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sorfequiline   Click here for help

GtoPdb Ligand ID: 13132

Synonyms: compound 46 [PMID: 30803745] | TBAJ-876
PDB Ligand
Compound class: Synthetic organic
Comment: Sorfequiline (previously known as TBAJ-876), an analogue of bedaquiline, was discovered at the University of Auckland following a lead optimization project to identify novel members of the diarylquinolines class of antibacterial compounds [5]. Sorfequiline has a more favourable ADME profile, lower risk of QT prolongation, and more potent antimycobacterial activity than bedaquiline [5]. See also our entry for TBAJ-587 that was identified in the same study.
Structure match for the INN sorfequiline is included in WHO proposed list 134 (Feb 2026).
2D Structure
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2D Structure

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Physico-chemical Properties
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Physico-chemical Properties

Calculated molecular properties are available for small molecules and natural products (not peptides). Properties were generated using the Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) (Willighagen EL et al. Journal of Cheminformatics vol. 9:33. 2017, doi:10.1186/s13321-017-0220-4; https://cdk.github.io/). All properties were selected to enable the prediction of the Lipinski Rule-of-Five profile or ‘druglikeness’ for each ligand. For more info on each category see the help pages.

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Hydrogen bond acceptors 11
Hydrogen bond donors 1
Rotatable bonds 13
Topological polar surface area 115.93
Molecular weight 657.55
XLogP 0.94
No. Lipinski's rules broken 3

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SMILES / InChI / InChIKey
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SMILES / InChI / InChIKey

SMILES (Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry Specification) A specification for unambiguously describing the structure of chemical molecules using short ASCII strings. Canonical SMILES specify a unique representation of the 2D structure without chiral or isotopic specifications. Isomeric SMILES include chiral specification and isotopes.

Standard InChI (IUPAC International Chemical Identifier) and InChIKey InChI is a non-proprietary, standard, textual identifier for chemical substances designed to facilitate linking of information and database searching. An InChIKey is a simplified version of a full InChI, designed for easier web searching.

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Canonical SMILES CN(C)CC[C@@](C1=CC(=NC(=C1)OC)OC)([C@H](C2=C(C(=NC(=C2)OC)OC)OC)C3=C(N=C4C=CC(=CC4=C3)Br)OC)O
Isomeric SMILES CN(C)CC[C@@](C1=CC(=NC(=C1)OC)OC)([C@H](C2=CC(=NC(=C2OC)OC)OC)C3=C(N=C4C=CC(=CC4=C3)Br)OC)O
InChI InChI=1S/C31H37BrN4O7/c1-36(2)12-11-31(37,19-15-24(38-3)34-25(16-19)39-4)27(21-17-26(40-5)35-30(43-8)28(21)41-6)22-14-18-13-20(32)9-10-23(18)33-29(22)42-7/h9-10,13-17,27,37H,11-12H2,1-8H3/t27-,31-/m1/s1
InChI Key HHDDKDPLFXIPBX-DLFZDVPBSA-N

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References
1. Courbon GM, Palme PR, Mann L, Richter A, Imming P, Rubinstein JL. (2023)
Mechanism of mycobacterial ATP synthase inhibition by squaramides and second generation diarylquinolines.
EMBO J, 42 (15): e113687. [PMID:37377118]
2. Lombardi A, Pappas F, Nedelman J, Hickman D, Jaw-Tsai S, Olugbosi M, Bruinenberg P, Beumont M, Sun E. (2024)
Pharmacokinetics and safety of TBAJ-876, a novel antimycobacterial diarylquinoline, in healthy subjects.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother, 68 (10): e0061324. [PMID:39194204]
3. Olugbosi M, Beumont M, Lombard L, Nedelman J, Timm J, Black T, Bruning-Barry R, Hickman D, Lombardi A, Betteridge M et al.. (2026)
Protocol for a phase 2, partially blinded, randomized trial assessing the safety and efficacy of sorfequiline or bedaquiline in combination with pretomanid and linezolid in adult participants with newly diagnosed, drug-sensitive, smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis (NC-009).
Trials, 27 (1): 102. [PMID:41495827]
4. Sarathy JP, Ganapathy US, Zimmerman MD, Dartois V, Gengenbacher M, Dick T. (2020)
TBAJ-876, a 3,5-Dialkoxypyridine Analogue of Bedaquiline, Is Active against Mycobacterium abscessus.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother, 64 (4). [PMID:31964791]
5. Sutherland HS, Tong AST, Choi PJ, Blaser A, Conole D, Franzblau SG, Lotlikar MU, Cooper CB, Upton AM, Denny WA et al.. (2019)
3,5-Dialkoxypyridine analogues of bedaquiline are potent antituberculosis agents with minimal inhibition of the hERG channel.
Bioorg Med Chem, 27 (7): 1292-1307. [PMID:30803745]