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ArticleRSC medicinal chemistry2026

Design, synthesis, and X-ray structural studies of potent SARS-CoV-2 Mpro inhibitors containing tetrahydroisoquinoline-3-carboxamides as P2 ligands.

Arun K Ghosh, Ashish Sharma, Satyanarayana Iddum, Sydney N Bogan, Uttara Jayashankar, Emma K Lendy, Shin-Ichiro Hattori, Nobuyo Higashi-Kuwata, Hiroaki Mitsuya, Andrew D Mesecar

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Arun K GhoshDepartment of Chemistry, Purdue University 560 Oval Drive West Lafayette IN 47907 USA akghosh@purdue.edu.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2472-1841
Ashish SharmaDepartment of Chemistry, Purdue University 560 Oval Drive West Lafayette IN 47907 USA akghosh@purdue.edu.
Satyanarayana IddumDepartment of Chemistry, Purdue University 560 Oval Drive West Lafayette IN 47907 USA akghosh@purdue.edu.
Sydney N BoganDepartment of Biochemistry, Purdue University West Lafayette IN 47907 USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8710-8185
Uttara JayashankarDepartment of Biological Sciences, Purdue University West Lafayette IN 47907 USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7655-8671
Emma K LendyDepartment of Biochemistry, Purdue University West Lafayette IN 47907 USA.
Shin-Ichiro HattoriDepartment of Refractory Viral Diseases, National Center for Global Health and Medicine Shinjuku Tokyo 162-8655 Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5637-3397
Nobuyo Higashi-KuwataDepartment of Refractory Viral Diseases, National Center for Global Health and Medicine Shinjuku Tokyo 162-8655 Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9404-3532
Hiroaki MitsuyaDepartment of Refractory Viral Diseases, National Center for Global Health and Medicine Shinjuku Tokyo 162-8655 Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9274-3853
Andrew D MesecarDepartment of Chemistry, Purdue University 560 Oval Drive West Lafayette IN 47907 USA akghosh@purdue.edu.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1241-2577

Funding

Transgenic Mouse Core Facility Shared Resource (TMCF-SR)P30CA023168 · NCI · PURDUE UNIVERSITY WEST LAFAYETTE · PI ANDREW D MESECAR · 1985 to 2026
$43.4M
SARS-CoV-2 protease inhibitors for treating COVID-19R01AI158649 · NIAID · PURDUE UNIVERSITY · PI ARUN K GHOSH, ANDREW D MESECAR · 2021 to 2026
$3.8M
Design & Synthesis of Nonpeptide Protease InhibitorsR01AI150466 · NIAID · PURDUE UNIVERSITY · PI ARUN K GHOSH · 2023 to 2026
$2.4M
Purdue University Molecular Biophysics Training ProgramT32GM132024 · NIGMS · PURDUE UNIVERSITY · PI Angeline Marie Lyon, John Tesmer · 2019 to 2026
$2.0M
Design & Synthesis of Nonpeptide Protease InhibitorsR37AI150466 · NIAID · PURDUE UNIVERSITY · PI GHOSH, ARUN K · 2019 to 2020
$969k
Drug Discovery in Infectious Disease TrainingT32AI148103 · NIAID · PURDUE UNIVERSITY · PI STAHELIN, ROBERT VIRGIL, YEO, YOON · 2020 to 2024
$949k
New X-ray Diffractometer and Detector for Purdue Macromolecular CrystallographyS10OD030507 · OD · PURDUE UNIVERSITY · PI TESMER, JOHN · 2022 to 2022
$860k
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA023168NIAID NIH HHS HHSN272201700060CNIAID NIH HHS R01 AI150466NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI158649NIAID NIH HHS R37 AI150466NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI148103NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM132024NIH HHS S10 OD030507
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Structure based design, synthesis and evaluation of a series of potent SARS-CoV-2 main protease inhibitors are described. We designed conformationally constrained tetrahydroisoquinoline-3-carboxamides as P2 ligands. The studies involved structure-activity relationship studies by varying P1, P2, P3, and P4 ligands, including five- and six-membered lactam rings as P1 ligands as well as nitrile and thiazole heterocycles as P1' ligands. These new inhibitors exhibited potent SARS-CoV-2 Mpro inhibitory activity. Several inhibitors also blocked the replication of SARS-CoV-2 in VeroE6 cells with low nanomolar EC

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