Discovery of novel melatonin-mydroxyquinoline hybrids as multitarget strategies for Alzheimer's disease therapy.

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that seriously affects human health, and current treatment strategies are far from meeting clinical needs. Inspired by multi-target drug design strategies, a series of novel natural products-based melatonin-hydroxyquinoline hybrids were designed and synthesized, targeting anti-oxidation and metal-chelating at the same time. Most of the compounds showed significant oxygen radical absorbance capacity and Aβ aggregation inhibition. Moreover, the compounds possess good blood-brain barrier permeability. and have a good ability to alleviate oxidative stress induced by hydrogen peroxide. and possess metal-chelating properties with the chelation ratio being 2:1. Furthermore, can significantly mitigate metal-induced Aβ aggregation. This work may provide a new multi-target treatment strategy for Alzheimer's disease.