Discovery of novel indole derivatives as potent and selective inhibitors of proMMP-9 activation
作者:Rie Nishikawa-Shimono、Motoi Kuwabara、Sho Fujisaki、Daisuke Matsuda、Mayumi Endo、Masafumi Kamitani、Aya Futamura、Yusaku Nomura、Toru Yamaguchi-Sasaki、Tetsuya Yabuuchi、Chitose Yamaguchi、Nozomi Tanaka-Yamamoto、Shunya Satake、Kumi Abe-Sato、Kosuke Funayama、Mayumi Sakata、Shinji Takahashi、Koga Hirano、Takuya Fukunaga、Yoriko Uozumi、Sayaka Kato、Yunoshin Tamura、Tomoaki Nakamori、Masashi Mima、Chiemi Mishima-Tsumagari、Dai Nozawa、Yudai Imai、Taiji Asami
DOI:10.1016/j.bmcl.2023.129541
日期:2024.1
synthesis, and in vitro studies of novel indole derivatives as inhibitors of proMMP-9 activation. High-throughput screening (HTS) of our internal compound library and subsequent merging of hit compounds 1 and 2 provided compound 4 as a bona-fide lead. X-ray structure-based design and subsequent lead optimization led to the discovery of compound 33, a highly potent and selective inhibitor of proMMP-9 activation
基质金属蛋白酶-9 (MMP-9) 是一种分泌型锌依赖性内肽酶,可降解神经元的细胞外基质和基底膜,然后通过重塑细胞外基质来促进突触可塑性。抑制 MMP-9 活性具有治疗神经退行性疾病(例如脆性 X 综合征)的潜力。本文报道了新型吲哚衍生物作为 proMMP-9 激活抑制剂的分子设计、合成和体外研究。我们的内部化合物库的高通量筛选 (HTS) 以及随后对命中化合物1和2的合并提供了化合物4作为真正的先导化合物。基于 X 射线结构的设计和随后的先导化合物优化导致了化合物33的发现,它是一种高效、选择性的 proMMP-9 激活抑制剂。