2-<i>N</i>-Acylaminoalkylindoles: Design and Quantitative Structure−Activity Relationship Studies Leading to MT<sub>2</sub>-Selective Melatonin Antagonists
作者:Gilberto Spadoni、Cesarino Balsamini、Giuseppe Diamantini、Andrea Tontini、Giorgio Tarzia、Marco Mor、Silvia Rivara、Pier Vincenzo Plazzi、Romolo Nonno、Valeria Lucini、Marilou Pannacci、Franco Fraschini、Bojidar Michaylov Stankov
DOI:10.1021/jm001125h
日期:2001.8.1
Several indole analogues of melatonin (MLT) were obtained by moving the MLT side chain from C-3 to C-2 of the indole ring. Binding and in vitro functional assays were performed on cloned human MT1 and MT2 receptors, stably transfected in NIH3T3 cells. Quantitative structure-activity relationship studies showed that 4-methoxy-2-(N-acylaminomethyl)indoles, with a benzyl group in position 1, were selective MT2 antagonists and, in particular, N-[(1-p-chlorobenzyl-4-methoxy-1H-indol-2-yl)methyl]propanamide (12) behaved as a pure antagonist at MT1 and MT2 receptors, with a 148-fold selectivity for MT2. We present a topographical model that suggests a lipophilic group, located out of the plane of the indole ring of MLT, as the key feature of the MT2 selective antagonists.