Serine racemase (SRR) is an enzyme that produces o-serine from L-serine. D-Serine acts as an endogenous coagonist of NMDA-type glutamate receptors (NMDARs), which regulate many physiological functions. Over-activation of NMDARs induces excitotoxicity, which is observed in many neurodegenerative disorders and epilepsy states. In our previous works on the generation of SRR gene knockout (Srr-KO) mice and its protective effects against NMDA- and A beta peptide-induced neurodegeneration, we hypothesized that the regulation of NMDARs' over-activation by inhibition of SRR activity is one such therapeutic strategy to combat these disease states. In the previous study, we performed in silico screening to identify four compounds with inhibitory activities against recombinant SRR. Here, we synthesized 21 derivatives of candidate 1, one of four hit compounds, and performed screening by in vitro evaluations. The derivative 13J showed a significantly lower IC50 value in vitro, and suppressed neuronal over-activation in vivo. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
β-Glucosyltransferase in Cell Cultures of Verbesina caracasana
作者:Giuliano Delle Monache、Alberto Vitali、Giovanni Zappia、Domenico Misiti、Eszter Gacs-Baitz、Bruno Botta
DOI:10.3987/com-98-s(h)66
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Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of novel carboline-cinnamic acid hybrids as multifunctional agents for treatment of Alzheimer’s disease
Alzheimer'sdisease (AD) is a complex neurodegenerative disease with multiple pathological features. Multifunctional compounds able to simultaneously interact with several pathological components have been considered as a solution to treat the complex pathologies of neurodegenerative diseases. β-carboline and cinnamic acid have been extensively studied for their widespread biological effects in treatment
An efficient method for the synthesis of substituted cinnamic acid and ylidene malanonitriles is developed via Knoevenagel condensation of aromatic aldehydes with malonic acid and malononitrile in the presence of catalytic amounts of DABCO. This method has many advantages, such as mild reaction conditions, excellent yields, short reaction times and no furthur purification required.