Bivalent β-Carbolines as Potential Multitarget Anti-Alzheimer Agents
摘要:
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a prevalent neurodegenerative disorder with multifactorial causes that requires multitargeted treatment. Inhibitors of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) improve cholinergic signaling in the central nervous system and thus AChE inhibitors are well established in the therapy of AD to improve memory disturbances and other cognitive symptoms. On the other hand, AD patients benefit from reduction of pathologic glutamate-induced, Ca2+-mediated excitotoxicity by the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NR) antagonist memantine. New drugs that simultaneously affect both cholinergic transmission and glutamate-induced excitotoxicity may further improve AD treatment. While connecting beta-carboline units by alkylene spacers in two different series of compounds and subsequent evaluation of their AChE/BChE-inhibitory potential, we found that several of these bivalent beta-carbolines were potent NR blockers. The most promising compound was a N-9-homobivalent beta-carboline with a nonylene spacer, which displayed IC50 values of 0.5 nM for AChE, 5.7 nM for BChE, and 1.4 mu M for NR, respectively.
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a prevalent neurodegenerative disorder with multifactorial causes that requires multitargeted treatment. Inhibitors of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) improve cholinergic signaling in the central nervous system and thus AChE inhibitors are well established in the therapy of AD to improve memory disturbances and other cognitive symptoms. On the other hand, AD patients benefit from reduction of pathologic glutamate-induced, Ca2+-mediated excitotoxicity by the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NR) antagonist memantine. New drugs that simultaneously affect both cholinergic transmission and glutamate-induced excitotoxicity may further improve AD treatment. While connecting beta-carboline units by alkylene spacers in two different series of compounds and subsequent evaluation of their AChE/BChE-inhibitory potential, we found that several of these bivalent beta-carbolines were potent NR blockers. The most promising compound was a N-9-homobivalent beta-carboline with a nonylene spacer, which displayed IC50 values of 0.5 nM for AChE, 5.7 nM for BChE, and 1.4 mu M for NR, respectively.
Evaluation of Homobivalent Carbolines as Designed Multiple Ligands for the Treatment of Neurodegenerative Disorders
Neurodegenerative diseases represent a challenge for biomedical research due to their high prevalence and lack of mechanism-based treatments. Because of the complex pathology of neurodegenerative disorders, multifunctional drugs have been increasingly recognized as potential treatments. We identified homobivalent gamma-carbolinium salts as potent inihitors of both cholinesterases, N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors, and monoamine oxidases. Homobivalent gamma-carbolines displayed similar structure activity relationships on all tested targets and may present promising designed multiple ligands for the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders.