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ArticleACS chemical neuroscience2014

Synthesis, biological evaluation, and computational studies of Tri- and tetracyclic nitrogen-bridgehead compounds as potent dual-acting AChE inhibitors and hH3 receptor antagonists.

Fouad H Darras, Steffen Pockes, Guozheng Huang, Sarah Wehle, Andrea Strasser, Hans-Joachim Wittmann, Martin Nimczick, Christoph A Sotriffer, Michael Decker

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Article in ACS chemical neuroscience, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23 citing papers in PubMed, 77 citations in OpenAlex.

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9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Fouad H DarrasLehrstuhl für Pharmazeutische und Medizinische Chemie I, Institut für Pharmazie, ‡Lehrstuhl für Pharmazeutische und Medizinische Chemie II, Institut für Pharmazie, Universität Regensburg , Universitätsstraße 31, D-93053 Regensburg, Germany.
Steffen Pockes
Guozheng Huang
Sarah Wehle
Andrea Strasser
Hans-Joachim Wittmann
Martin Nimczick
Christoph A Sotriffer
Michael Decker
University of Würzburg · DEUniversity of Regensburg · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Combination of AChE inhibiting and histamine H3 receptor antagonizing properties in a single molecule might show synergistic effects to improve cognitive deficits in Alzheimer's disease, since both pharmacological actions are able to enhance cholinergic neurotransmission in the cortex. However, whereas AChE inhibitors prevent hydrolysis of acetylcholine also peripherally, histamine H3 antagonists will raise acetylcholine levels mostly in the brain due to predominant occurrence of the receptor in the central nervous system. In this work, we designed and synthesized two novel classes of tri- and tetracyclic nitrogen-bridgehead compounds acting as dual AChE inhibitors and histamine H3 antagonists by combining the nitrogen-bridgehead moiety of novel AChE inhibitors with a second N-basic fragment based on the piperidinylpropoxy pharmacophore with different spacer lengths. Intensive structure-activity relationships (SARs) with regard to both biological targets led to compound 41 which showed balanced affinities as hAChE inhibitor with IC50 = 33.9 nM, and hH3R antagonism with Ki = 76.2 nM with greater than 200-fold selectivity over the other histamine receptor subtypes. Molecular docking studies were performed to explain the potent AChE inhibition of the target compounds and molecular dynamics studies to explain high affinity at the hH3R.

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AcetylcholinesteraseBinding SitesCholinesterase InhibitorsGTP PhosphohydrolasesHistamine H3 AntagonistsHumansMolecular Docking SimulationMolecular Dynamics SimulationMolecular StructureNitrogen CompoundsRadioligand AssayReceptors, HistamineReceptors, Histamine H1Receptors, Histamine H2Receptors, Histamine H3AcetylcholinesteraseCholinesterase InhibitorsGTP PhosphohydrolasesHistamine H3 AntagonistsNitrogen CompoundsReceptors, HistamineReceptors, Histamine H1Receptors, Histamine H2Receptors, Histamine H3

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PMID24422467
PMCPMC3963125
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