UCT943   Click here for help

GtoPdb Ligand ID: 10093

Antimalarial Ligand
Compound class: Synthetic organic
Comment: UCT943 was identified from a SAR study of the 2-aminopyridines, a class of small molecules with promising antimalarial activity [2].

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2D Structure
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Physico-chemical Properties
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Hydrogen bond acceptors 6
Hydrogen bond donors 2
Rotatable bonds 5
Topological polar surface area 84.14
Molecular weight 427.16
XLogP 3.36
No. Lipinski's rules broken 0
SMILES / InChI / InChIKey
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Canonical SMILES Nc1ncc(nc1c1ccc(cc1)C(F)(F)F)c1ccc(cc1)C(=O)N1CCNCC1
Isomeric SMILES Nc1ncc(nc1c1ccc(cc1)C(F)(F)F)c1ccc(cc1)C(=O)N1CCNCC1
InChI InChI=1S/C22H20F3N5O/c23-22(24,25)17-7-5-15(6-8-17)19-20(26)28-13-18(29-19)14-1-3-16(4-2-14)21(31)30-11-9-27-10-12-30/h1-8,13,27H,9-12H2,(H2,26,28)
InChI Key GGOFGCMPKAWHEZ-UHFFFAOYSA-N
Guide to Malaria Pharmacology Comments
Phenotypic whole cell high-throughput screening has identified the 2-aminopyridines as a class of small molecules with promising antimalarial activity [6]. From this series, UCT943 was optimized for antiplasmodial activity by structural modification of the clinical candidate MMV048 and shown to have asexual blood stage, transmission-blocking, and liver stage activities [1-2]. UCT943 was being developed as a back-up compound to MMV048 but has been withdrawn due to preclinical toxicity concerns [4].
The compound formulation is claimed in patent WO2013121387 [5].

Potential Target/Mechanism Of Action: Genomic experiments provide evidence that the molecular target of UCT943 is the Plasmodium lipid kinase, phosphatidylinositol 4-kinase (PfPI4K) [1]. This lipid kinase has been proposed to act at the Golgi to regulate essential membrane trafficking events [3].