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Structure-based design, synthesis and bioactivity evaluation of macrocyclic inhibitors of mutant isocitrate dehydrogenase 2 (IDH2) displaying activity in acute myeloid leukemia cells

  • Eur J Med Chem. 2020 Oct 1;203:112491. doi: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2020.112491.
Jinxin Che 1 Feng Huang 1 Mengmeng Zhang 2 Gaoya Xu 2 Bingxue Qu 1 Jian Gao 1 Binhui Chen 1 Jianjun Zhang 3 Huazhou Ying 1 Yongzhou Hu 1 Xiaobei Hu 2 Yubo Zhou 2 Anhui Gao 4 Jia Li 5 Xiaowu Dong 6
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 ZJU-ENS Joint Laboratory of Medicinal Chemistry, Zhejiang Province Key Laboratory of Anti-Cancer Drug Research, Hangzhou Institute of Innovative Medicine, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, PR China.
  • 2 National Center for Drug Screening, State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201203, PR China.
  • 3 Department of Pharmacy, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hangzhou, 310058, PR China.
  • 4 National Center for Drug Screening, State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201203, PR China. Electronic address: ahgao@simm.ac.cn.
  • 5 National Center for Drug Screening, State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201203, PR China; Open Studio for Druggability Research of Marine Natural Products, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (Qingdao), 1 Wenhai Road, Aoshanwei, Jimo, Qingdao, 266237, PR China. Electronic address: jli@simm.ac.cn.
  • 6 ZJU-ENS Joint Laboratory of Medicinal Chemistry, Zhejiang Province Key Laboratory of Anti-Cancer Drug Research, Hangzhou Institute of Innovative Medicine, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, PR China. Electronic address: dongxw@zju.edu.cn.
Abstract

The enzymes involved in the metabolic pathways in Cancer cells have been demonstrated as important therapeutic targets such as the isocitrate dehydrogenase 2 (IDH2). A series of macrocyclic derivatives was designed based on the marketed IDH2 Inhibitor AG-221 by using the conformational restriction strategy. The resulted compounds showed moderate to good inhibitory potential against different IDH2-mutant enzymes. Amongst, compound C6 exhibited better IDH2R140Q inhibitory potency than AG-221, and showed excellent activity of 2-hydroxyglutarate (2-HG) suppression in vitro and its mesylate displayed good pharmacokinetic profiles. Moreover, C6 performed strong binding mode to IDH2R140Q after computational docking and dynamic simulation, which may serve as a good starting point for further development.

Keywords

Conformational restriction; Inhibitors; Isocitrate dehydrogenase 2; Macrocyclic derivatives; Metabolic pathways.

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