Synthesis, structural analysis, and biological evaluation of thioxoquinazoline derivatives as phosphodiesterase 7 inhibitors.
PDE7 inhibitors regulate pro-inflammatory and immune T-cell functions, and are a potentially novel class of drugs especially useful in the treatment of a wide variety of immune and inflammatory disorders. Starting from our lead family of thioxoquinazolines, we designed, synthesized, and characterized a novel series of thioxoquinazoline derivatives. Many of these compounds showed inhibitory potencies at sub-micromolar levels against the catalytic domain of PDE7A1 and at the micromolar level against PDE4D2. Cell-based studies showed that these compounds not only increased intracellular cAMP levels, but also had interesting anti-inflammatory properties within a therapeutic window. The in silico data predict that these compounds are capable of the crossing the blood-brain barrier. The X-ray crystal structure of the PDE7A1 catalytic domain in complex with compound 15 at a resolution of 2.4 A demonstrated that hydrophobic interactions at the active site pocket are a key feature. This structure, together with molecular modeling, provides insight into the selectivity of the PDE inhibitors and a template for the discovery of new PDE7 or PDE7/PDE4 dual inhibitors.
Castaño
Tania
T
Instituto de Química Médica (CSIC), Juan de la Cierva 3, 28006 Madrid, Spain.
Wang
Huanchen
H
Campillo
Nuria E
NE
Ballester
Sara
S
González-García
Coral
C
Hernández
Javier
J
Pérez
Concepción
C
Cuenca
Jimena
J
Pérez-Castillo
Ana
A
Martínez
Ana
A
Huertas
Oscar
O
Gelpí
José Luis
JL
Luque
F Javier
FJ
Ke
Hengming
H
Gil
Carmen
C
D000818:Animals; D000893:Anti-Inflammatory Agents / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology; D020134:Catalytic Domain; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D000242:Cyclic AMP / Q000378:metabolism; D054703:Cyclic Nucleotide Phosphodiesterases, Type 4 / Q000378:metabolism; D054708:Cyclic Nucleotide Phosphodiesterases, Type 7 / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors* / Q000378:metabolism; D015195:Drug Design; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D058988:Phosphodiesterase 4 Inhibitors; D010726:Phosphodiesterase Inhibitors / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology; D011799:Quinazolines / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000494:pharmacology; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship
D000893:Anti-Inflammatory Agents; D058988:Phosphodiesterase 4 Inhibitors; D010726:Phosphodiesterase Inhibitors; D011799:Quinazolines; D000242:Cyclic AMP; D054703:Cyclic Nucleotide Phosphodiesterases, Type 4; D054708:Cyclic Nucleotide Phosphodiesterases, Type 7