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  2. Identification of an Orally Bioavailable, Potent, and Selective Inhibitor of GlyT1

Identification of an Orally Bioavailable, Potent, and Selective Inhibitor of GlyT1

  • ACS Med Chem Lett. 2010 Jun 25;1(7):350-4. doi: 10.1021/ml1001085.
Wesley P Blackaby 1 Richard T Lewis 1 Joanne L Thomson 1 Andrew S R Jennings 1 Simon C Goodacre 1 Leslie J Street 1 Angus M MacLeod 1 Andrew Pike 1 Suzanne Wood 1 Steve Thomas 1 Terry A Brown 1 Alison Smith 1 Gopalan Pillai 1 Sarah Almond 1 Martin R Guscott 1 H Donald Burns 2 Waisi Eng 2 Christine Ryan 2 Jacquelynn Cook 2 Terence G Hamill 2
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Affiliations

  • 1 Merck Sharp and Dohme, Neuroscience Research Centre, Terlings Park, Eastwick Road, Harlow, Essex CM20 2QR, United Kingdom.
  • 2 Research Imaging, Merck Research Laboratories, West Point, Pennsylvania 19486.
Abstract

Amalgamation of the structure-activity relationship of two series of GlyT1 inhibitors developed at Merck led to the discovery of a clinical candidate, compound 16 (DCCCyB), which demonstrated excellent in vivo occupancy of GlyT1 transporters in rhesus monkey as determined by displacement of a PET tracer ligand.

Keywords

DCCCyB; GlyT1; Inhibitor; PET tracer ligand; structure−activity relationship.

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