Structure-Guided Design of a Series of MCL-1 Inhibitors with High Affinity and Selectivity
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Myeloid cell leukemia 1 (MCL-1) is a BCL-2 family protein that has been implicated in the progression and survival of multiple tumor types. Herein we report a series of MCL-1 inhibitors that emanated from a high throughput screening (HTS) hit and progressed via iterative cycles of structure-guided design. Advanced compounds from this series exhibited subnanomolar affinity for MCL-1 and excellent selectivity over other BCL-2 family proteins as well as multiple kinases and GPCRs. In a MCL-1 dependent human tumor cell line, administration of compound 30b rapidly induced caspase activation with associated loss in cell viability. The small molecules described herein thus comprise effective tools for studying MCL-1 biology.
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Mcl-1 is a crucial anti-apoptotic member of Bcl-2 family that contributes significantly to development of various human cancers.
“Myeloid cell leukemia-1 (Mcl-1) is a crucial anti-apoptotic member of the Bcl-2 protein family that contributes significantly to the development of various human cancers.”
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- Authors
- Bruncko, M., Wang, L., Sheppard, G. S., Phillips, D. C., Tahir, S. K., Xue, J., Erickson, S., Fidanze, S., Fry, E., Hasvold, L., Jenkins, G. J., Jin, S., Judge, R. A., Kovar, P. J., Madar, D., Nimmer, P., Park, C., Petros, A. M., Rosenberg, S. H., Smith, M. L., Song, X., Sun, C., Tao, Z.-F., Wang, X., Xiao, Y., Zhang, H., Tse, C., Leverson, J. D., Elmore, S. W., & Souers, A. J.
- Affiliations
- AbbVie (United States) (US)
- AbbVie Inc., 1 North Waukegan Road, North Chicago, Illinois 60064, United States
- Corresponding author
- Souers, Andrew J.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Published
- 2015-02-26
- Volume
- 58
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 2180-2194
- ISSN
- 0022-2623 (ISSN-L)
- 1520-4804
- OpenAlex
- W2326290971
- Cited by
- 164
- References
- 40
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 17 · 2020: 16 · 2019: 18 · 2018: 11 · 2017: 21 · 2016: 25 · 2015: 17
- FWCI
- 11.80
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Medicinal Chemistry (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- AbbVie
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Cell death mechanisms and regulation
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computational Theory and Mathematics › Computational Drug Discovery Methods
- Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Organic Chemistry › Synthesis and biological activity
- Keywords
- Mcl-1 inhibitors, Bcl-2 family proteins, structure-guided design, high-throughput screening hits, caspase activation, apoptosis, anticancer drug design
- MeSH terms
- Antineoplastic Agents, Cell Survival, Humans, Multiple Myeloma, Pancreatic Neoplasms, Protein Binding, Structure-Activity Relationship, Tumor Cells, Cultured, Drug Design, Molecular Structure, Databases, Factual, Apoptosis, Crystallography, X-Ray, High-Throughput Screening Assays, Molecular Docking Simulation, Myeloid Cell Leukemia Sequence 1 Protein
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