N-substituted 2′-(aminoaryl)benzothiazoles as kinase inhibitors: Hit identification and scaffold hopping

Starting with a hit from vHTS attained by a docking procedure of virtual compounds into ATP pockets of different kinases applying the 4SCan® technology, variations of the adenine mimic resulted in the identification of promising scaffolds, giving rise to in vitro IC50 values in the nanomolar range on different kinases down to 63 nM.

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