Pyrimidine-2,4,6-trione Derivatives and Their Inhibition of Mutant SOD1-Dependent Protein Aggregation. Toward a Treatment for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

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• 作者：Guoyao Xia ; Radhia Benmohamed ; Jinho Kim ; Anthony C. Arvanites ; Richard I. Morimoto ; Robert J. Ferrante ; Donald R. Kirsch ; Richard B. Silverman
• 刊名：Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
• 出版年：2011
• 出版时间：April 14, 2011
• 年：2011
• 卷：54
• 期：7
• 页码：2409-2421
• 全文大小：1161K
• 年卷期：v.54,no.7(April 14, 2011)
• ISSN：1520-4804

文摘

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease characterized by the progressive loss of motor neurons, leading to muscle weakness, paralysis, and death, most often from respiratory failure. The only FDA-approved drug for the treatment of ALS, riluzole, only extends the median survival in patients by 2鈭? months. There is an urgent need for novel therapeutic strategies for this devastating disease. Using a high-throughput screening assay targeting an ALS cultured cell model (PC12-G93A-YFP cell line), we previously identified three chemotypes that were neuroprotective. We present a further detailed analysis of one promising scaffold from that group, pyrimidine-2,4,6-triones (PYTs), characterizing a number of PYT analogues using SAR and ADME. The PYT compounds show good potency, superior ADME data, low toxicity, brain penetration, and excellent oral bioavailability. Compounds from this series show 100% efficacy in the protection assay with a good correlation in activity between the protection and protein aggregation assays. The modifications of the PYT scaffold presented here suggest that this chemical structure may be a novel drug candidate scaffold for use in clinical trials in ALS.