Lead Optimization of a 4-Aminopyridine Benzamide Scaffold To Identify Potent, Selective, and Orally Bioavailable TYK2 Inhibitors.
Liang, J., van Abbema, A., Balazs, M., Barrett, K., Berezhkovsky, L., Blair, W., Chang, C., Delarosa, D., Devoss, J., Driscoll, J., Eigenbrot, C., Ghilardi, N., Gibbons, P., Halladay, J., Johnson, A., Kohli, P.B., Lai, Y., Liu, Y., Lyssikatos, J., Mantik, P., Menghrajani, K., Murray, J., Peng, I., Sambrone, A., Shia, S., Shin, Y., Smith, J., Sohn, S., Tsui, V., Ultsch, M., Wu, L.C., Xiao, Y., Yang, W., Young, J., Zhang, B., Zhu, B.Y., Magnuson, S.(2013) J Med Chem 56: 4521-4536
- PubMed: 23668484 
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/jm400266t
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4GII, 4GJ2, 4GJ3 - PubMed Abstract: 
Herein we report our lead optimization effort to identify potent, selective, and orally bioavailable TYK2 inhibitors, starting with lead molecule 3. We used structure-based design to discover 2,6-dichloro-4-cyanophenyl and (1R,2R)-2-fluorocyclopropylamide modifications, each of which exhibited improved TYK2 potency and JAK1 and JAK2 selectivity relative to 3 ...