New Anthranilic Acid Based Antagonists with High Affinity and Selectivity for the Human Cholecystokinin Receptor 1 (hCCK<sub>1</sub>-R)
作者:Michela V. Pavan、Lucia Lassiani、Federico Berti、Giorgio Stefancich、Alessia Ciogli、Francesco Gasparrini、Laura Mennuni、Flora Ferrari、Chantal Escrieut、Esther Marco、Francesco Makovec、Daniel Fourmy、Antonio Varnavas
DOI:10.1021/jm200438b
日期:2011.8.25
The anthranilic acid diamides represent the most recent class of nonpeptide CCK1 receptor (CCK1-R) antagonists. Herein we describe the second phase of the anthranilic acid C-terminal optimization using nonproteinogenic amino acids containing a phenyl ring in their side chain. The Homo-Phe derivative 2 (VL-0797) enhanced 12-fold the affinity for the rat CCK1-R affinity and 15-fold for the human CCK1-R relative to the reference compound 12 (VL-0395). The eutomer of 2 (6) exhibited a nanomolar range affinity toward the human CCK1-R and was at least 400-fold selective for the CCK1-R over the CCK2-R. Molecular docking in the modeled CCK1-R and its validation by site-directed mutagenesis experiments showed that the 6 binding site overlaps that occupied by the C-terminal bioactive region of the natural agonist CCK. Owing to their interesting properties, new compounds provided by this study represent a solid basis for further advances aimed at synthesis of clinically valuable CCK1-R antagonists.