Shawn Fessler 2 Deepali Gotur 2 Stephen E Hubbs 3 Goss S Kauffman 3 Mark Kershaw 3 George P Luke 3 Crystal McKinnon 2 Lili Yao 3 Wei Lu 2 David S Millan 2
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Affiliations

  • 1 FORMA Therapeutics, 500 Arsenal Street, Suite 100, Watertown, MA 02472, USA. Electronic address: mmartin@formatherapeutics.com.
  • 2 FORMA Therapeutics, 500 Arsenal Street, Suite 100, Watertown, MA 02472, USA.
  • 3 FORMA Therapeutics, 35 Northeast Industrial Road, Branford, CT 06405, USA.
Abstract

The discovery, structure-activity relationships, and optimization of a novel class of fatty acid synthase (FASN) inhibitors is reported. High throughput screening identified a series of substituted piperazines with structural features that enable interactions with many of the potency-driving regions of the FASN KR domain binding site. Derived from this series was FT113, a compound with potent biochemical and cellular activity, which translated into excellent activity in in vivo models.

Keywords

FASN; Fatty acid synthase; Oncology; Piperazines; de novo lipogenesis.

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