Structure activity relationship and target prediction for ABX464 analogues in Caenorhabditis elegans
Bioorg Med Chem. 2023 Dec 3;98:117540. doi: 10.1016/j.bmc.2023.117540. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTGlobal challenges with treatment failures and/or widespread resistance in parasitic worms against commercially available anthelmintics lend impetus to the development of new anthelmintics with novel mechanism(s) of action. The free-living nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is an important model organism used for drug discovery, including the screening and structure-activity investigation of new compounds, and target deconvolution. Previously, we conducted a whole-organism phenotypic screen of the 'Pandemic Response Box' (from Medicines for Malaria Venture, MMV) and identified a hit compound, called ABX464, with activity against C. elegans and a related, parasitic nematode, Haemonchus contortus. Here, we tested a series of 44 synthesized analogues to explore the pharmacophore of activity on C. elegans and revealed five compounds whose potency was similar or greater than that of ABX464, but which were not toxic to human hepatoma (HepG2) cells. Subsequently, we employed thermal proteome profiling (TPP), protein structure prediction and an in silico-docking algorithm to predict ABX464-target candidates. Taken together, the findings from this study contribute significantly to the early-stage drug discovery of a new nematocide based on ABX464. Future work is aimed at validating the ABX464-protein interactions identified here, and at assessing ABX464 and associated analogues against a p...
Source: Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry - Category: Chemistry Authors: Harrison T Shanley Aya C Taki Nghi Nguyen Tao Wang Joseph J Byrne Ching-Seng Ang Michael G Leeming Shuai Nie Nicholas Williamson Yuanting Zheng Neil D Young Pasi K Korhonen Andreas Hofmann Tim N C Wells Abdul Jabbar Brad E Sleebs Robin B Gasser Source Type: research
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