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JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 59, Issue 17, Pages 7950-7962Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.6b00752
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- NIH [AI090662]
- Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV)
- American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities (ALSAC)
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Phenotypic whole-cell screening in erythrocytic cocultures of Plasmodium falciparum identified a series of dihydroisoquinolones that possessed potent antimalarial activity against multiple resistant strains of P. falciparum in vitro and show no cytotoxicity to mammalian cells. Systematic structure activity studies revealed relationships between potency and modifications at N-2, C-3, and C-4. Careful structure property relationship studies, coupled with studies of metabolism, addressed the poor aqueous solubility and metabolic vulnerability, as well as potential toxicological effects, inherent in the more potent primary screening hits such as 10b. Analogues 13h and 13i, with structural modifications at each site, were shown to possess excellent antimalarial activity in vivo. The (+)-(35,4S) enantiomer of 13i and similar analogues were identified as the more potent. On the basis of these studies, we have selected (+)-13i for further study as a preclinical candidate.
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