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. 2022 Nov 1:75:128951.
doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2022.128951. Epub 2022 Aug 27.

The discovery of BMS-737 as a potent, CYP17 lyase-selective inhibitor for the treatment of castration-resistant prostate cancer

Chetan Padmakar Darne  1 , Upender Velaparthi  2 , Mark Saulnier  1 , David Frennesson  1 , Peiying Liu  1 , Audris Huang  1 , John Tokarski  1 , Aberra Fura  1 , Thomas Spires  1 , John Newitt  1 , Vanessa M Spires  1 , Mary T Obermeier  1 , Paul A Elzinga  1 , Marco M Gottardis  1 , Lata Jayaraman  1 , Gregory D Vite  1 , Aaron Balog  1
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The discovery of BMS-737 as a potent, CYP17 lyase-selective inhibitor for the treatment of castration-resistant prostate cancer

Chetan Padmakar Darne et al. Bioorg Med Chem Lett. .

Abstract

We report herein, the discovery of BMS-737 (compound 33) as a potent, non-steroidal, reversible small molecule inhibitor demonstrating 11-fold selectivity for CYP17 lyase over CYP17 hydroxylase, as well as a clean xenobiotic CYP profile for the treatment of castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). Extensive SAR studies on the initial lead 1 at three different regions of the molecule resulted in the identification of BMS-737, which demonstrated a robust 83% lowering of testosterone without any significant perturbation of the mineralocorticoid and glucocorticoid levels in cynomologous monkeys in a 1-day PK/PD study.

Keywords: Aza-indazole; CYP11B1; CYP17A1; CYP1A2; CYP21A2; Castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC); Glucocorticoids; Hydroxylase; Lyase; Mineralocorticoids; abiraterone acetate (AA).

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Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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