N-(7-Cyano-6-(4-fluoro-3-(2-(3-(trifluoromethyl)phenypacetamido)phenoxy) benzo[d]thiazol-2-yl)cyclopropanecarboxamide (TAK632) Promotes Inhibition of BRAF through the Induction of Inhibited Dinners

作者：Grasso Michael; Estrada Michelle A; Berrios Kiara N; Winkler Jeffrey D^*; Marmorstein Ronen^*

来源：Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2018, 61(11): 5034-5046.

DOI：10.1021/acs.jmedchem.8b00499

BRAF(v660E) is the most common activating mutation in melanoma and patients treated with BRAF(V600E) inhibitors all develop resistance within one year. A significant resistance pathway is paradoxical activation (transactivation) involving BRAF dimers, whereby an inhibitor bound protein subunit allosterically activates the other subunit. We recently reported on dimeric BRAF(V600E)-selective vemurafenib inhibitors that stabilize an inactive alpha C-out/alpha C-out homodimeric conformation with improved inhibitor potency and selectivity in vitro. We set out to extend this strategy to target RAF homo- and heterodimers with the pan-RAF inhibitor TAK632 in dimeric configuration. Surprisingly, we find that monomeric TAK632 induces an active alpha C-in/alpha C-in BRAF dimer conformation, while dimeric TAK inhibitors cannot promote BRAF dimers and have significantly compromised potency in vitro. These studies uncover the intimate connection between BRAF dimerization and TAK632 mode of inhibition and highlight the importance of understanding the impact of BRAF inhibitors on kinase dimerization.

• 出版日期2018-6-14