Cosimelli Barbara, Greco Giovanni, Laneri Sonia, Novellino Ettore, Sacchi Antonia, Collina Simona, Rossi Daniela, Cosconati Sandro, Barresi Elisabetta, Taliani Sabrina, Trincavelli Maria Letizia, Martini Claudia
Dipartimento di Farmacia , Università di Napoli "Federico II" , Via Domenico Montesano 49 , 80131 Naples , Italy . Email:
Dipartimento del Farmaco , Università di Pavia , Viale Torquato Taramelli 12 , 27100 Pavia , Italy.
Medchemcomm. 2017 Nov 9;9(1):81-86. doi: 10.1039/c7md00375g. eCollection 2018 Jan 1.
Three A adenosine receptor (AR) antagonists () selected from 4-acylamino-6-alkyloxy-2-alkylthiopyrimidines previously investigated by us were modified by inserting a methyl group on their ether or thioether side chains. These compounds gave us the chance to evaluate whether their higher lipophilicity, reduced conformational freedom and chirality might improve the potency towards the A AR. Racemic mixtures of were resolved using chiral HPLC methods and the absolute configurations of the enantiomers were assigned by chiroptical spectroscopy and density functional theory calculations. We measured the affinity for human A, A, A and A ARs of the racemic mixtures and the pure enantiomers of by radioligand competition binding experiments. Cell-based assays of the most potent enantiomers confirmed their A AR antagonist profiles. Our research led to the identification of ()- with high potency (0.5 nM) and selectivity as an A AR antagonist. Moreover we built a docking-model useful to design new pyrimidine derivatives.
我们从先前研究过的4-酰基氨基-6-烷氧基-2-烷基硫代嘧啶中选择了三种A腺苷受体(AR)拮抗剂,通过在其醚或硫醚侧链上插入一个甲基进行修饰。这些化合物使我们有机会评估其更高的亲脂性、降低的构象自由度和手性是否可能提高对A AR的效力。使用手性高效液相色谱法拆分了的外消旋混合物,并通过旋光光谱和密度泛函理论计算确定了对映体的绝对构型。我们通过放射性配体竞争结合实验测量了外消旋混合物和的纯对映体对人A、A、A和A ARs的亲和力。对最有效的对映体进行的基于细胞的测定证实了它们的A AR拮抗剂特征。我们的研究导致鉴定出()-作为一种A AR拮抗剂具有高效力(0.5 nM)和选择性。此外,我们构建了一个对接模型,可用于设计新的嘧啶衍生物。