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Synthesis and Profiling of a Novel Potent Selective Inhibitor of CHK1 Kinase Possessing Unusual N-trifluoromethylpyrazole Pharmacophore Resistant to Metabolic N-dealkylation

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SAMADDER Pounami SUCHÁNKOVÁ Tereza HYLSE Ondřej KHIRSARIYA PrashantKumar NIKULENKOV Fedor DRÁPELA Stanislav STRAKOVÁ Nicol VAŇHARA Petr VAŠÍČKOVÁ Kateřina KOLÁŘOVÁ Hana BINÓ Lucia BITTOVÁ Miroslava OVESNÁ Petra KOLLÁR Peter FEDR Radek EŠNER Milan JAROŠ Josef HAMPL Aleš KREJČÍ Lumír PARUCH Kamil SOUČEK Karel

Year of publication 2017
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Molecular Cancer Therapeutics
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Faculty of Medicine

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Web http://mct.aacrjournals.org/content/16/9/1831.full#ref-list-1
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1158/1535-7163.MCT-17-0018
Field Oncology and hematology
Keywords Synthesis and Profiling of a Novel Potent Selective Inhibitor
Description Checkpoint-mediated dependency of tumor cells can be deployed to selectively kill them without substantial toxicity to normal cells. Specifically, loss of CHK1, a serine threonine kinase involved in the surveillance of the G2–M checkpoint in the presence of replication stress inflicted by DNA-damaging drugs, has been reported to dramatically influence the viability of tumor cells. CHK10s pivotal role in maintaining genomic stability offers attractive opportunity for increasing the selectivity, effectivity, and reduced toxicity of chemotherapy. Some recently identified CHK1 inhibitors entered clinical trials in combination with DNA antimetabolites. Herein, we report synthesis and profiling of MU380, a nontrivial analogue of clinically profiled compound SCH900776 possessing the highly unusual N-trifluoromethylpyrazole motif, which was envisioned not to undergo metabolic oxidative dealkylation and thereby provide greater robustness to the compound. MU380 is a selective and potent inhibitor of CHK1 which sensitizes a variety of tumor cell lines to hydroxyurea or gemcitabine up to 10 times. MU380 shows extended inhibitory effects in cells, and unlike SCH900776, does not undergo in vivo N-dealkylation to the significantly less selective metabolite. Compared with SCH900776, MU380 in combination with GEM causes higher accumulation of DNA damage in tumor cells and subsequent enhanced cell death, and is more efficacious in the A2780 xenograft mouse model. Overall, MU380 represents a novel state-of-the-art CHK1 inhibitor with high potency, selectivity, and improved metabolic robustness to oxidative N-dealkylation.
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