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SUBMITTER: Kusakabe K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4025729 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

ACS medicinal chemistry letters 20120606 7
Monopolar spindle 1 (Mps1) is an attractive cancer drug target due to the important role that it plays in centrosome duplication, the spindle assembly checkpoint, and the maintenance of chromosomal stability. A design based on JNK inhibitors with an aminopyridine scaffold and subsequent modifications identified diaminopyridine 9 with an IC50 of 37 nM. The X-ray structure of 9 revealed that the Cys604 carbonyl group of the hinge region flips to form a hydrogen bond with the aniline NH group in 9. ...[more]