Structure-based parallel medicinal chemistry approach to improve metabolic stability of benzopyran COX-2 inhibitors
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Combination of the structure-based design and solid-phase parallel synthesis provided an integrated approach to rapidly develop the structure-activity relationship of benzopyran COX-2 inhibitors. Binding free energies predicted by free energy perturbation theory yielded good agreement with experimental results. New potent and selective lead compounds with improved metabolic properties were identified. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Synthesis and biological evaluation of indole-chalcone derivatives as β-amyloid imaging probe
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A series of chaclone derivatives containing an indole moiety were evaluated in competitive binding assays with A beta(1-42) aggregates versus [I-125]IMPY. The affinity of these compounds ranged from 4.46 to > 1008 nM, depending on the substitution on the phenyl ring. Fluorescent staining in vitro showed that one compound with a N,N-dimethylamino group intensely stained A beta plaques within brain sections of AD transgenic mice. The radioiodinated probe [I-125]-(E)-3-(1H-indol-5-yl)-1-(4-iodophenyl)prop-2-en-1-one, [I-125]4, was prepared and autoradiography in sections of brain tissue from an animal model of AD showed that it labeled A beta plaques specifically. However, experiments with normal mice indicated that [I-125]4 exhibited a low uptake into the brain in vivo (0.41% ID/g at 2 min). Additional chemical modifications of this indole-chalcone structure may lead to more useful imaging agents for detecting beta-amyloid plaques in the brains of AD patients. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.