| Literature DB >> 24900812 |
Kevin X Chen1, Srikanth Venkatraman1, Gopinadhan N Anilkumar1, Qingbei Zeng1, Charles A Lesburg1, Bancha Vibulbhan1, Francisco Velazquez1, Tin-Yau Chan1, Frank Bennet1, Yueheng Jiang1, Patrick Pinto1, Yuhua Huang1, Oleg Selyutin1, Sony Agrawal1, Hsueh-Cheng Huang1, Cheng Li1, Kuo-Chi Cheng1, Neng-Yang Shih1, Joseph A Kozlowski1, Stuart B Rosenblum1, F George Njoroge1.
Abstract
Starting from indole-based hepatitis C virus (HCV) NS5B polymerase inhibitor lead compound 1, structure modifications were performed at multiple indole substituents to improve potency and pharmacokinetic (PK) properties. Bicyclic quinazolinone was found to be the best substituent at indole nitrogen, while 4,5-furanylindole was identified as the best core. Compound 11 demonstrated excellent potency. Its C2 N,N-dimethylaminoethyl ester prodrug 12 (SCH 900188) demonstrated significant improvement in PK and was selected as the development candidate.Entities:
Keywords: HCV; NS5B polymerase; hepatitis C virus; polymerase inhibitor; prodrug
Year: 2013 PMID: 24900812 PMCID: PMC4027611 DOI: 10.1021/ml400192w
Source DB: PubMed Journal: ACS Med Chem Lett ISSN: 1948-5875 Impact factor: 4.345