作者:Nicolas Pietrancosta、Albane Kessler、Franck-Cyril Favre-Besse、Nicolas Triballeau、Thomas Quentin、Bruno Giros、Salah El Mestikawy、Francine C. Acher
DOI:10.1016/j.bmc.2010.06.069
日期:2010.9
Vesicular glutamate transporters (VGLUTs) allow the loading of presynaptic glutamate vesicles and thus play a critical role in glutamatergic synaptic transmission. Rose Bengal (RB) is the most potent known VGLUT inhibitor (K-i 25 nM); therefore we designed, synthesized and tested in brain preparations, a series of analogs based on this scaffold. We showed that among the two tautomers of RB, the carboxylic and not the lactonic form is active against VGLUTs and generated a pharmacophore model to determine the minimal structure requirements. We also tested RB specificity in other neurotransmitter uptake systems. RB proved to potently inhibit VMAT (K-i 64 nM) but weakly VACHT (K-i > 9.7 mu M) and may be a useful tool in glutamate/acetylcholine co-transmission studies. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.