Design and synthesis of lactam-thiophene carboxylic acids as potent hepatitis C virus polymerase inhibitors.
Barnes-Seeman, D., Boiselle, C., Capacci-Daniel, C., Chopra, R., Hoffmaster, K., Jones, C.T., Kato, M., Lin, K., Ma, S., Pan, G., Shu, L., Wang, J., Whiteman, L., Xu, M., Zheng, R., Fu, J.(2014) Bioorg Med Chem Lett 24: 3979-3985
- PubMed: 24986660 
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bmcl.2014.06.031
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
4TLR, 4TN2 - PubMed Abstract: 
Herein we report the successful incorporation of a lactam as an amide replacement in the design of hepatitis C virus NS5B Site II thiophene carboxylic acid inhibitors. Optimizing potency in a replicon assay and minimizing potential risk for CYP3A4 induction led to the discovery of inhibitor 22a ...