Identification of lipid-like salicylic acid-based derivatives as potent and membrane-permeable PTP1B inhibitors

Liang Li, Mojdeh S. Tavallaie, Fangzhou Xie, Yu Xia, Yaoyao Liang, Faqin Jiang, Lei Fu*

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Abstract

Developing protein tyrosine phosphatase-1B (PTP1B) inhibitors is an important strategy to treat type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Most existing ionic PTP1B inhibitors aren't of clinical useful due to their low cell-permeability, however. Herein, we introduced a series of lipid-like acid-based (salicylic acid) modules to prepare PTP1B inhibitors, and demonstrated a marked improvement of cell-permeability while maintaining excellent PTP1B inhibitory activity (e.g. compound B12D, IC50 = 0.37 μM against PTP1B and Papp = 1.5 × 10−6 cm/s). We believe that this strategy can be widely utilized to modify potent lead compounds with low cell-permeability.

Original languageEnglish
Article number103296
JournalBioorganic Chemistry
Volume93
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2019
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Membrane permeability
  • PTP1B inhibitors
  • Salicylic acid-based derivatives
  • T2DM

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