Optimization of a Dibenzodiazepine Hit to a Potent and Selective Allosteric PAK1 Inhibitor.
Karpov, A.S., Amiri, P., Bellamacina, C., Bellance, M.H., Breitenstein, W., Daniel, D., Denay, R., Fabbro, D., Fernandez, C., Galuba, I., Guerro-Lagasse, S., Gutmann, S., Hinh, L., Jahnke, W., Klopp, J., Lai, A., Lindvall, M.K., Ma, S., Mobitz, H., Pecchi, S., Rummel, G., Shoemaker, K., Trappe, J., Voliva, C., Cowan-Jacob, S.W., Marzinzik, A.L.(2015) ACS Med Chem Lett 6: 776-781
- PubMed: 26191365 
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmedchemlett.5b00102
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4ZJI, 4ZJJ, 4ZLO - PubMed Abstract: 
The discovery of inhibitors targeting novel allosteric kinase sites is very challenging. Such compounds, however, once identified could offer exquisite levels of selectivity across the kinome. Herein we report our structure-based optimization strategy of a dibenzodiazepine hit 1, discovered in a fragment-based screen, yielding highly potent and selective inhibitors of PAK1 such as 2 and 3 ...