PMID: 21458257

Authors:

Dai C, Li D, Popovici-Muller J, Zhao L, Girijavallabhan VM, Rosner KE, Lavey BJ, Rizvi R, Shankar BB, Wong MK, Guo Z, Orth P, Strickland CO, Sun J, Niu X, Chen S, Kozlowski JA, Lundell DJ, Piwinski JJ, Shih NY, Siddiqui MA

Title:

2-(2-Aminothiazol-4-yl)pyrrolidine-based tartrate diamides as potent, selective and orally bioavailable TACE inhibitors.

Journal:

Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2011 Jan 6.

Abstract:

TNF-alpha converting enzyme (TACE) inhibitors are promising agents to treat inflammatory disorders and cancer. We have investigated novel tartrate diamide TACE inhibitors where the tartrate core binds to zinc in a unique tridentate fashion. Incorporating (R)-2-(2-N-alkylaminothiazol-4-yl)pyrrolidines into the left hand side amide of the tartrate scaffold led to the discovery of potent and selective TACE inhibitors, some of which exhibited good rat oral bioavailability.