We report the synthesis of two series of compounds with 3,5-difluoromandelyl-alanyl or 3,5-difluorophenylacetyl-alanyl backbones coupled to various heterocyclic or peptidic moieties. These two series of compounds were evaluated for their inhibitory properties on β-secretase (BACE-1) enzymatic assay, a target enzyme for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathology. We found that both diastereomers obtained from the racemic mixture 7 of the coumarin derivative bearing a mandelyl moiety were the most potent BACE-1 inhibitors studied in this work (IC50 = 1 × 10−6 M). Analysis of the obtained results led to the hypothesis that introduction of a difluoromandelyl residue in place of a difluorophenylacetyl moiety may induce β-secretase inhibitory activity.
我们报告了以 3,5-二氟甲酰基丙氨酰或 3,5-二氟苯乙酰基丙氨酰为骨架、与各种杂环或肽基偶联的两个系列化合物的合成。我们评估了这两个系列的化合物对阿尔茨海默病(AD)病理靶酶 β-分泌酶(BACE-1)的抑制特性。我们发现,从带有曼地尔分子的香豆素衍生物的外消旋混合物 7 中得到的两种非对映异构体都是本研究中最有效的 BACE-1 抑制剂(IC50 = 1 × 10-6 M)。对所得结果进行分析后得出的假设是,引入二氟曼丁酰残基取代二氟苯乙酰基可能会诱导β-分泌酶抑制活性。