574730-01-1Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Design, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation of Orally Available First-Generation Dual-Target Selective Inhibitors of Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and Phosphodiesterase 5 (PDE5) for the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease
Mao, Fei,Wang, Huan,Ni, Wei,Zheng, Xinyu,Wang, Manjiong,Bao, Keting,Ling, Dazheng,Li, Xiaokang,Xu, Yixiang,Zhang, Haiyan,Li, Jian
, p. 328 - 345 (2018/03/01)
Through drug discovery strategies of repurposing and redeveloping existing drugs, a series of novel tadalafil derivatives were rationally designed, synthesized, and evaluated to seek dual-target AChE/PDE5 inhibitors as good candidate drugs for Alzheimer's disease (AD). Among these derivatives, 1p and 1w exhibited excellent selective dual-target AChE/PDE5 inhibitory activities and improved blood-brain barrier (BBB) penetrability. Importantly, 1w·Cit (citrate of 1w) could reverse the cognitive dysfunction of scopolamine-induced AD mice and exhibited an excellent effect on enhancing cAMP response element-binding protein (CREB) phosphorylation in vivo, a crucial factor in memory formation and synaptic plasticity. Moreover, the molecular docking simulations of 1w with hAChE and hPDE5A confirmed that our design strategy was rational. In summary, our research provides a potential selective dual-target AChE/PDE5 inhibitor as a good candidate drug for the treatment of AD, and it could also be regarded as a small molecule probe to validate the novel AD therapeutic approach in vivo.
Drug to genome to drug: Discovery of new antiplasmodial compounds
Beghyn, Terence B.,Charton, Julie,Leroux, Florence,Laconde, Guillaume,Bourin, Arnaud,Cos, Paul,Maes, Louis,Deprez, Benoit
experimental part, p. 3222 - 3240 (2011/06/27)
Figure Presented. The dominant strategy for discovery of new antimalarial drugs relies on cell-free assays on specific biochemical pathways of Plasmodium falciparum. However, it appears that screening directly on the parasite is a more rewarding approach. The drug to genome to drug approach consists of testing a small set of structural analogues of a drug acting on human proteins that have plasmodial orthologues. Both man and plasmodium possess cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterases (PDEs) that are key players of cell homeostasis. We synthesized and tested 40 analogues of tadalafil, a human PDE5 inhibitor, on P. falciparum in culture and obtained potent inhibitors of parasite growth. We discuss the structure-activity relationships, which support the hypothesis that our compounds kill the parasite via inhibition of plasmodial PDE activity. We also prove that antiplasmodial derivatives inhibit the hydrolysis of cyclic nucleotides of the parasite, validating the cAMP/cGMP pathways as therapeutic targets against Plasmodium falciparum.
CHIRAL TETRA-HYDRO BETA-CARBOLINE DERIVATIVES AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF AS ANTIPARASITIC COMPOUNDS
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Page/Page column 15-16; 17, (2008/06/13)
The invention relates to the use of chiral tetra-hydro β-carboline derivatives of formula (I) for the preparation of pharmaceutical composition for the prevention and/or the treatment of parasitic diseases involving parasites having a phosphodiesterase activity: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, in which: - R1 and R2, identical or different, represent a hydrogen atom or a fluorine atom; - k is an integer equal to 0 or 1; - R3 is selected from the group consisting of: ■ a phenyl ring optionally substituted ■ a 3'-N-pyridine ring optionally substituted - R4 is a group selected in the group consisting of the following groups: -NH-A-R5, -NHC(O)-R5 and the groups of formulas (II-a) to (II-c) below: The invention also relates to some new chiral tetra-hydro β-carboline derivatives.
Design, synthesis and biological activity of β-carboline-based type-5 phosphodiesterase inhibitors
Maw, Graham N.,Allerton, Charlotte M. N.,Gbekor, Eugene,Million, William A.
, p. 1425 - 1428 (2007/10/03)
The SAR of a series of β-carboline derived type 5 phosphodiesterase inhibitors has been explored and we have discovered compounds with excellent levels of PDE5 potency and selectivity over PDE6. However, the series exhibits low levels of selectivity over PDE11, a phosphodiesterase with unknown function.
