Department of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas PI, MS1000, Memphis, TN 38105, United States; Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, United States.
Department of Structural Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, United States.
Bioorg Med Chem. 2021 Dec 15;52:116504. doi: 10.1016/j.bmc.2021.116504. Epub 2021 Nov 12.
Pantothenate kinase (PANK) is the critical regulator of intracellular levels of coenzyme A and has emerged as an attractive target for treating neurological and metabolic disorders. This report describes the optimization, synthesis, and full structure-activity relationships of a new chemical series of pantothenate competitive PANK inhibitors. Potent drug-like molecules were obtained by optimizing a high throughput screening hit, using lipophilic ligand efficiency (LipE) derived from human PANK3 IC values to guide ligand development. X-ray crystal structures of PANK3 with index inhibitors from the optimization were determined to rationalize the emerging structure activity relationships. The analysis revealed a key bidentate hydrogen bonding interaction between pyridazine and R306' as a major contributor to the LipE gain observed in the optimization. A tractable series of PANK3 modulators with nanomolar potency, excellent LipE values, desirable physicochemical properties, and a well-defined structural binding mode was produced from this study.
泛酸激酶 (PANK) 是辅酶 A 细胞内水平的关键调节剂,已成为治疗神经和代谢紊乱的有吸引力的靶点。本报告描述了一种新型泛酸竞争 PANK 抑制剂的化学系列的优化、合成和完整的结构活性关系。通过优化高通量筛选的命中化合物,使用源自人 PANK3 IC 值的亲脂性配体效率 (LipE) 来指导配体的开发,获得了有效的药物样分子。用优化过程中的抑制剂与 PANK3 的 X 射线晶体结构来合理推断出现的结构活性关系。分析表明,嘧啶嗪和 R306'之间的关键双齿氢键相互作用是优化过程中观察到的 LipE 增益的主要贡献者。从这项研究中产生了一系列具有纳摩尔效力、优异的 LipE 值、理想的物理化学性质和明确的结构结合模式的 PANK3 调节剂。