Synthesis and SAR of novel, 4-(phenylsulfamoyl)phenylacetamide mGlu4 positive allosteric modulators (PAMs) identified by functional high-throughput screening (HTS)

  • Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2010 Sep 1;20(17):5175-8. doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2010.07.007.
Darren W Engers  1 ,  Patrick R Gentry ,  Richard Williams ,  Julie D Bolinger ,  C David Weaver ,  Usha N Menon ,  P Jeffrey Conn ,  Craig W Lindsley ,  Colleen M Niswender ,  Corey R Hopkins
Affiliations
  • 1. Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA.
PMID: 20667732 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2010.07.007
Abstract

Herein we disclose the synthesis and SAR of a series of 4-(phenylsulfamoyl)phenylacetamide compounds as mGlu(4) positive allosteric modulators (PAMs) that were identified via a functional HTS. An iterative parallel approach to these compounds culminated in the discovery of VU0364439 (11) which represents the most potent (19.8 nM) mGlu(4) PAM reported to date.

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