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ArticleEuropean journal of medicinal chemistry2023

Neutral sphingomyelinase 2 inhibitors based on the pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidin-3-amine scaffold.

Katerina Novotna, Ajit G Thomas, Ondrej Stepanek, Brennan Murphy, Niyada Hin, Jan Skacel, Louis Mueller, Lukas Tenora, Arindom Pal, Jesse Alt and 5 more

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Article in European journal of medicinal chemistry, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 33% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. An Efficient Synthesis of 3,5-Bis-Aminated Pyrazolo[1,5-Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors at 1 institution in 4 countries.

Katerina NovotnaJohns Hopkins Drug Discovery, United States; Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic V.v.i., Prague, 166 00, Czech Republic; Department of Organic Chemistry, Charles University, Prague, 128 00, Czech Republic.
Ajit G ThomasJohns Hopkins Drug Discovery, United States.
Ondrej StepanekJohns Hopkins Drug Discovery, United States; Department of Neurology, United States.
Brennan MurphyJohns Hopkins Drug Discovery, United States; Department of Neurology, United States.
Niyada HinJohns Hopkins Drug Discovery, United States.
Jan SkacelJohns Hopkins Drug Discovery, United States.
Louis MuellerJohns Hopkins Drug Discovery, United States; Department of Neurology, United States.
Lukas TenoraJohns Hopkins Drug Discovery, United States; Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic V.v.i., Prague, 166 00, Czech Republic.
Arindom PalJohns Hopkins Drug Discovery, United States; Department of Neurology, United States.
Jesse AltJohns Hopkins Drug Discovery, United States.
Ying WuJohns Hopkins Drug Discovery, United States.
James PauleJohns Hopkins Drug Discovery, United States.
Rana RaisJohns Hopkins Drug Discovery, United States; Department of Neurology, United States; Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21205, United States.
Barbara S SlusherJohns Hopkins Drug Discovery, United States; Department of Neurology, United States; Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21205, United States.
Takashi TsukamotoJohns Hopkins Drug Discovery, United States; Department of Neurology, United States; Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21205, United States. Electronic address: ttsukamoto@jhmi.edu.
Johns Hopkins University · US

Funding

Therapeutic CoreP30MH075673 · NIMH · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Leah Helane Rubin · 2006 to 2026
$33.2M
Translational Aging Research Training ProgramT32AG058527 · NIA · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Peter M. Abadir, Esther Seunghee Oh · 2018 to 2026
$4.0M
Regulation of Exosome Secretion as a novel therapeutic approach for Alzheimer's DiseaseR01AG059799 · NIA · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI SLUSHER, BARBARA STAUCH, TSUKAMOTO, TAKASHI · 2018 to 2022
$2.4M
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG059799NIA NIH HHS T32 AG058527NIMH NIH HHS P30 MH075673
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neutral sphingomyelinase 2 (nSMase2) has gained increasing attention as a therapeutic target to regulate ceramide production in various disease conditions. Phenyl (R)-(1-(3-(3,4-dimethoxyphenyl)-2,6-dimethylimidazo[1,2-b]pyridazin-8-yl)-pyrrolidin-3-yl)carbamate (PDDC) is a submicromolar nSMase2 inhibitor and has been widely used to study the pharmacological effects of nSMase2 inhibition. Through screening of compounds containing a bicyclic 5-6 fused ring, larotrectinib containing a pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine ring was identified as a low micromolar inhibitor of nSMase2. This prompted us to investigate the pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidin-3-amine ring as a novel scaffold to replace the imidazo[1,2-b]pyridazine-8-amine ring of PDDC. A series of molecules containing a pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidin-3-amine ring were synthesized and tested for their ability to inhibit human nSMase2. Several compounds exhibited nSMase2 inhibitory potency superior to that of PDDC. Among these, N,N-dimethyl-5-morpholinopyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidin-3-amine (11j) was found to be metabolically stable in liver microsomes and orally available with a favorable brain-to-plasma ratio, demonstrating the potential of pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine ring as an effective scaffold for nSMase2 inhibition.

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AminesSphingomyelin PhosphodiesteraseCarnitineCeramidesHumansPyrenesPyrimidinesAminesCarnitineCeramidespyrenedodecanoylcarnitinePyrenesPyrimidinesSphingomyelin PhosphodiesteraseCeramideNeutral sphingomyelinase 2PhosphodiesterasePyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidin-3-amineSphingomyelin

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PMID37536209
PMCPMC10529203
OpenAlexW4385270498

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