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SUBMITTER: Good JA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3759169 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Good James A D JA Wang Fang F Rath Oliver O Kaan Hung Yi Kristal HY Talapatra Sandeep K SK Podgórski Dawid D MacKay Simon P SP Kozielski Frank F
Journal of medicinal chemistry 20130227 5
The mitotic kinesin Eg5 is critical for the assembly of the mitotic spindle and is a promising chemotherapy target. Previously, we identified S-trityl-L-cysteine as a selective inhibitor of Eg5 and developed triphenylbutanamine analogues with improved potency, favorable drug-like properties, but moderate in vivo activity. We report here their further optimization to produce extremely potent inhibitors of Eg5 (K(i)(app) < 10 nM) with broad-spectrum activity against cancer cell lines comparable to ...[more]