Abstract
JNKs (c-Jun N-terminal kinases) have the potential to serve as a therapeutic target for various inflammatory, vascular, neurodegenerative, metabolic and oncological diseases. In particular, ATP-competitive JNK3 inhibitors act as neuroprotective agents. Here we introduce 1,2-diaryl-1H- benzimidazole derivatives as selective JNK3 inhibitors from among our in-house compounds and describe our elucidation of their SAR using 3D-QSAR models. A predictive CoMFA model (q2 = 0.795, r2 = 0.931) and a CoMSIA model (q2 = 0.700, r2 = 0.937) were used to describe the non-linearly combined affinity of each functional group in the inhibitors.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1639-1642 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters |
Volume | 23 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 15 Mar 2013 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by the Hanyang University Research Fund ( HY-2012-N ).
Keywords
- 1,2-Diaryl-1H-benzimidazole
- 3D-QSAR
- JNK inhibitors
- Neuroprotective agents
- Receptor-guided alignment