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Discovery of β-Arrestin Biased, Orally Bioavailable, and CNS Penetrant Neurotensin Receptor 1 (NTR1) Allosteric Modulators

  • Anthony B. Pinkerton
  • , Satyamaheshwar Peddibhotla
  • , Fusayo Yamamoto
  • , Lauren M. Slosky
  • , Yushi Bai
  • , Patrick Maloney
  • , Paul Hershberger
  • , Michael P. Hedrick
  • , Bekhi Falter
  • , Robert J. Ardecky
  • , Layton H. Smith
  • , Thomas D.Y. Chung
  • , Michael R. Jackson
  • , Marc G. Caron
  • , Lawrence S. Barak

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Abstract

Neurotensin receptor 1 (NTR1) is a G protein coupled receptor that is widely expressed throughout the central nervous system where it acts as a neuromodulator. Neurotensin receptors have been implicated in a wide variety of CNS disorders, but despite extensive efforts to develop small molecule ligands there are few reports of such compounds. Herein we describe the optimization of a quinazoline based lead to give 18 (SBI-553), a potent and brain penetrant NTR1 allosteric modulator.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)8357-8363
Number of pages7
JournalJournal of medicinal chemistry
Volume62
Issue number17
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 12 2019
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was supported by National Institutes of Health grants R21/33 DA038019 to A.B.P. and 5P30DA029925 to M.G.C. and L.S.B. We acknowledge Peter Wilson at Almac, Craigavon, United Kingdom, for scale up work on 18 , WuXi, Shanghai, China, for measurements of the PK parameters, Eurofins, Taipei, Taiwan, for the binding studies in Figure 3, and Alexander Braddock and Emmanuel Theodorakis at the University of California, San Diego, for assistance with measuring optical rotations.

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© 2019 American Chemical Society.

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