170170-13-5Relevant articles and documents
Targeting species specific amino acid residues: Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of 6-substituted pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidines as dihydrofolate reductase inhibitors and potential anti-opportunistic infection agents
Shah, Khushbu,Lin, Xin,Queener, Sherry F.,Cody, Vivian,Pace, Jim,Gangjee, Aleem
, p. 2640 - 2650 (2018)
To combine the potency of trimetrexate (TMQ) or piritrexim (PTX) with the species selectivity of trimethoprim (TMP), target based design was carried out with the X-ray crystal structure of human dihydrofolate reductase (hDHFR) and the homology model of Pneumocystis jirovecii DHFR (pjDHFR). Using variation of amino acids such as Met33/Phe31 (in pjDHFR/hDHFR) that affect the binding of inhibitors due to their distinct positive or negative steric effect at the active binding site of the inhibitor, we designed a series of substituted-pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidines. The best analogs displayed better potency (IC50) than PTX and high selectivity for pjDHFR versus hDHFR, with 4 exhibiting a selectivity for pjDHFR of 24-fold.
Analogues of 4-[(7-Bromo-2-methyl-4-oxo-3 H -quinazolin-6-yl)methylprop-2- ynylamino]- N -(3-pyridylmethyl)benzamide (CB-30865) as potent inhibitors of nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase (Nampt)
Lockman, Jeffrey W.,Murphy, Brett R.,Zigar, Daniel F.,Judd, Weston R.,Slattum, Paul M.,Gao, Zhong-Hua,Ostanin, Kirill,Green, Jeremy,McKinnon, Rena,Terry-Lorenzo, Ryan T.,Fleischer, Tracey C.,Boniface, J. Jay,Shenderovich, Mark,Willardsen, J. Adam
experimental part, p. 8734 - 8746 (2011/02/23)
We have shown previously that the target of the potent cytotoxic agent 4-[(7-bromo-2-methyl-4-oxo-3H-quinazolin-6-yl)methyl-prop-2-ynylamino] -N-(3-pyridylmethyl)benzamide (CB38065, 1) is nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase (Nampt). With its cellular target known we sought to optimize the biochemical and cellular Nampt activity of 1 as well as its cytotoxicity. It was found that a 3-pyridylmethylamide substituent in the A region was critical to cellular Nampt activity and cytotoxicity, although other aromatic substitution did yield compounds with submicromolar enzymatic inhibition. Small unsaturated groups worked best in the D-region of the molecule, with 3,3-dimethylallyl providing optimal potency. The E region required a quinazolin-4-one or 1,2,3-benzotriazin-4-one group for activity, and many substituents were tolerated at C2 of the quinazolin-4-one. The best compounds showed subnanomolar inhibition of Nampt and low nanomolar cytotoxicity in cellular assays.
A one-step ring transformation/ring annulation approach to pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidines. A new synthesis of the potent DHFR inhibitor TNP-351
Taylor,Patel,Jun
, p. 6684 - 6687 (2007/10/03)
Condensation of amidines with 2-amino-3-cyanofurans gives 2-substituted-4-aminopyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidines by a ring-opening, ring-recyclization sequence of reactions through which the starting furan 2-amino nitrogen becomes the pyrrole nitrogen of the final product and one of the amidine nitrogens becomes N-1 of the fused pyrimidine ring. 2,4-Diamino-5-[2-(4-carbethoxyphenyl)ethyl]pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidine, a key intermediate in the synthesis of the DHFR inhibitor TNP-351, has been prepared in one step by reaction of ethyl 4-[2-(2-amino-3-cyanofuran-4-yl)ethyl]benzoate with guanidine.