Synthesis and biological evaluation of benzenesulfonamide-substituted 4-(6-alkylpyridin-2-yl)-5-(quinoxalin-6-yl)imidazoles as transforming growth factor-β type 1 receptor kinase inhibitors

Dae Kee Kim, Sun Hee Jung, Ho Soon Lee, Purushottam M. Dewang

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Abstract

A series of benzenesulfonamide-substituted 4-(6-alkylpyridin-2-yl)-5-(quinoxalin-6-yl)imidazoles (15a-l) have been synthesized and evaluated for their ALK5 inhibitory activity in cell-based luciferase reporter assays. Among them, 4-[5-(6-methylpyridin-2-yl)-4-(quinoxalin-6-yl)-1H-imidazol-2-ylmethyl]b enzenesulfonamide (15b) and 4-[5-(6-ethylpyridin-2-yl)-4-(quinoxalin-6-yl)-1H-imidazol-2-ylmethyl]be nzenesulfonamide (15c) showed more than 90% inhibition at 0.5 μM in a luciferase reporter assay using HaCaT cells transiently transfected with p3TP-luc reporter construct, but inhibited p38α MAP kinase activity only 11 and 8% at a concentration of 10 μM, respectively.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)568-576
Number of pages9
JournalEuropean Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
Volume44
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 2009

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Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by the grants from Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy, Korea (M1-0310-43-0001 and M1-0310-43-0002).

Keywords

  • ALK5 inhibitors
  • Cancer
  • Fibrosis
  • Transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β)

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