Synthesis and evaluation of a difluoromethylene analogue of sphingomyelin as an inhibitor of sphingomyelinase
作者:Tsutomu Yokomatsu、Hiroaki Takechi、Takeshi Akiyama、Shiroishi Shibuya、Takaaki Kominato、Shinji Soeda、Hiroshi Shimeno
DOI:10.1016/s0960-894x(01)00179-2
日期:2001.5
A sphingomyelin analogue 2, in which the long alkenyl chain and the phosphodiester moiety of sphingomyelin were replaced by a phenyl and an isosteric difluoromethylenephosphonic acid, was prepared to evaluate its inhibitory potency to sphingomyelinase. The analogue non-competitively inhibited the neutral sphingomyelinase in bovine brain microsomes with an IC50 Of 400 muM. The compound had the ability to suppress tumor necrosis factor alpha -induced apoptosis of PC-12 neurons at a low concentration of 0.1 muM. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.