Design, synthesis and structure-activity relationship studies of novel sirtuin 2 (SIRT2) inhibitors with a benzamide skeleton.

Taki Sakai, Yotaro Matsumoto, Minoru Ishikawa, Kazuyuki Sugita, Yuichi Hashimoto, Nobuhiko Wakai, Akio Kitao, Era Morishita, Chikashi Toyoshima, Tomoatsu Hayashi, Tetsu Akiyama

Index: Bioorg. Med. Chem. 23(2) , 328-39, (2015)

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Abstract

Human sirtuin 2 (SIRT2) is an attractive target molecule for development of drugs to treat neurodegenerative diseases and cancer, because SIRT2 inhibitors have a protective effect against neurodegeneration and an anti-proliferative effect on cancer stem cells. We designed and synthesized a series of benzamide derivatives as SIRT2 inhibitor candidates. Among them, compound 17k showed the most potent SIRT2-inhibitory activity (IC50=0.60μM), with more than 150-fold selectivity over SIRT1 and SIRT3 isoforms (IC50 >100μM). Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.