Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Rationally Designed Covalent BCL6 Inhibitor That Targets a Tyrosine Residue in the Homodimer Interface

Mingxing Teng, Scott B. Ficarro, Hojong Yoon, Jianwei Che, Jing Zhou, Eric S. Fischer, Jarrod A. Marto, Tinghu Zhang, and Nathanael S. Gray

ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters Article 2020
DOI: 10.1021/acsmedchemlett.0c00111

B-cell lymphoma 6 (BCL6) is a transcriptional repressor frequently deregulated in lymphoid malignancies. BCL6 engages with number of corepressors, and these protein–protein interactions are being explored as a strategy for drug development. Here, we report the development of an irreversible BCL6 inhibitor TMX-2164 that uses a sulfonyl fluoride to covalently react with the hydroxyl group of Tyrosine 58 located in the lateral groove. TMX-2164 exhibits significantly improved inhibitory activity compared to that of its reversible parental compound and displays sustained target engagement and antiproliferative activity in cells. TMX-2164 therefore represents an example of a tyrosine-directed covalent inhibitor of BCL6 which demonstrates advantages relative to reversible targeting.

Discovery of IHMT-15130 as a Highly Potent Irreversible BMX Inhibitor for the Treatment of Myocardial Hypertrophy and Remodeling

Shuang Qi, Jiangyan Cao, Ting Wu, Chenliang Shi, Junjie Wang, Beilei Wang, Ziping Qi, Hong Wu, Yun Wu, Aoli Wang, Jing Liu, Wenchao Wang, an...