
{"id":13446,"date":"2022-11-30T11:12:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T11:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sygnaturediscovery.com\/?post_type=journal-paper&#038;p=13446"},"modified":"2026-01-30T11:21:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T11:21:26","slug":"discovery-and-optimization-of-potent-and-orally-available-ctp-synthetase-inhibitors-for-use-in-treatment-of-diseases-driven-by-aberrant-immune-cell-proliferation","status":"publish","type":"journal-paper","link":"https:\/\/www.sygnaturediscovery.com\/fr\/journal-paper\/discovery-and-optimization-of-potent-and-orally-available-ctp-synthetase-inhibitors-for-use-in-treatment-of-diseases-driven-by-aberrant-immune-cell-proliferation\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovery and Optimization of Potent and Orally Available CTP Synthetase Inhibitors for Use in Treatment of Diseases Driven by Aberrant Immune Cell Proliferation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Andrew Novak, David Laughton, Rebecca Lane, Emma Blackham, Jennifer Thomas, Elli Chatzopoulou, Joseph Wrigglesworth, Abdul Quddus, Saleh Ahmed, David Cousin, Lorna Duffy, Nathalie Dubois, John Unitt, Katalin Orban, Edward Browne, Michelle Ward, David Mycock, Maria Ieva, Nicholas Bland<\/strong>, Pascal George, Timothy Bourne, H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Asnagli, <strong>Louise Birchm, Geraint Jones<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Herein, we report the discovery of a first-in-class chemotype 2-(alkylsulfonamido)thiazol-4-yl)acetamides that act as pan-selective inhibitors of cytidine 5\u2032-triphosphate synthetase (CTPS1\/2), critical enzymes in the&nbsp;<em>de novo<\/em>&nbsp;pyrimidine synthesis pathway. Weak inhibitors identified from a high-throughput screening of 240K compounds have been optimized to a potent, orally active agent, compound&nbsp;<strong>27<\/strong>, which has shown significant pharmacological responses at 10 mg\/kg dose BID in a well-established animal model of inflammation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ref: <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acs.jmedchem.2c01446\">J Med Chem 2022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","category":[681,682,679,713],"resource_tag":[],"class_list":["post-13446","journal-paper","type-journal-paper","status-publish","hentry","category-bioscience","category-chemistry","category-computer-aided-drug-design","category-medicinal-chemistry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Discovery and Optimization of Potent and Orally Available CTP Synthetase Inhibitors for Use in Treatment of Diseases Driven by Aberrant Immune Cell Proliferation - 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