64209-99-0Relevant articles and documents
Design, microwave-assisted synthesis, biological evaluation and molecular modeling studies of 4-phenylthiazoles as potent fatty acid amide hydrolase inhibitors
Wilt, Stephanie R.,Rodriguez, Mark,Le, Thanh N. H.,Baltodano, Emily V.,Salas, Adrian,Pecic, Stevan
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Endocannabinoids, anandamide (AEA) and 2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG), are endogenous lipids that activate cannabinoid receptors. Activation of these receptors produces anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects. Fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) is a membrane enzyme that hydrolases endocannabinoids; thus, inhibition of FAAH represents an attractive approach to develop new therapeutics for treating inflammation and pain. Previously, potent rat FAAH inhibitors containing 2-naphthyl- and 4-phenylthiazole scaffolds were identified, but up to the present time, very little structure–activity relationship studies have been performed on these moieties. We designed and synthesized several analogs containing these structural motifs and evaluated their inhibition potencies against human FAAH enzyme. In addition, we built and validated a homology model of human FAAH enzyme and performed docking experiments. We identified several inhibitors in the low nanomolar range and calculated their ADME predicted values. These FAAH inhibitors represent promising drug candidates for future preclinical in vivo studies.
Discovery of amide replacements that improve activity and metabolic stability of a bis-amide smoothened antagonist hit
Brown, Matthew L.,Aaron, Wade,Austin, Richard J.,Chong, Angela,Huang, Tom,Jiang, Ben,Kaizerman, Jacob A.,Lee, Gary,Lucas, Brian S.,McMinn, Dustin L.,Orf, Jessica,Rong, Minqing,Toteva, Maria M.,Xu, Guifen,Ye, Qiuping,Zhong, Wendy,Degraffenreid, Michael R.,Wickramasinghe, Dineli,Powers, Jay P.,Hungate, Randall,Johnson, Michael G.
scheme or table, p. 5206 - 5209 (2011/10/09)
A bis-amide antagonist of Smoothened, a seven-transmembrane receptor in the Hedgehog signaling pathway, was discovered via high throughput screening. In vitro and in vivo experiments demonstrated that the bis-amide was susceptible to N-acyl transferase mediated amide scission. Several bioisosteric replacements of the labile amide that maintained in vitro potency were identified and shown to be metabolically stable in vitro and in vivo.
