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Publication Abstract from PubMed

The signal transduction of acetylated histone can be processed through a recognition module, bromodomain. Several inhibitors targeting BRD4, one of the bromodomain members, are in clinical trials as anticancer drugs. Hereby, we report our efforts on discovery and optimization of a new series of 2-thiazolidinones as BRD4 inhibitors along our previous study. In this work, guided by crystal structure analysis, we reversed the sulfonamide group and identified a new binding mode. A structure-activity relationship study on this new series led to several potent BRD4 inhibitors with IC50 of about 0.05-0.1 muM in FP binding assay and GI50 of 0.1-0.3 muM in cell based assays. To complete the lead-like assessment of this series, we further checked its effects on BRD4 downstream protein c-Myc, investigated its selectivity among five different bromodomain proteins, as well as the metabolic stability test, and reinforced the utility of 2-thiazolidinone scaffold as BET bromodomain inhibitors in novel anticancer drug development.

Fragment-based drug discovery of 2-thiazolidinones as BRD4 inhibitors: 2. Structure-based optimization.,Zhao L, Wang Y, Cao D, Chen T, Wang Q, Li Y, Xu Y, Zhang N, Wang X, Chen D, Chen L, Chen YL, Xia G, Shi Z, Liu YC, Lin Y, Miao Z, Shen J, Xiong B J Med Chem. 2015 Feb 12;58(3):1281-97. doi: 10.1021/jm501504k. Epub 2015 Jan 14. PMID:25559428^[3]

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