作者:István Ling、Balázs Mihalik、Lori-An Etherington、Gábor Kapus、Adrienn Pálvölgyi、Gábor Gigler、Szabolcs Kertész、Attila Gaál、Katalin Pallagi、Péter Kiricsi、Éva Szabó、Gábor Szénási、Lilla Papp、László G. Hársing、György Lévay、Michael Spedding、Jeremy J. Lambert、Delia Belelli、József Barkóczy、Balázs Volk、Gyula Simig、István Gacsályi、Ferenc A. Antoni
DOI:10.1016/j.ejphar.2015.07.005
日期:2015.10
Novel 2,3-benzodiazepine and related isoquinoline derivatives, substituted at position 1 with a 2-benzothiophenyl moiety, were synthesized to produce compounds that potently inhibited the action of GABA on heterologously expressed GABA(A) receptors containing the alpha 5 subunit (GABA(A) alpha(5)), with no apparent affinity for the benzodiazepine site. Substitutions of the benzothiophene moiety at position 4 led to compounds with drug-like properties that were putative inhibitors of extra-synaptic GABA(A) alpha(5) receptors and had substantial blood-brain barrier permeability. Initial characterization in vivo showed that 8-methyl-5-[4-(trifluoromethyl)-1-benzothiophen-2-yl]-1,9-dihydro-2H-[1,3]oxazolo[4,5-h][2,3] benzodiazepin-2-one was devoid of sedative, pro-convulsive or motor side-effects, and enhanced the performance of rats in the object recognition test. In summary, we have discovered a first-in-class GABA-site inhibitor of extra-synaptic GABA(A) alpha(5) receptors that has promising drug-like properties and warrants further development. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved