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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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 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

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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

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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 UCT943 was being developed as a back-up compound to MMV048 but has been withdrawn due to preclinical toxicity concerns [4].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].