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Blake R Bewley1, Paul K Spearing1, Rebecca L Weiner1, Vincent B Luscombe1, Xiaoyan Zhan1, Sichen Chang1, Hyekyung P Cho1, Alice L Rodriguez1, Colleen M Niswender2, P Jeffrey Conn2, Thomas M Bridges3, Darren W Engers4, Craig W Lindsley5.
Abstract
This Letter details the discovery and subsequent optimization of a novel M4 PAM scaffold based on an 6-fluoro-4-(piperidin-1-yl)quinoline-3-carbonitrile core, which represents a distinct departure from the classical M4 PAM chemotypes. Optimized compounds in this series demonstrated improved M4 PAM potency on both human and rat M4 (4 to 5-fold relative to HTS hit), and displayed attractive physicochemical and DMPK profiles, including good CNS penetration (rat brain:plasma Kp=5.3, Kp,uu=2.4; MDCK-MDR1 (P-gp) ER=1.1).Entities:
Keywords: M(4); Muscarinic acetylcholine receptor; Non-human primate (NHP); Positive allosteric modulator (PAM); Structure-activity relationship (SAR)
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Year: 2017 PMID: 28866269 PMCID: PMC5688877 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2017.08.043
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Bioorg Med Chem Lett ISSN: 0960-894X Impact factor: 2.823