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elexacaftor   Click here for help

GtoPdb Ligand ID: 10552

Synonyms: Compound 1 [WO2018107100A1] | VX-445
Approved drug PDB Ligand
elexacaftor is an approved drug (FDA (2019))
Compound class: Synthetic organic
Comment: Elexacaftor (VX-445) is a next-generation CFTR corrector type agent. Like its predecessor tezacaftor, elexacaftor is designed to improve CFTR protein processing and trafficking in the presence of the F508del mutation. Elexacaftor and tezacaftor CFTR corrector activities have synergistic effects [6,9]. As such a triple combination therapeutic with tezacaftor, izacaftor (a CFTR potentiator that increases CFTR channel gating activity) and elexacaftor increases CFTR function beyond that achieved by current standard of care with tezacaftor/izacaftor, and improves clinical symptoms in patients with cystic fibrosis with one or two F508del alleles [5].
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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 8
Hydrogen bond donors 1
Rotatable bonds 10
Topological polar surface area 132.1
Molecular weight 597.23
XLogP 6.25
No. Lipinski's rules broken 1

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Canonical SMILES CC1CN(C(C1)(C)C)c1nc(ccc1C(=O)NS(=O)(=O)c1cn(nc1C)C)n1ccc(n1)OCC(C(F)(F)F)(C)C
Isomeric SMILES C[C@@H]1CN(C(C1)(C)C)c1nc(ccc1C(=O)NS(=O)(=O)c1cn(nc1C)C)n1ccc(n1)OCC(C(F)(F)F)(C)C
InChI InChI=1S/C26H34F3N7O4S/c1-16-12-25(5,6)35(13-16)22-18(23(37)33-41(38,39)19-14-34(7)31-17(19)2)8-9-20(30-22)36-11-10-21(32-36)40-15-24(3,4)26(27,28)29/h8-11,14,16H,12-13,15H2,1-7H3,(H,33,37)/t16-/m0/s1
InChI Key MVRHVFSOIWFBTE-INIZCTEOSA-N

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Bioactivity Comments
Elevation of CFTR protein on the surface of patient-derived bronchial epithelial cells (with either the F508del-MF genotype, or the F508del-F508del genotype) in the presence of elexacaftor was determined using immuno-staining [6], and potency was measured on F508del-CFTR expressing NIH 3T3 cells (fluorescence-based HTS assay). Elexacaftor's apparent potency is increased when measured in the presence of tezacaftor and ivacaftor.
Elexacaftor has a small potentiating effect on CFTR [10]. It has off-target effects on several K+ channels [7].
Selectivity at ion channels
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Target Sp. Type Action Value Parameter Concentration range (M) Reference
CFTR Hs Activator - 6.4 – 7.2 pEC50 - 1,6
⤷ pEC50 6.4 – 7.2 (EC50 4.07x10-7 – 7x10-8 M) Correction [1,6]
Targets where the ligand is described in the comment field
Target Comment
copper metabolism domain containing 1 COMMD1 is a multi-function protein that is involved in a range of biological processes, including copper homeostasis, regulation of protein localisation, regulation of NF-κB signaling, and it is proposed to be a component of the Cul2-RING ubiquitin ligase complex. A peptide that binds directly to COMMD1 (CIGB-552) has reported anti-tumour activity [3-4], and is also proposed to synergise with cystic fibrosis triple therapy Kaftrio (elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor) to futher improve chloride transport via the cystic fibrosis CFTR-F508del protein variant. CIGB-552 is suggested to disrupt COMMD1-associated degradation of the misfolded mutated CFTR [2,8] and to enhance its localisation to the plasma membrane.
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CFTR overview