Discovery of Highly Potent, Selective, and Orally Efficacious p300/CBP Histone Acetyltransferases Inhibitors

J Med Chem. 2020 Feb 13;63(3):1337-1360. doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.9b01721. Epub 2020 Jan 28.

Abstract

p300 and CREB-binding protein (CBP) are ubiquitously expressed pleiotropic lysine acetyltransferases and play a key role as transcriptional co-activators that are essential for a multitude of cellular processes. Despite great importance, there is a lack of highly selective, potent, druglike p300/CBP inhibitors. Through the artificial-intelligence-assisted drug discovery pipeline and further optimization, we reported the discovery of novel, highly selective, potent small-molecule inhibitors of p300/CBP histone acetyltransferases (HAT) with desired druglike properties, exemplified by B026. Our data demonstrated that B026, with half maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50) values of 1.8 nM to p300 and 9.5 nM to CBP enzyme inhibitory activity, is the most potent, selective p300/CBP HAT inhibitor. Moreover, B026 achieves significant and dose-dependent tumor growth inhibition in an animal model of human cancer, suggesting that B026 is a highly promising p300/CBP HAT inhibitor and warrants extensive preclinical investigation as a potential clinical development candidate.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Antineoplastic Agents / chemical synthesis
  • Antineoplastic Agents / pharmacokinetics
  • Antineoplastic Agents / therapeutic use*
  • CREB-Binding Protein / antagonists & inhibitors*
  • Cell Line, Tumor
  • Cell Proliferation / drug effects
  • Datasets as Topic
  • Drug Discovery
  • E1A-Associated p300 Protein / antagonists & inhibitors*
  • Enzyme Inhibitors / chemical synthesis
  • Enzyme Inhibitors / pharmacokinetics
  • Enzyme Inhibitors / therapeutic use*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Mice, Inbred BALB C
  • Microsomes, Liver / metabolism
  • Molecular Docking Simulation
  • Molecular Structure
  • Neoplasms / drug therapy*
  • Neural Networks, Computer
  • Rats, Sprague-Dawley
  • Spiro Compounds / chemical synthesis
  • Spiro Compounds / pharmacokinetics
  • Spiro Compounds / therapeutic use*
  • Structure-Activity Relationship

Substances

  • Antineoplastic Agents
  • Enzyme Inhibitors
  • Spiro Compounds
  • CREB-Binding Protein
  • CREBBP protein, human
  • E1A-Associated p300 Protein
  • EP300 protein, human