Discovery, synthesis and biological evaluation of isoquinolones as novel and highly selective JNK inhibitors (2)
Asano, Y., Kitamura, S., Ohra, T., Itoh, F., Kajino, M., Tamura, T., Kaneko, M., Ikeda, S., Igata, H., Kawamoto, T., Sogabe, S., Matsumoto, S., Tanaka, T., Yamaguchi, M., Kimura, H., Fukumoto, S.(2008) Bioorg Med Chem 16: 4699-4714
- PubMed: 18313930 
- DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2008.02.028
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2ZDT - PubMed Abstract: 
3-Metoxycarbonyl isoquinolone derivative 1 has been identified as a potent JNK inhibitor and significantly inhibited cardiac hypertrophy in a rat pressure-overload model. Herein, a series of isoquinolones with an imidazolylmethyl or a pyrazolylmethyl group at the 2-position were designed based on X-ray crystallographic analysis of the complex between the isoquinolone compound and JNK3, as wells as the relationship between compound lipophilicity (logD) and activity in a cell-based assay ...