Structure based design and synthesis of antiparasitic pyrrolopyrimidines targeting pteridine reductase 1

Khalaf, Abedawn I and Huggan, Judith and Suckling, Colin J and Gibson, Colin L and Stewart, Kirsten and Giordani, Federica and Barrett, Michael P. and Wong, Pui Ee and Barrack, Keri L and Hunter, William N (2014) Structure based design and synthesis of antiparasitic pyrrolopyrimidines targeting pteridine reductase 1. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 57 (15). pp. 6479-6494. ISSN 0022-2623 (https://doi.org/10.1021/jm500483b)

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Abstract

The treatment of Human African Trypanosomiasis remains a major unmet health need in sub-Saharan Africa. Approaches involving new molecular targets are important and pteridine reductase 1 (PTR1), an enzyme that reduces dihydrobiopterin in Trypanosoma spp. has been identified as a candidate target and it has been shown previously that substituted pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidines are inhibitors of PTR1 from T. brucei (J. Med. Chem. 2010, 53, 221-229). In this study, 61 new pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidines have been prepared, designed with input from new crystal structures of 23 of these compounds complexed with PTR1, and evaluated in screens for enzyme inhibitory activity against PTR1 and in vitro antitrypanosomal activity. 8 compounds were sufficiently active in both screens to take forward to in vivo evaluation. Thus although evidence for trypanocidal activity in a stage I disease model in mice was obtained, the compounds were too toxic to mice for further development.

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Khalaf, Abedawn I ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9162-7527, Huggan, Judith, Suckling, Colin J, Gibson, Colin L ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4948-1266, Stewart, Kirsten, Giordani, Federica, Barrett, Michael P., Wong, Pui Ee, Barrack, Keri L and Hunter, William N;
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