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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Boga SB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6047169 | biostudies-other | 2018 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
ACS medicinal chemistry letters 20180614 7
The emergence and evolution of new immunological cancer therapies has sparked a rapidly growing interest in discovering novel pathways to treat cancer. Toward this aim, a novel series of pyrrolidine derivatives (compound <b>5</b>) were identified as potent inhibitors of ERK1/2 with excellent kinase selectivity and dual mechanism of action but suffered from poor pharmacokinetics (PK). The challenge of PK was overcome by the discovery of a novel 3(<i>S</i>)-thiomethyl pyrrolidine analog <b>7</b>. ...[more]