Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2010 Jun 15;20(12):3491-4.
Haspin is a serine/threonine kinase required for completion of normal mitosis that is highly expressed during cell proliferation, including in a number of neoplasms. Consequently, it has emerged as a potential therapeutic target in oncology. A high throughput screen of approximately 140,000 compounds identified an acridine analog as a potent haspin kinase inhibitor. Profiling against a panel of 270 kinases revealed that the compound also exhibited potent inhibitory activity for DYRK2, another serine/threonine kinase. An optimization study of the acridine series revealed that the structure-activity relationship (SAR) of the acridine series for haspin and DYRK2 inhibition had many similarities. However, several structural differences were noted that allowed generation of a potent haspin kinase inhibitor (33, IC50 <60 nM) with 180-fold selectivity over DYRK2. In addition, a moderately potent DYRK2 inhibitor (41, IC50 <400 nM) with a 5.4-fold selectivity over haspin was also identified.
Haspin 是一种丝氨酸/苏氨酸激酶,对于完成正常有丝分裂是必需的,在细胞增殖过程中高度表达,包括在许多肿瘤中。因此,它已成为肿瘤学中一个有潜力的治疗靶点。对大约 140000 种化合物进行高通量筛选,发现吖啶类似物是一种有效的 Haspin 激酶抑制剂。对 270 种激酶的分析表明,该化合物对另一种丝氨酸/苏氨酸激酶 DYRK2 也表现出很强的抑制活性。对吖啶系列的优化研究表明,吖啶系列对 Haspin 和 DYRK2 的抑制的构效关系(SAR)有许多相似之处。然而,也注意到了一些结构上的差异,这使得生成一种有效的 Haspin 激酶抑制剂(33,IC50 <60 nM)成为可能,对 DYRK2 的选择性为 180 倍。此外,还鉴定出一种中度有效的 DYRK2 抑制剂(41,IC50 <400 nM),对 Haspin 的选择性为 5.4 倍。