Discovery of a Potent, Selective, and Efficacious Class of Reversible α-Ketoheterocycle Inhibitors of Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolase Effective as Analgesics
作者:Dale L. Boger、Hiroshi Miyauchi、Wu Du、Christophe Hardouin、Robert A. Fecik、Heng Cheng、Inkyu Hwang、Michael P. Hedrick、Donmienne Leung、Orlando Acevedo、Cristiano R. W. Guimarães、William L. Jorgensen、Benjamin F. Cravatt
DOI:10.1021/jm049614v
日期:2005.3.1
Herein we report the discovery of a potent, selective, and efficacious class of reversible FAAH inhibitors that produce analgesia in animal models validating a new therapeutic target for pain intervention. Key to the useful inhibitordiscovery was the routine implementation of a proteomics-wide selectivity screen against the serine hydrolase superfamily ensuring selectivity for FAAH coupled with systematic
Improved competitive inhibitors of FAAH employ an α-keto heterocyclic pharmacophore and a binding subunit having a ?-unsaturation. The α-keto heterocyclic pharmacophore and a binding subunit are attached to one another, preferably by a hydrocarbon chain. The improvement lies in the use of a heterocyclic pharmacophore selected from oxazoles, oxadiazoles, thiazoles, and thiadiazoles that have alkyl or aryl substituents at their 4 and/or 5 positions. The improved competitive inhibitors of FAAH display enhanced activity over conventional competitive inhibitors of FAAH.