skip to main content
OSTI.GOV title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Structure-Based Design of Macrocyclic Factor XIa Inhibitors: Discovery of the Macrocyclic Amide Linker

Journal Article · · Journal of Medicinal Chemistry

A novel series of macrocyclic FXIa inhibitors was designed based on our lead acyclic phenyl imidazole chemotype. Our initial macrocycles, which were double-digit nanomolar FXIa inhibitors, were further optimized with assistance from utilization of structure-based drug design and ligand bound X-ray crystal structures. This effort resulted in the discovery of a macrocyclic amide linker which was found to form a key hydrogen bond with the carbonyl of Leu41 in the FXIa active site, resulting in potent FXIa inhibitors. Here, the macrocyclic FXIa series, exemplified by compound 16, had a FXIa Ki = 0.16 nM with potent anticoagulant activity in an in vitro clotting assay (aPTT EC1.5x = 0.27 μM) and excellent selectivity against the relevant blood coagulation enzymes.

Research Organization:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-06CH11357
OSTI ID:
1347764
Journal Information:
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, Vol. 60, Issue 3; ISSN 0022-2623
Publisher:
American Chemical Society (ACS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
ENGLISH
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 30 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

References (63)

Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation: A Clinical Perspective on Trials of the Novel Oral Anticoagulants journal January 2016
How to choose appropriate direct oral anticoagulant for patient with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation journal December 2015
Direct Oral Anticoagulants journal December 2014
Rivaroxaban for Thromboprophylaxis in Acutely Ill Medical Patients journal February 2013
Apixaban versus Enoxaparin for Thromboprophylaxis in Medically Ill Patients journal December 2011
Rivaroxaban in Patients with a Recent Acute Coronary Syndrome journal January 2012
Apixaban with Antiplatelet Therapy after Acute Coronary Syndrome journal August 2011
New Oral Anticoagulants in Coronary Artery Disease journal December 2015
New oral anticoagulants in addition to single or dual antiplatelet therapy after an acute coronary syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis journal March 2013
Structure and function of factor XI journal April 2010
Intrinsic Pathway of Coagulation and Arterial Thrombosis journal December 2007
Feedback activation of factor XI by thrombin in plasma results in additional formation of thrombin that protects fibrin clots from fibrinolysis journal October 1995
Factor XI Deficiency or Hemophilia C book January 2014
Reduced incidence of ischemic stroke in patients with severe factor XI deficiency journal April 2008
Inherited factor XI deficiency confers no protection against acute myocardial infarction journal April 2003
Patients with severe factor XI deficiency have a reduced incidence of deep-vein thrombosis journal January 2011
Levels of intrinsic coagulation factors and the risk of myocardial infarction among men: opposite and synergistic effects of factors XI and XII journal December 2006
High Levels of Coagulation Factor XI as a Risk Factor for Venous Thrombosis journal March 2000
Factor XI as a target for antithrombotic therapy journal September 2014
Factor XI and XII as antithrombotic targets journal January 2011
Factor XI contributes to thrombus propagation on injured neointima of the rabbit iliac artery journal July 2006
Prevention of vascular graft occlusion and thrombus-associated thrombin generation by inhibition of factor XI journal January 2009
Factor XI–dependence of surface- and tissue factor–initiated thrombus propagation in primates journal August 2003
Antithrombotic Effect of Antisense Factor XI Oligonucleotide Treatment in Primates journal July 2013
Inhibition of the intrinsic coagulation pathway factor XI by antisense oligonucleotides: a novel antithrombotic strategy with lowered bleeding risk journal November 2010
Factor XI Antisense Oligonucleotide for Prevention of Venous Thrombosis journal January 2015
Antithrombotic and hemostatic effects of a small molecule factor XIa inhibitor in rats journal September 2007
A small-molecule factor XIa inhibitor produces antithrombotic efficacy with minimal bleeding time prolongation in rabbits journal May 2011
Synthesis, SAR exploration, and X-ray crystal structures of factor XIa inhibitors containing an α-ketothiazole arginine journal June 2006
Design, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation of Peptidomimetic Inhibitors of Factor XIa as Novel Anticoagulants journal December 2006
Synthesis and in vitro biological evaluation of aryl boronic acids as potential inhibitors of factor XIa journal October 2006
Clavatadine A, A Natural Product with Selective Recognition and Irreversible Inhibition of Factor XIa journal June 2008
Designing Allosteric Inhibitors of Factor XIa. Lessons from the Interactions of Sulfated Pentagalloylglucopyranosides journal December 2013
Allosteric Modification of Factor XIa Functional Activity upon Binding to Polyanions journal June 2004
Tetrahydroquinoline Derivatives as Potent and Selective Factor XIa Inhibitors journal January 2014
In vitro, antithrombotic and bleeding time studies of BMS-654457, a small-molecule, reversible and direct inhibitor of factor XIa journal August 2015
Phenylimidazoles as Potent and Selective Inhibitors of Coagulation Factor XIa with in Vivo Antithrombotic Activity journal November 2014
Structure-based design of inhibitors of coagulation factor XIa with novel P1 moieties journal April 2015
Discovery of a Potent Parenterally Administered Factor XIa Inhibitor with Hydroxyquinolin-2(1 H )-one as the P2′ Moiety journal April 2015
Pyridine and pyridinone-based factor XIa inhibitors journal February 2015
Orally bioavailable pyridine and pyrimidine-based Factor XIa inhibitors: Discovery of the methyl N-phenyl carbamate P2 prime group journal May 2016
Novel phenylalanine derived diamides as Factor XIa inhibitors journal January 2016
Creating Novel Activated Factor XI Inhibitors through Fragment Based Lead Generation and Structure Aided Drug Design journal January 2015
The exploration of macrocycles for drug discovery — an underexploited structural class journal July 2008
Macrocycles Are Great Cycles: Applications, Opportunities, and Challenges of Synthetic Macrocycles in Drug Discovery journal April 2011
Macrocycles in new drug discovery journal July 2012
Macrocyclic Drugs and Clinical Candidates: What Can Medicinal Chemists Learn from Their Properties? journal September 2013
Design and synthesis of potent and selective macrocyclic thrombin inhibitors journal August 2003
Novel thrombin inhibitors that are based on a macrocyclic tripeptide motif journal December 1996
Structure-Based Design of Macrocyclic Coagulation Factor VIIa Inhibitors journal July 2015
Synthesis of substituted imidazopyrazines as ligands for the human somatostatin receptor subtype 5 journal March 2001
Ag(I)-promoted Suzuki–Miyaura cross-couplings of n -alkylboronic acids journal October 2001
Ammonium salts as an inexpensive and convenient nitrogen source in the Cu-catalyzed amination of aryl halides at room temperature journal January 2008
Preparation of N -Aryl Compounds by Amino Acid-Promoted Ullmann-Type Coupling Reactions journal January 2005
Synthesis of fused bicyclic imidazoles by ring-closing metathesis journal February 2003
Discovery of 1-(4-Methoxyphenyl)-7-oxo-6-(4-(2-oxopiperidin-1-yl)phenyl)-4,5,6,7-tetrahydro- 1 H -pyrazolo[3,4- c ]pyridine-3-carboxamide (Apixaban, BMS-562247), a Highly Potent, Selective, Efficacious, and Orally Bioavailable Inhibitor of Blood Coagulation Factor Xa journal November 2007
Characterization of the H-kininogen-binding Site on Factor XI journal February 2002
[20] Processing of X-ray diffraction data collected in oscillation mode book January 1997
AMoRe : an automated package for molecular replacement journal March 1994
On the fast translation functions for molecular replacement journal July 1995
The CCP4 suite programs for protein crystallography journal September 1994
Refinement of severely incomplete structures with maximum likelihood in BUSTER–TNT journal November 2004
Features and development of Coot journal March 2010

Cited By (7)

Recent advances in the discovery and development of factor XI/XIa inhibitors journal May 2018
Bypassing the proline/thiazoline requirement of the macrocyclase PatG journal January 2017
A synthetic heparin mimetic that allosterically inhibits factor XIa and reduces thrombosis in vivo without enhanced risk of bleeding journal September 2019
Modular Synthesis of Diverse Natural Product-Like Macrocycles: Discovery of Hits with Antimycobacterial Activity journal May 2017
Discovery methods of coagulation-inhibiting drugs journal September 2017
Design, Synthesis, and Characterization of Macrocyclic Inhibitors of the Proprotein Convertase Furin journal February 2019
Ceramide-Templated Macrolactams: Total Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Macrocyclic α-Galactosylceramide Analogues and their Aglycons: Ceramide-Templated Macrolactams: Total Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Macrocyclic α-Galactosylceramide Analogues and their Aglycons journal March 2019