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JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 57, Issue 8, Pages 3382-3400Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jm500042s
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- National Institutes of Health, National Institute of General Medical Sciences
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, of the U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
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A structure-based drug design strategy was used to optimize a novel benzolactam series of HSP90 alpha/beta inhibitors to achieve >1000-fold selectivity versus the HSP90 endoplasmic reticulum and mitochondrial isoforms (GRP94 and TRAP!, respectively). Selective HSP90 alpha/beta inhibitors were found to be equipotent to pan-HSP90 inhibitors in promoting the clearance of mutant huntingtin protein (mHtt) in vitro, however with less cellular toxicity. Improved tolerability profiles may enable the use of HSP90 alpha/beta selective inhibitors in treating chronic neurodegenerative indications such as Huntington's disease (HD). A potent, selective, orally available HSP90 alpha/beta inhibitor was identified (compound 31) that crosses the blood-brain barrier. Compound 31 demonstrated proof of concept by successfully reducing brain Htt levels following oral dosing in rats.
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