Bis-styrylpyridine and bis-styrylbenzene derivatives as inhibitors for Aβ fibril formation
作者:Seong Rim Byeon、Ji Hoon Lee、Ji-Hoon Sohn、Dong Chan Kim、Kye Jung Shin、Kyung Ho Yoo、Inhee Mook-Jung、Won Koo Lee、Dong Jin Kim
DOI:10.1016/j.bmcl.2006.10.090
日期:2007.3
New bis-styrylpyridine and bis-styrylbenzene derivatives were designed and synthesized. These 34 compounds were evaluated by A beta fibril formation inhibitory assay using thioflavin T as a dye (named ThT assay). Most of them showed excellent inhibitory activities for A beta fibril formation at IC50 of 0.1-2.7 mu M which is comparable to curcumin (IC50 of 0.8 mu M). Among them, nine compounds were screened for their cytotoxicities on HT-22 cell by MTT assay at 1, 10, and 50 mu M. In particular, 1-7 and II-2 exhibited the best combination of inhibitory activity and compound cytotoxicity. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Effect of Cavity Size on Supramolecular Stability
作者:B. J. Whitlock、H. W. Whitlock
DOI:10.1021/ja00085a009
日期:1994.3
We describe the synthesis of a boxlike cyclophane 1, its complexation with p-nitrophenol, the temperature dependence of the H-1 NMR spectra of the 1:p-nitrophenol complex, and the effect of solvent on complexation. Cyclophane 1 was designed to test our previous observations on the effect of cavity size and pi-hydrogen bonds in stabilizing host-guest complexes in nonpolar solvents. It exhibits an association constant with p-nitrophenol in excess of 400 000 M-1 in CDCl3. The high stability of the complex is paralleled by slow exchange between free and complexed cyclophane. The axial spinning of the xylene units of the host is slow in the complex but fast in the free host. It is shown that the rate-determining step for xylene spinning is dissociation of the complex. The two guest protons ortho to the nitro group in the phenol are distinct in the complex; their interconversion requires its dissociation. Both K(assoc) and k(exch) are dependent on the solvent. Solvents that are ''big'' (chloroform and tetrachloroethane) exhibit large K(assoc) values and slow exchange, while small'' solvents (dichloromethane and 1,2-dichloroethane) exhibit both smaller K(assoc) values and faster exchange. These solvent effects are interpreted in terms of a binding model involving displacement of one intracavity species by another.