- High affinity central benzodiazepine receptor ligands. Part 3: Insights into the pharmacophore and pattern recognition study of intrinsic activities of pyrazolo[4,3-c]quinolin-3-ones
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Novel 2-phenyl-2,5-dihydropyrazolo[4,3-c]quinolin-3-(3H)-ones (PQs) endowed with high affinity for central benzodiazepine receptor (BzR) were synthesized. In particular, 9-fluoro-2-(2-fluorophenyl)-2,5-dihydro-3H- pyrazolo[4,3-c]quinolin-3-one (22) showed binding affinity in the subnanomolar concentration range and proved to be in vitro a potent antagonist. This finding allowed the nature of the hydrogen bonding receptor site H 2 to be established, as located between the N-1 nitrogen of the PQ nucleus and the ortho position of the N-2-aryl group. [35S]tert- Butylbicyclophosphorothionate ([35S]TBPS) binding assays and electrophysiological measurements of the effects on GABA-evoked Cl- currents at recombinant human α1β2γ 2L GABAA receptors, expressed in Xenopus laevis oocytes, were used to assess the intrinsic activities of a large series of PQs. With the aim of extracting discriminant information and distinguishing BzR ligands with different profiles of efficacy, 51 PQ derivatives, including full and partial agonists, antagonists, and inverse agonists, were analyzed in a multidimensional chemical descriptor space, defined by the lipophilicity parameter CLOG P and 3-D molecular WHIM descriptors, by means of principal component analysis, k-nearest neighbors (k-NN) method, and linear discriminant analysis (LDA). The classification methods were applied to subsets of pairs of efficacy classes, and lipophilicity and 3-D size descriptors were detected as the discriminant variables by a stepwise linear discriminant analysis. LDA proved to be superior to k-NN, especially in classifying PQ ligands (60-84% of success in prediction ability) into categories of efficacies which were contiguous and quite overlapped in the hyperspace of variables.
- Carotti, Andrea,Altomare, Cosimo,Savini, Luisa,Chiasserini, Luisa,Pellerano, Cesare,Mascia, Maria P.,Maciocco, Elisabetta,Busonero, Fabio,Mameli, Manuel,Biggio, Giovanni,Sanna, Enrico
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- Discovery of 4-Aminoquinoline-3-carboxamide derivatives as potent reversible Bruton's tyrosine kinase inhibitors for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis
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A structure-hopping strategy was applied to discover a series of novel 4-aminoquinoline-3-carboxamide derivatives as potent, reversible BTK inhibitors. Compared to the previously described cinnoline scaffold compounds, the 4-aminoquinoline analogues showed significantly improved drug-like properties, especially in their aqueous solubility. The most potent compound, 25, displayed a stronger inhibitory effect on both BTKWT (IC50 = 5.3 nM) and BTKC481S (IC50 = 39 nM). In a rodent collagen-induced arthritis model, compound 25 efficiently reduced paw swelling without a loss in body weight. On the basis of potency, drug-like properties, stability, and noncovalent mode of inhibition, our representative inhibitors could have a promising profile to be treatments for a wide range of autoimmune diseases.
- Yao, Xia,Sun, Xiuyun,Jin, Shuyu,Yang, Ling,Xu, Hongjiang,Rao, Yu
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(2019/08/20)
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- BENZYL-SUBSTITUTED QUINOLONE M1 RECEPTOR POSITIVE ALLOSTERIC MODULATORS
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The present invention is directed to benzyl-substituted quinolone compounds of general formula (I) which are M1 receptor positive allosteric modulators and that are useful in the treatment of diseases in which the M1 receptor is involved, such as Alzheime
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