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Synthesis and biological evaluation of new potential inhibitors of N-acylethanolamine hydrolyzing acid amidase
Saturnino, Carmela,Petrosino, Stefania,Ligresti, Alessia,Palladino, Chiara,Martino, Giovanni De,Bisogno, Tiziana,Marzo, Vincenzo Di
supporting information; experimental part, p. 1210 - 1213 (2010/05/19)
N-Acylethanolamines, including N-palmitoyl-ethanolamine (PEA), are hydrolyzed to the corresponding fatty acids and ethanolamine by fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH). Recently, N-acylethanolamine-hydrolyzing acid amidase (NAAA) was identified as being able to specifically hydrolyze PEA. In order to find selective and effective inhibitors of this enzyme, we synthesized and screened several amides, retroamides, esters, retroesters and carbamates of palmitic acid (1-21) and esters with C15 and C17 alkyl chains (22-27). Cyclopentylhexadecanoate (13) exhibited the highest inhibitory activity on NAAA (IC50 = 10.0 μM), without inhibiting FAAH up to 50 μM. Compound 13 may become a useful template to design new NAAA inhibitors.
Smectogenic Salts Formed by Combination of Alkyl p-Aminobenzoates and p-Ethyl- or p-Chlorobenzenesulfonic Acid
Matsunaga, Y.,Sakamoto S.,Togashi, A.,Tsujimoto, M.
, p. 161 - 166 (2007/10/02)
Two series of smectogenic salts were obtained by combining alkyl p-aminobenzoates with p-ethyl- and p-chlorobenzenesulfonic acids, respectively.The shortest ester alkyl chain required to generate a smectic A phase is nonyl when the former sulfonic acid is employed but the chain may be as short as butyl when the latter is employed.The smectic A-isotropic transition temperature in the second series is significantly higher than that in the first series, indicating that the terminal substituent on the anion is as crucial as that in non-ionic mesogens in determining the mesophase stability. - Keywords: Smectic, alkyl p-aminobenzoates, benzenesulfonates
