4‑Aminoquinolone Piperidine Amides: Noncovalent Inhibitors of DprE1 with Long Residence Time and Potent Antimycobacterial Activity

• Published in: Journal of medicinal chemistry Vol. 57; no. 12; pp. 5419 - 5434
• Main Authors: Naik, Maruti, Humnabadkar, Vaishali, Tantry, Subramanyam J, Panda, Manoranjan, Narayan, Ashwini, Guptha, Supreeth, Panduga, Vijender, Manjrekar, Praveena, Jena, Lalit kumar, Koushik, Krishna, Shanbhag, Gajanan, Jatheendranath, Sandesh, Manjunatha, M. R, Gorai, Gopinath, Bathula, Chandramohan, Rudrapatna, Suresh, Achar, Vijayashree, Sharma, Sreevalli, Ambady, Anisha, Hegde, Naina, Mahadevaswamy, Jyothi, Kaur, Parvinder, Sambandamurthy, Vasan K, Awasthy, Disha, Narayan, Chandan, Ravishankar, Sudha, Madhavapeddi, Prashanti, Reddy, Jitendar, Prabhakar, KR, Saralaya, Ramanatha, Chatterji, Monalisa, Whiteaker, James, McLaughlin, Bob, Chiarelli, Laurent R, Riccardi, Giovanna, Pasca, Maria Rosalia, Binda, Claudia, Neres, João, Dhar, Neeraj, Signorino-Gelo, François, McKinney, John D, Ramachandran, Vasanthi, Shandil, Radha, Tommasi, Ruben, Iyer, Pravin S, Narayanan, Shridhar, Hosagrahara, Vinayak, Kavanagh, Stefan, Dinesh, Neela, Ghorpade, Sandeep R
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: WASHINGTON American Chemical Society 26.06.2014; Amer Chemical Soc
• Subjects: Alcohol Oxidoreductases; Amides - chemistry; Amides - pharmacokinetics; Amides - pharmacology; Animals; Antitubercular Agents - chemistry; Antitubercular Agents - pharmacokinetics; Antitubercular Agents - pharmacology; Bacterial Proteins - antagonists & inhibitors; Catalytic Domain; Cell Line, Tumor; Chemistry, Medicinal; Drug Resistance, Bacterial; Genome, Bacterial; Humans; Kinetics; Life Sciences & Biomedicine; Microbial Sensitivity Tests; Molecular Docking Simulation; Mutation; Mycobacterium tuberculosis - drug effects; Mycobacterium tuberculosis - enzymology; Mycobacterium tuberculosis - genetics; Oxidoreductases - antagonists & inhibitors; Pharmacology & Pharmacy; Piperidines - chemistry; Piperidines - pharmacokinetics; Piperidines - pharmacology; Protein Binding; Quinolones - chemistry; Quinolones - pharmacokinetics; Quinolones - pharmacology; Rats, Wistar; Science & Technology; Stereoisomerism; Structure-Activity Relationship; BENZOTHIAZINONES; KILL MYCOBACTERIUM-TUBERCULOSIS
• ISSN: 0022-2623; 1520-4804
• DOI: 10.1021/jm5005978

4-Aminoquinolone piperidine amides (AQs) were identified as a novel scaffold starting from a whole cell screen, with potent cidality on Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). Evaluation of the minimum inhibitory concentrations, followed by whole genome sequencing of mutants raised against AQs, identified decaprenylphosphoryl-β-d-ribose 2′-epimerase (DprE1) as the primary target responsible for the antitubercular activity. Mass spectrometry and enzyme kinetic studies indicated that AQs are noncovalent, reversible inhibitors of DprE1 with slow on rates and long residence times of ∼100 min on the enzyme. In general, AQs have excellent leadlike properties and good in vitro secondary pharmacology profile. Although the scaffold started off as a single active compound with moderate potency from the whole cell screen, structure–activity relationship optimization of the scaffold led to compounds with potent DprE1 inhibition (IC50 < 10 nM) along with potent cellular activity (MIC = 60 nM) against Mtb.