6-Hydroxypyridin-3-ylboronic acid is a heterocyclic building block.1,2It has been used in the synthesis of non-nucleoside inhibitors of hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA-dependent RNA polymerase nonstructural protein 5B (NS5B).16-Hydroxypyridin-3-ylboronic acid has also been used in the synthesis of mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) inhibitors.2 1.Hendricks, R.T., Spencer, S.R., Blake, J.F., et al.3-Hydroxyisoquinolines as inhibitors of HCV NS5b RNA-dependent RNA polymeraseBioorg. Med. Chem. Lett.19(2)410-414(2009) 2.Verheijen, J.C., Richard, D.J., Curran, K., et al.Discovery of 4-morpholino-6-aryl-1H-pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidines as highly potent and sselective ATP-competitive inhibitors of the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR): Optimization of the 6-aryl substituentJ. Med. Chem.52(24)8010-8024(2009)
YW3-56 is an inhibitor of protein arginine deiminase 2 (PAD2) and PAD4 (IC50s = 0.5-1 and 1-5 μM, respectively).1It inhibits the growth of U2OS osteosarcoma cells (IC50= ~2.5 μM) in a p53-dependent mannerviainduction of SESN2 and subsequent inhibition of mTORC1. YW3-56 (10 mg kg) reduces tumor growth in an S-180 murine sarcoma tumor model. It also inhibits tumor growth in the 1883 MDA-MB-231 breast cancer bone metastasis mouse xenograft model.2 1.Wang, Y., Li, P., Wang, S., et al.Anticancer peptidylarginine deiminase (PAD) inhibitors regulate the autophagy flux and the mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 activityThe Journal of Biological Chemisty287(31)25941-25952(2012) 2.Wang, S., Chen, X.A., Hu, J., et al.ATF4 gene network mediates cellular response to the anticancer PAD inhibitor YW3-56 in triple-negative breast cancer cellsMol. Cancer Ther.14(4)877-888(2015)