Ting-Yueh Tsai, Teng-Kuang Yeh, Xin Chen, Tsu Hsu, Yu-Chen Jao, Chih-Hsiang Huang, Jen-Shin Song, Yu-Chen Huang, Chia-Hui Chien, Jing-Huai Chiu, Shih-Chieh Yen, Hung-Kuan Tang, Yu-Sheng Chao, Weir-Torn Jiaang
Division of Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Research, National Health Research Institutes, No. 35, Keyan Road, Zhunan Town, Miaoli Country 350, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Journal of medicinal chemistry 2010 Sep 23Fibroblast activation protein (FAP) belongs to the prolyl peptidase family. FAP inhibition is expected to become a new antitumor target. Most known FAP inhibitors often resemble the dipeptide cleavage products, with a boroproline at the P1 site; however, these inhibitors also inhibit DPP-IV, DPP-II, DPP8, and DPP9. Potent and selective FAP inhibitor is needed in evaluating that FAP as a therapeutic target. Therefore, it is important to develop selective FAP inhibitors for the use of target validation. To achieve this, optimization of the nonselective DPP-IV inhibitor 8 led to the discovery of a new class of substituted 4-carboxymethylpyroglutamic acid diamides as FAP inhibitors. SAR studies resulted in a number of FAP inhibitors having IC(50) of <100 nM with excellent selectivity over DPP-IV, DPP-II, DPP8, and DPP9 (IC(50) > 100 μM). Compounds 18a, 18b, and 19 are the only known potent and selective FAP inhibitors, which prompts us to further study the physiological role of FAP.
Ting-Yueh Tsai, Teng-Kuang Yeh, Xin Chen, Tsu Hsu, Yu-Chen Jao, Chih-Hsiang Huang, Jen-Shin Song, Yu-Chen Huang, Chia-Hui Chien, Jing-Huai Chiu, Shih-Chieh Yen, Hung-Kuan Tang, Yu-Sheng Chao, Weir-Torn Jiaang. Substituted 4-carboxymethylpyroglutamic acid diamides as potent and selective inhibitors of fibroblast activation protein. Journal of medicinal chemistry. 2010 Sep 23;53(18):6572-83
PMID: 20718420
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