Folkert Reck, Richard A Alm, Patrick Brassil, Joseph V Newman, Paul Ciaccio, John McNulty, Herbert Barthlow, Kosalaram Goteti, John Breen, Janelle Comita-Prevoir, Mark Cronin, David E Ehmann, Bolin Geng, Andrew Aydon Godfrey, Stewart L Fisher
Infection Innovative Medicines Unit, AstraZeneca R&D Boston , 35 Gatehouse Drive, Waltham, Massachusetts 02451, United States. folkert.reck@novartis.com
Journal of medicinal chemistry 2012 Aug 9Novel non-fluoroquinolone inhibitors of bacterial type II topoisomerases (DNA gyrase and topoisomerase IV) are of interest for the development of new antibacterial agents that are not impacted by target-mediated cross-resistance with fluoroquinolones. N-Linked amino piperidines, such as 7a, generally show potent antibacterial activity, including against quinolone-resistant isolates, but suffer from hERG inhibition (IC(50) = 44 μM for 7a) and QT prolongation in vivo. We now disclose the finding that new analogues of 7a with reduced pK(a) due to substitution with an electron-withdrawing substituent in the piperidine moiety, such as R,S-7c, retained the Gram-positive activity of 7a but showed significantly less hERG inhibition (IC(50) = 233 μM for R,S-7c). This compound exhibited moderate clearance in dog, promising efficacy against a MRSA strain in a mouse infection model, and an improved in vivo QT profile as measured in a guinea pig in vivo model. As a result of its promising activity, R,S-7c was advanced into phase I clinical studies.
Folkert Reck, Richard A Alm, Patrick Brassil, Joseph V Newman, Paul Ciaccio, John McNulty, Herbert Barthlow, Kosalaram Goteti, John Breen, Janelle Comita-Prevoir, Mark Cronin, David E Ehmann, Bolin Geng, Andrew Aydon Godfrey, Stewart L Fisher. Novel N-linked aminopiperidine inhibitors of bacterial topoisomerase type II with reduced pK(a): antibacterial agents with an improved safety profile. Journal of medicinal chemistry. 2012 Aug 9;55(15):6916-33
PMID: 22779424
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