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Structure-Guided Design of a Series of MCL-1 Inhibitors with High Affinity and Selectivity

Bruncko, Milan, Wang, Le, Sheppard, George S., Phillips, Darren C., Tahir, Stephen K., Xue, John, Erickson, Scott, Fidanze, Steve +22 more·2015·Journal of Medicinal Chemistry

Abstract

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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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.
Venue
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
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
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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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