Sulfonamidopyrrolidinone factor Xa inhibitors: potency and selectivity enhancements via P-1 and P-4 optimization.

Sulfonamidopyrrolidinones were previously disclosed as a selective class of factor Xa (fXa) inhibitors, culminating in the identification of RPR120844 as a potent member with efficacy in vivo. Recognizing the usefulness of the central pyrrolidinone template for the presentation of ligands to the S-1 and S-4 subsites of fXa, studies to optimize the P-1 and P-4 groups were initiated. Sulfonamidopyrrolidinones containing 4-hydroxy- and 4-aminobenzamidines were discovered to be effective inhibitors of fXa. X-ray crystallographic experiments in trypsin and molecular modeling studies suggest that our inhibitors bind by insertion of the 4-hydroxybenzamidine moiety into the S-1 subsite of the fXa active site. Of the P-4 groups examined, the pyridylthienyl sulfonamides were found to confer excellent potency and selectivity especially in combination with 4-hydroxybenzamidine. Compound 20b (RPR130737) was shown to be a potent fXa inhibitor (K(i) = 2 nM) with selectivity against structurally related serine proteinases (>1000 times). Preliminary biological evaluation demonstrates the effectiveness of this inhibitor in common assays of thrombosis in vitro (e.g. activated partial thromboplastin time) and in vivo (e.g. rat FeCl(2)-induced carotid artery thrombosis model).

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Y M Choi-Sledeski, D G McGarry, D M Green, H J Mason, M R Becker, R S Davis, W R Ewing, W P Dankulich, V E Manetta, R L Morris, A P Spada, D L Cheney, K D Brown, D J Colussi, V Chu, C L Heran, S R Morgan, R G Bentley, R J Leadley, S Maignan, J P Guilloteau, C T Dunwiddie, H W Pauls. Sulfonamidopyrrolidinone factor Xa inhibitors: potency and selectivity enhancements via P-1 and P-4 optimization. Journal of medicinal chemistry. 1999 Sep 9;42(18):3572-87

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