期刊
JOURNAL OF COMPUTER-AIDED MOLECULAR DESIGN
卷 29, 期 1, 页码 89-100出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10822-014-9807-2
关键词
Aurora kinase inhibitor; Fragment-like hit; Structure-based virtual screening; Ligand efficiency; Tautomer; Molecular obesity
资金
- Science and Engineering Research Board [SR/FT/LS-64/2011]
- Department of Biotechnology, India [DBT-JRF/2012-13/80]
- National Health Research Institutes
- National Science Council, Taiwan [NSC-101-2325-B-400-003, NSC-101-2113-M-400-002-MY4, NSC-102-2113-M-400-003-MY3]
Furanopyrimidine 1 (IC50 = 273 nM, LE = 0.36, LELP = 10.28) was recently identified by high-throughput screening (HTS) of an in-house library (125,000 compounds) as an Aurora kinase inhibitor. Structure-based hit optimization resulted in lead molecules with in vivo efficacy in a mouse tumour xenograft model, but no oral bioavailability. This is attributed to molecular obesity, a common problem during hit to lead evolution during which degradation of important molecular properties such as molecular weight (MW) and lipophilicity occurs. This could be effectively tackled by the right choice of hit compounds for optimization. In this regard, ligand efficiency (LE) and ligand efficiency dependent lipophilicity (LELP) indices are more often used to choose fragment-like hits for optimization. To identify hits with appropriate LE, we used a MW cut-off < 250, and pyrazole structure to filter HTS library. Next, structure-based virtual screening using software (Libdock and Glide) in the Aurora A crystal structure (PDB ID: 3E5A) was carried out, and the top scoring 18 compounds tested for Aurora A enzyme inhibition. This resulted in the identification of a novel tetrahydro-pyrazolo-isoquinoline hit 7 (IC50 = 852 nM, LE = 0.44, LELP = 8.36) with fragment-like properties suitable for further hit optimization. Moreover, hit 7 was found to be selective for Aurora A (Aurora B IC50 = 35,150 nM) and the possible reasons for selectivity investigated by docking two tautomeric forms (2H- and 3H-pyrazole) of 7 in Auroras A and B (PDB ID: 4AF3) crystal structures. This docking study shows that the major 3H-pyrazole tautomer of 7 binds in Aurora A stronger than in Aurora B. A series of in silico filters were applied to HTS library compounds, followed by biochemical testing identified aurora A selective hit 7 with fragment-like characters suitable for further development.
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