1. Discovery of mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) kinase inhibitor CC-223.
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Mortensen DS, Perrin-Ninkovic SM, Shevlin G, Zhao J, Packard G, Bahmanyar S, Correa M, Elsner J, Harris R, Lee BG, Papa P, Parnes JS, Riggs JR, Sapienza J, Tehrani L, Whitefield B, Apuy J, Bisonette RR, Gamez JC, Hickman M, Khambatta G, Leisten J, Peng SX, Richardson SJ, Cathers BE, Canan SS, Moghaddam MF, Raymon HK, Worland P, Narla RK, Fultz KE, and Sankar S
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- Animals, Antineoplastic Agents chemical synthesis, Humans, Male, Models, Molecular, Molecular Structure, Protein Kinase Inhibitors chemical synthesis, Pyrazines chemical synthesis, Rats, Structure-Activity Relationship, Tumor Cells, Cultured, Antineoplastic Agents pharmacology, Drug Discovery, Phosphoinositide-3 Kinase Inhibitors, Prostatic Neoplasms drug therapy, Protein Kinase Inhibitors pharmacology, Pyrazines pharmacology, Signal Transduction drug effects, TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases antagonists & inhibitors
- Abstract
We report here the synthesis and structure-activity relationship (SAR) of a novel series of mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) kinase inhibitors. A series of 4,6- or 1,7-disubstituted-3,4-dihydropyrazino[2,3-b]pyrazine-2(1H)-ones were optimized for in vivo efficacy. These efforts resulted in the identification of compounds with excellent mTOR kinase inhibitory potency, with exquisite kinase selectivity over the related lipid kinase PI3K. The improved PK properties of this series allowed for exploration of in vivo efficacy and ultimately the selection of CC-223 for clinical development.
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- 2015
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