6649-84-9Relevant academic research and scientific papers
The discovery of tetrahydro-β-carbolines as inhibitors of the kinesin Eg5
Barsanti, Paul A.,Wang, Weibo,Ni, Zhi-Jie,Duhl, David,Brammeier, Nathan,Martin, Eric,Bussiere, Dirksen,Walter, Annette O.
scheme or table, p. 157 - 160 (2010/04/02)
A series of tetrahydro-β-carbolines were identified by HTS as inhibitors of the kinesin Eg5. Molecular modeling and medicinal chemistry techniques were employed to explore the SAR for this series with a focus of removing potential metabolic liabilities and improving cellular potency.
M4 agonists/5HT7 antagonists with potential as antischizophrenic drugs: Serominic compounds
Suckling, Colin J.,Murphy, John A.,Khalaf, Abedawn I.,Zhou, Sheng-ze,Lizos, Dimitris E.,van Nhien, Albert Nguyen,Yasumatsu, Hiroshi,McVie, Allan,Young, Louise C.,McCraw, Corinna,Waterman, Peter G.,Morris, Brian J.,Pratt, Judith A.,Harvey, Alan L.
, p. 2649 - 2655 (2008/02/02)
Chronic low-dose treatment of rats with the psychomimetic drug, phencyclidine, induces regionally specific metabolic and neurochemical changes in the CNS that mirror those observed in the brains of schizophrenic patients. Recent evidence suggests that drugs targeting serotoninergic and muscarinic receptors, and in particular 5-HT7 antagonists and M4 agonists, exert beneficial effects in this model of schizophrenia. Compounds that display this combined pattern of activity we refer to as serominic compounds. Based upon leads from natural product screening, we have designed and synthesised such serominic compounds, which are principally arylamidine derivatives of tetrahydroisoquinolines, and shown that they have the required serominic profile in ligand binding assays and show potential antipsychotic activity in functional assays.
