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JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 61, Issue 10, Pages 4397-4411Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.8b00080
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- EU/EFPIA Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) Joint Undertaking, K4DD [1115366]
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Residence time and more recently the association rate constant k(on) are increasingly acknowledged as important parameters for in vivo efficacy and safety of drugs. However, their broader consideration in drug development is limited by a lack of knowledge of how to optimize these parameters. In this study on a set of 176 heat shock protein 90 inhibitors, structure kinetic relationships, X-ray crystallography, and molecular dynamics simulations were combined to retrieve a concrete scheme of how to rationally slow down on-rates. We discovered that an increased ligand desolvation barrier by introducing polar substituents resulted in a significant kon decrease. The slowdown was accomplished by introducing polar moieties to those parts of the ligand that point toward a hydrophobic cavity. We validated this scheme by increasing polarity of three Hsp90 inhibitors and observed a 9-, 13-, and 45-fold slowdown of on-rates and a 9-fold prolongation in residence time. This prolongation was driven by transition state destabilization rather than ground state stabilization.
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