- Discovery of N-(4-methoxyphenyl)-N,2-dimethylquinazolin-4-amine, a potent apoptosis inducer and efficacious anticancer agent with high blood brain barrier penetration
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As a continuation of our structure-activity relationship (SAR) studies on 4-anilinoquinazolines as potent apoptosis inducers and to identify anticancer development candidates, we explored the replacement of the 2-Cl group in our lead compound 2-chloro-N-(4-methoxyphenyl)-N-methylquinazolin-4-amine (6b, EP128265, MPI-0441138) by other functional groups. This SAR study and lead optimization resulted in the identification of N-(4-methoxyphenyl)-N,2- dimethylquinazolin-4-amine (6h, EP128495, MPC-6827) as an anticancer clinical candidate. Compound 6h was found to be a potent apoptosis inducer with EC 50 of 2 nM in our cell-based apoptosis induction assay. It also has excellent blood brain barrier penetration, and is highly efficacious in human MX-1 breast and other mouse xenograft cancer models.
- Sirisoma, Nilantha,Pervin, Azra,Zhang, Hong,Jiang, Songchun,Willardsen, J. Adam,Anderson, Mark B.,Mather, Gary,Pleiman, Christopher M.,Kasibhatla, Shailaja,Tseng, Ben,Drewe, John,Cai, Sui Xiong
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experimental part
p. 2341 - 2351
(2010/03/31)
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- Phosphodiesterase inhibitory properties of losartan. Design and synthesis of new lead compounds
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A 4-centre PDE 4 pharmacophore search has been carried out in several 3D-databases containing compounds belonging to different therapeutic areas. Losartan, an angiotensin-II antagonist, has been identified as a new lead compound for developing PDE 4 inhibitors. New families of compounds derived from losartan has been synthesized and their PDE inhibition has been measured.
- Segarra, Victor,Crespo, M. Isabel,Pujol, Ferran,Beleta, Jorge,Domenech, Teresa,Miralpeix, Montserrat,Palacios, Jose M.,Castro, Ana,Martinez, Ana
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p. 505 - 510
(2007/10/03)
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