In 2018,Journal of Medicinal Chemistry included an article by Li, Daqiang; Zhang, Xiaotuan; Ma, Xiaodong; Xu, Lei; Yu, Jianjun; Gao, Lixin; Hu, Xiaobei; Zhang, Jiankang; Dong, Xiaowu; Li, Jia; Liu, Tao; Zhou, Yubo; Hu, Yongzhou. Formula: C5H6N2O2. The article was titled 《Development of macrocyclic peptides containing epoxyketone with oral availability as proteasome inhibitors》. The information in the text is summarized as follows:
Macrocyclization has been frequently utilized for optimizing peptide or peptidomimetic-based compounds In an attempt to obtain potent, metabolically stable, and orally available proteasome inhibitors, 30 oprozomib-derived macrocyclic peptides with structural diversity in their N-terminus and linker were successively designed and synthesized for structure-activity relationship (SAR) studies. As a consequence, the macrocyclic peptides with N-methyl-pyrazole, imidazole, and pyrazole as their resp. N-termini exhibited favorable in vitro activity and metabolic stability, which translated into their potent in vivo proteasome inhibitory activity after oral administration. In particular, pyrazole-containing compound (I), as the most distinguished one among this series, displayed excellent chymotrypsin-like (ChT-L, β5) inhibitory potency (IC50 = 16 nM), low nanomolar antiproliferative activity against all three of the tested cell lines, and superior metabolic stability in mouse liver microsome (MLM), as well as favorable inhibition against ChT-L compared to that of oprozomib in BABL/c mice following administration at a comparatively low dose, thereby representing a promising candidate for further development. The results came from multiple reactions, including the reaction of Methyl 1H-pyrazole-3-carboxylate(cas: 15366-34-4Formula: C5H6N2O2)
Methyl 1H-pyrazole-3-carboxylate(cas: 15366-34-4) belongs to pyrazoles. Pyrazole derivatives have been reported to exhibit a wide range of applications in medicinal chemistry and pharmacology. A large number of drugs incorporating pyrazole structure have been utilized as partial agonists for nicotinic acid receptors, antidepressants, antimicrobial agents, antiviral agents, and antifungal agents solely or along with the combination of other structural motifs.Formula: C5H6N2O2
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