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Discovery of quinazolinone and quinoxaline derivatives as potent and selective poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase-1/2 inhibitors

  • FEBS Lett. 2005 Feb 28;579(6):1389-93. doi: 10.1016/j.febslet.2005.01.036.
Akinori Iwashita 1 Kouji Hattori Hirofumi Yamamoto Junya Ishida Yoshiyuki Kido Kazunori Kamijo Kenji Murano Hiroshi Miyake Takayoshi Kinoshita Masaichi Warizaya Mitsuru Ohkubo Nobuya Matsuoka Seitaro Mutoh
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  • 1 Medicinal Biology Research Laboratories, Fujisawa Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., 2-1-6 Kashima, Osaka 532-8514, Japan. [email protected]
Abstract

Two classes of quinazolinone derivatives and quinoxaline derivatives were identified as potent and selective poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase-1 and 2 (PARP-1) and (PARP-2) inhibitors, respectively. In PARP enzyme assays using recombinant PARP-1 and PARP-2, quinazolinone derivatives displayed relatively high selectivity for PARP-1 and quinoxaline derivatives showed superior selectivity for PARP-2. SBDD analysis via a combination of X-ray structural study and homology modeling suggested distinct interactions of inhibitors with PARP-1 and PARP-2. These findings provide a new structural framework for the design of selective inhibitors for PARP-1 and PARP-2.

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