Small-molecule inhibitors of cathepsin L incorporating functionalized ring-fused molecular frameworks |
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Authors: | Jiangli Song Lindsay M Jones Gustavo E Chavarria Amanda K Charlton-Sevcik Adam Jantz Audra Johansen Liela Bayeh Victoria Soeung Lindsey K Snyder Shawn D Lade David J Chaplin Mary Lynn Trawick Kevin G Pinney |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Baylor University, Waco, TX 76798, USA;2. OXiGENE Inc., 701 Gateway Blvd., Suite 210, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA |
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Abstract: | Cathepsin L is a cysteine protease that is upregulated in a variety of malignant tumors and plays a significant role in cancer cell invasion and migration. It is an attractive target for the development of small-molecule inhibitors, which may prove beneficial as treatment agents to limit or arrest cancer metastasis. We have previously identified a structurally diverse series of thiosemicarbazone-based inhibitors that incorporate the benzophenone and thiochromanone molecular scaffolds. Herein we report an important extension of this work designed to explore fused aryl–alkyl ring molecular systems that feature nitrogen atom incorporation (dihydroquinoline-based) and carbon atom exclusivity (tetrahydronaphthalene-based). In addition, analogues that contain oxygen (chromanone-based), sulfur (thiochroman-based), sulfoxide, and sulfone functionalization have been prepared in order to further investigate the structure–activity relationship aspects associated with these compounds and their ability to inhibit cathepsins L and B. From this small-library of 30 compounds, five were found to be strongly inhibitory (IC50 <500 nM) against cathepsin L with the most active compound (7-bromodihydroquinoline thiosemicarbazone 48) demonstrating an IC50 = 164 nM. All of the compounds evaluated were inactive (IC50 >10,000 nM) as inhibitors of cathepsin B, thus establishing a high degree (>20-fold) of selectivity (cathepsin L vs. cathepsin B) for the most active cathepsin L inhibitors in this series. |
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