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Identification of Human Toll-like Receptor 2-Agonistic Activity in Dihydropyridine-Quinolone Carboxamides Ziwei Hu, Janardhan Banothu, Mallesh Beesu, Collin J. Gustafson, Michael J. H. Brush, Kathryn L. Trautman, Alex C.D. Salyer, Balaji Pathakumari, and Sunil A. David ACS Med. Chem. Lett., Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acsmedchemlett.8b00540 • Publication Date (Web): 20 Dec 2018 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on December 23, 2018

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Identification of Human Toll-like Receptor 2-Agonistic Activity in Dihydropyridine-Quinolone Carboxamides. Ziwei Hu, Janardhan Banothu, Mallesh Beesu, Collin J. Gustafson, Michael J. H. Brush, Kathryn L. Trautman, Alex C.D. Salyer, Balaji Pathakumari, Sunil A. David*. Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Sixth Street SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States KEYWORDS: Vaccine adjuvants, Toll-like receptor 2, Chemokines, Cytokines, Dihydropyridine-quinolones. ABSTRACT: Using a multiplexed, reporter gene-based, high-throughput screen, we identified 9-fluoro-7-hydroxy-3-methyl-5-oxoN-(pyridin-3-ylmethyl)-2,3-dihydro-1H,5H-pyrido[3,2,1-ij]quinoline-6-carboxamide as a TLR2 agonist. Preliminary SAR studies on the carboxamide moiety led to the identification of analogues that induce chemokines and cytokines in a TLR2-dependent manner. These results represent new leads for the development of vaccine adjuvants.

The sustained decrease in mortality caused by infectious diseases is largely attributable to immunization, and vaccines continue to play an indispensable role in decreasing the burden of infectious diseases worldwide.1 The major categories of vaccines are those that contain live attenuated microbes, those that contain killed microbes, and those that contain one or more of an antigenic subunit (such as protein or polysaccharide) derived from the microbe.2 Modern vaccines increasingly rely on well-defined, highly purified subunit and recombinant antigens, and often require the incorporation of appropriate immune potentiators (also termed adjuvants), along with the antigen. Adjuvants initiate early innate immune responses and thereby enhance immunogenicity, leading to more robust and long-lasting adaptive immune responses.3 Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are a family of pattern recognition receptors that serve as key sentinels of innate immune system. There are 10 TLRs in the human genome; these trans-membrane proteins recognize pathogen-associated molecular patterns that are shared by pathogens but are sufficiently different so as to be distinguishable from host molecules. 4-6 The engagement of innate immune receptors plays a role in the action of vaccine adjuvants such as monophosphoryl lipid A (TLR4 agonist)7 and Adjuvant 1018 (TLR9 agonist),8-9 highlighting the importance of innate immune stimulatory molecules in the design and development of novel vaccines. Using a recently-described multiplexed, reporter gene-based, high-throughput screen (HTS) capable of detecting agonists of TLR2, TLR3, TLR4, TLR5, TLR7, TLR8, TLR9, NOD1 and NOD2,10 we identified a novel immunostimulatory chemotype, typified by the hit compound 2 (9-fluoro-7-hydroxy-3-methyl5-oxo-N-(pyridin-3-ylmethyl)-2,3-dihydro-1H,5H-pyrido [3,2,1-ij]quinoline-6-carboxamide, Scheme 1). Subsequent deconvolution of activity in individual TLR/NLR screens indicated TLR2 activity with no detectable activity for other TLR/NLR targets in counter-screens. Other than numerous

canonical TLR2 agonists of the thioacylglycerol lipopeptide chemotypes that we had previously explored,11-14 heterocyclic small molecules capable of engaging TLR2 have not been identified as of yet. An examination of the HTS results for the nearest neighbors of 2 suggested that the amide-lined aryl group could be a productive venue for exploration. We report here a preliminary structure-activity relationship study on varying the 6-carboxamide moiety. The tricyclic dihydropyridine-quinolone core was synthesized using an elegant one-pot method developed by Ukrainets et al.15-16 A concerted nucleophilic addition-cyclization reaction of 6-fluoro-2-methyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline with triethyl methanetricarboxylate afforded the ester 1, which was subsequently displaced with a variety of amines to yield analogues 2 (hit compound) through 57 (Scheme 1). We began our SAR exploration by evaluating substituted pyridines (analogues 3-21), an examination of which initially appeared to suggest that substituents at C2 and C6 of the pyridine ring were poorly tolerated, whereas those at C4 and C5 were well tolerated. However, 14, with a 6-aminopyridylmethyl substituent was found to be equipotent to 2 in primary human TLR2-specific reporter gene assays, and compound 11 bearing a 6-chloropyridylmethyl substituent was also found to be weakly active (Figure 1). Surprisingly, 16, with a 2dimethylaminopyridylmethyl group, but not 15 with a 6dimethylaminopyridylmethyl functional group retained TLR2agonistic activity (Figure 1A). Taken together, these results appeared to point to potential Hbonding interactions with the ring nitrogen of the pyridine in a particular rotameric configuration, a surmise that was consistent with the finding that the homologated analogue 26, as well as conformationally constrained derivative 27 also retained activity. Activity was lost in all of the regioisomeric pyridinylmethyl analogues (19-21, 25), as well as pyridazinylmethyl (22, 24) and the pyrimidinylmethyl compound 23 (Figure 1A).

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Active compounds are depicted in red. Their corresponding EC50 values in human TLR2 screens are listed in Figure 1. Compounds 27, and 51-57 were obtained as the racemates.

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Figure 1. (A). Human TLR2-specific agonistic potencies of active analogues in primary screens (reporter gene assay). (B). Human MCP-1 induction (EC50 values) in human TLR2-expressing cells by select analogues. PAM2CSK4 (100 ng/mL) and DMSO (diluent) were used as positive and negative controls, respectively, in both assays. Data shown are means of quadruplicates.

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In order to identify the eutomer, distomer (and eudysmic ratios) of the racemic TLR-active compounds, we initially undertook the syntheses of R- and S- enantiomers of 2 and 14 (Scheme 2). N-acylation of 6-fluoro-2-methyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline with tosyl-S-prolinoyl chloride resulted in easily separable diastereoisomers 58a and 58b (Scheme 2), whose characterization exactly matched the findings of Sonawane and co-workers.18 Solvolysis with NaOEt furnished enantiomeric intermediates 59a and 59b, which furnished the enantiopure targets 61-65 (Scheme 2). Examination of these compounds in TLR2-specific reporter gene assays revealed that the Senantiomers were eutomeric, which was confirmed again in 65, the S-enantiomer of 10 (Fig. 3). Given that cells of myeloid lineage are the primary responder cells for TLR2 stimuli,19-21 we sought to re-examine select active enantiopure compounds in THP-1 cells of monocytic lineage using multiplexed cytokine/chemokine assays. Consistent with results depicted in Figure 1B, the Senantiomeric compounds 63-65 were found to be prominent inducers of chemokines MCP-1, MIP-1 and MIP-1 (Figure S1) .

Figure 3. TLR2-agonistic activity of enantiopure compounds. Data shown are means of triplicates. 3

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Figure 4. (A). NF-B induction by PAM2CSK4 (canonical TLR2 agonist) and the enantiopure compounds 63-65 in THP-1 Blue reporter cells showing relative potencies of the two compounds. (B) Additive effect of PAM2CSK4 and 63. Dose-response profiles to 63 in THP-1 Blue reporter cells are enhanced in the presence of increasing concentrations (0.015 pM to 9.83 pM) of PAM2CSK4. Data shown are means of quadruplicates. Similar enhancements were also observed for 64 and 65.

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Given that the dihydropyridine-quinolone carboxamides represent a novel class of TLR2 agonists, it was of particular interest to explore if these compounds bind to TLR2 at a site distinct from that of the canonical lipopeptides. While definitive conclusions must await crystallographic studies, co-stimulation experiments (Figure 4) clearly indicate additive effects of 63 in the presence of PAM2CSK4. Similar additive results with PAM2CSK4 were also observed for 64 and 65 (Figure S2). These results suggest that the binding site of the dihydropyridine-quinolone carboxamides are likely to be distinct. These results represent exciting new leads of non-canonical small-molecule agonists of TLR2, and charts a course forward for a detailed exploration of SAR of both the dihydropyridine and quinolone rings of the tricyclic core.

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Author Contributions The manuscript was written through contributions of all authors.

Funding Sources This work was supported by NIH/NIAID contract HHSN272201400056C.

ABBREVIATIONS HTS, high-throughput screen; IL-1 alpha, Interleukin-1 alpha; MCP-1, Monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 (CCL2); MIP-1 alpha/beta, macrophage inflammatory protein 1-alpha/beta; NOD1/2, Nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain-containing protein 1/2; NLR, NOD-like receptor; TLR, Toll-like receptor; TNF-alpha, tumor necrosis factor alpha.

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Supporting Information The Supporting Information is available free of charge on the ACS Publications website. Syntheses and experimental procedures, and characterization of compounds (PDF).

AUTHOR INFORMATION Corresponding Author * Sunil A. David, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 2-132 CCRB, 2231 6th Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455. Phone: (612) 625-3848. Email: [email protected]

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