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The receptor for insulin-like peptide 5 (INSL5), RXFP4, is a potential pharma target for treating human conditions such as constipation, anorexia, and obesity. However, since INSL5 has a complex structure of two chains and three disulfide bonds, its synthesis has proven to be extremely difficult via either chemical or recombinant approaches. Previous studies led to the engineering of a high yielding simplified INSL5 analog, named analog 13 (A13), which retains native INSL5-like activity. The focus of this study is to further simplify the structure of A13 by truncating the N-terminal residues of the B-chain. We have found that the first six residues at the N-terminus of A13 are not important for RXFP4 binding and cAMP potency. The most minimized active structure of INSL5 identified in this study is A13 B7-24 which will be an important research tool to study the physiological role of RXFP4 and a template for further modification to improve its pharmacokinetic properties.In recent years, novel bacterial topoisomerase inhibitors (NBTIs) have been developed as future antibacterials for treating multidrug-resistant bacterial infections. A series of dioxane-linked NBTIs with an amide moiety has been synthesized and evaluated. Compound 3 inhibits DNA gyrase, induces the formation of single strand breaks to bacterial DNA, and achieves potent antibacterial activity against a variety of Gram-positive pathogens, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Optimization of this series of analogues led to the discovery of a subseries of compounds (22-25) with more potent anti-MRSA activity, dual inhibition of DNA gyrase and topoisomerase IV, and the ability to induce double strand breaks through inhibition of S. aureus DNA gyrase.Staurosporine is among the most potent naturally occurring kinase inhibitors isolated to date and has served as a lead compound for numerous drug development efforts in several therapeutic areas. Birinapant Herein we report that C-H borylation chemistry provides access to analogs of staurosporine that were previously inaccessible to medicinal chemists who, in the past four decades, have prepared over 1000 semisynthetic staurosporine analogs.Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections represent a global health challenge; however, developing a vaccine for treatment of HCV infection has remained difficult as heterogeneous HCV contains distinct genotypes, and each genotype contains various subtypes and different envelope glycoproteins. Currently, there is no effective preventive vaccine for achieving global control over HCV. In our efforts to improve upon current HCV vaccines we designed a synthetically accessible adjuvant platform, wherein we synthesized 11 novel lipidated tucaresol analogues to assess their immunological potential. Birinapant Using a tucaresol-based adjuvant approach, truncated lipid-variants together with an engineered E1E2 antigen construct, namely E2ΔTM3, elicited antibody (Ab) responses that were significantly higher than tucaresol. In sum, antibody end-point titer values largely corroborated HCV neutralization data with a simplified lipidated tucaresol variant affording the highest end point titer and % neutralization. This study lays the groundwork for additional permutations in tucaresol adjuvant design, including the examination of other proteins in vaccine development.Utrophin modulation is a disease-modifying therapeutic strategy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy that would be applicable to all patient populations. To improve the suboptimal profile of ezutromid, the first-in-class clinical candidate, a second generation of utrophin modulators bearing a phosphinate ester moiety was developed. This modification significantly improved the physicochemical and ADME properties, but one of the main lead molecules was found to have dose-limiting hepatotoxicity. In this work we describe how less lipophilic analogues retained utrophin modulatory activity in a reporter gene assay, upregulated utrophin protein in dystrophic mouse muscle cells, but also had improved physicochemical and ADME properties. Notably, ClogP was found to directly correlate with pIC50 in HepG2 cells, hence leading to a potentially safer toxicological profiles in this series. Compound 21 showed a balanced profile (H2K EC50 4.17 μM, solubility 477 μM, mouse hepatocyte T1/2 > 240 min) and increased utrophin protein 1.6-fold in a Western blot assay.Ecto-5′-nucleotidase (ecto-5′-NT, CD73) inhibitors are promising drug candidates for cancer therapy. Traditional efforts used to inhibit the ecto-5′-nucleotidase have involved antibody therapy or development of small molecule inhibitors that can mimic the acidic and ionizable structure of adenosine 5′-monophosphate (AMP). Herein, we report an efficient, environment friendly route for the synthesis of non-nucleotide based small molecules, i.e., substituted spirooxindole derivatives 9a-9l and investigated their inhibitory potential on human and rat recombinant ecto-5′-nucleotidase isozymes. These attempts have resulted in the identification of compound 9f (IC50 = 0.15 ± 0.02 μM) inhibitor on h-ecto-5′-NT which showed 280-fold higher inhibition and compound 9h (IC50 ± 0.19 ± 0.03 μM) on r-ecto-5′-NT with 406-fold enhanced inhibition than reference standard sulfamic acid. Moreover, in silico studies were carried out to assess binding interactions of potent compounds within enzyme active sites and demonstrated excellent correlation with the experimental findings.Amino-quinazoline BRaf kinase inhibitor 2 was identified from a library screen as a modest inhibitor of the unfolded protein response (UPR) regulating potential anticancer target IRE1α. A combination of crystallographic and conformational considerations were used to guide structure-based attenuation of BRaf activity and optimization of IRE1α potency. Quinazoline 6-position modifications were found to provide up to 100-fold improvement in IRE1α cellular potency but were ineffective at reducing BRaf activity. A salt bridge contact with Glu651 in IRE1α was then targeted to build in selectivity over BRaf which instead possesses a histidine in this position (His539). Torsional angle analysis revealed that the quinazoline hinge binder core was ill-suited to accommodate the required conformation to effectively reach Glu651, prompting a change to the thienopyrimidine hinge binder. Resulting analogues such as 25 demonstrated good IRE1α cellular potency and imparted more than 1000-fold decrease in BRaf activity.
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