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Variations in the C-unit of bedaquiline provides analogues with improved biology and pharmacology
Blaser, Adrian,Choi, Peter J.,Cooper, Christopher B.,Denny, William A.,Franzblau, Scott G.,Lotlikar, Manisha,Palmer, Brian D.,Sutherland, Hamish S.,Tong, Amy S. T.,Upton, Anna M.
, (2020)
Analogues of the anti-tuberculosis drug bedaquiline, bearing a 3,5-dimethoxy-4-pyridyl C-unit, retain high anti-bacterial potency yet exert less inhibition of the hERG potassium channel, in vitro, than the parent compound. Two of these analogues (TBAJ-587 and TBAJ-876) are now in preclinical development. The present study further explores structure-activity relationships across a range of related 3,5-disubstituted-4-pyridyl C-unit bedaquiline analogues of greatly varying lipophilicity (clogP from 8.16 to 1.89). This broader class shows similar properties to the 3,5-dimethoxy-4-pyridyl series, being substantially more potent in vitro and equally active in an in vivo (mouse) model than bedaquiline, while retaining a lower cardiovascular risk profile through greatly attenuated hERG inhibition.
Structure-activity relationships for analogs of the tuberculosis drug bedaquiline with the naphthalene unit replaced by bicyclic heterocycles
Sutherland, Hamish S.,Tong, Amy S.T.,Choi, Peter J.,Conole, Daniel,Blaser, Adrian,Franzblau, Scott G.,Cooper, Christopher B.,Upton, Anna M.,Lotlikar, Manisha U.,Denny, William A.,Palmer, Brian D.
, p. 1797 - 1809 (2018/02/28)
Replacing the naphthalene C-unit of the anti-tuberculosis drug bedaquiline with a range of bicyclic heterocycles of widely differing lipophilicity gave analogs with a 4.5-fold range in clogP values. The biological results for these compounds indicate on average a lower clogP limit of about 5.0 in this series for retention of potent inhibitory activity (MIC90s) against M.tb in culture. Some of the compounds also showed a significant reduction in inhibition of hERG channel potassium current compared with bedaquiline, but there was no common structural feature that distinguished these.