Design and synthesis of fungal-selective resorcylate aminopyrazole Hsp90 inhibitors

DS Huang, EV LeBlanc… - Journal of medicinal …, 2019 - ACS Publications
DS Huang, EV LeBlanc, T Shekhar-Guturja, N Robbins, DJ Krysan, J Pizarro, L Whitesell…
Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2019ACS Publications
The molecular chaperone Hsp90, essential in all eukaryotes, plays a multifaceted role in
promoting survival, virulence, and drug resistance across diverse pathogenic fungal
species. The chaperone is also critically important, however, to the pathogen's human host,
preventing the use of known clinical Hsp90 inhibitors in antifungal applications due to
concomitant host toxicity issues. With the goal of developing Hsp90 inhibitors with
acceptable therapeutic indices for the treatment of invasive fungal infections, we initiated a …
The molecular chaperone Hsp90, essential in all eukaryotes, plays a multifaceted role in promoting survival, virulence, and drug resistance across diverse pathogenic fungal species. The chaperone is also critically important, however, to the pathogen’s human host, preventing the use of known clinical Hsp90 inhibitors in antifungal applications due to concomitant host toxicity issues. With the goal of developing Hsp90 inhibitors with acceptable therapeutic indices for the treatment of invasive fungal infections, we initiated a program to design and synthesize potent inhibitors with selective activity against fungal Hsp90 isoforms over their human counterparts. Building on our previously reported derivatization of resorcylate natural products to produce fungal-selective compounds, we have developed a series of synthetic aminopyrazole-substituted resorcylate amides with broad, potent, and fungal-selective Hsp90 inhibitory activity. Herein we describe the synthesis of this series, as well as biochemical structure–activity relationships driving selectivity for the Hsp90 isoforms expressed by Cryptococcus neoformans and Candida albicans, two pathogenic fungi of major clinical importance.
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