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Halder AK, Mitra S, Cordeiro MNDS. Designing multi-target drugs for the treatment of major depressive disorder. Expert Opin Drug Discov 2023; 18:643-658. [PMID: 37183604 DOI: 10.1080/17460441.2023.2214361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Major depressive disorders (MDD) pose major health burdens globally. Currently available medications have their limitations due to serious adverse effects, long latency periods as well as resistance. Considering the highly complicated pathological nature of this disorder, it has been suggested that multitarget drugs or multi-target-directed ligands (MTDLs) may provide long-term therapeutic solutions for the treatment of MDD. AREAS COVERED In the current review, recent lead design and lead modification strategies have been covered. Important investigations reported in the last ten years (2013-2022) for the pre-clinical development of MTDLs (through synthetic medicinal chemistry and biological evaluation) for the treatment of MDD were discussed as case studies to focus on the recent design strategies. The discussions are categorized based on the pharmacological targets. On the basis of these important case studies, the challenges involved in different design strategies were discussed in detail. EXPERT OPINION Even though large variations were observed in the selection of pharmacological targets, some potential biological targets (NMDA, melatonin receptors) are required to be explored extensively for the design of MTDLs. Similarly, apart from structure activity relationship (SAR), in silico techniques such as multitasking cheminformatic modelling, molecular dynamics simulation and virtual screening should be exploited to a greater extent.
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- Amit Kumar Halder
- LAQV@REQUIMTE/Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal
- Dr. B.C. Roy College of Pharmacy & Allied Health Sciences, Durgapur 713206, India
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- Dr. B.C. Roy College of Pharmacy & Allied Health Sciences, Durgapur 713206, India
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- LAQV@REQUIMTE/Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal
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Wang P, Yan F, Dong J, Wang S, Shi Y, Zhu M, Zuo Y, Ma H, Xue R, Zhai D, Song X. A multiple-step screening protocol to identify norepinephrine and dopamine reuptake inhibitors for depression. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023; 25:8341-8354. [PMID: 36880666 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp05676c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/23/2023]
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Depression severely impairs the health of people all over the world. Cognitive dysfunction due to depression has resulted in a severe economic burden to family and society induced by the reduction of social functioning of patients. Norepinephrine-dopamine reuptake inhibitors (NDRIs) targeted with the human norepinephrine transporter (hNET) and distributed with the human dopamine transporter (hDAT) simultaneously treat depression and improve cognitive function, and they effectively prevent sexual dysfunction and other side effects. Because many patients continue to poorly respond to NDRIs, it is urgent to discover novel NDRI antidepressants that do not interfere with cognitive function. The aim of this work was to selectively identify novel NDRI candidates acting against hNET and hDAT from large compound libraries by a comprehensive strategy integrating support vector machine (SVM) models, ADMET, molecular docking, in vitro binding assays, molecular dynamics simulation, and binding energy calculation. First, 6522 compounds that do not inhibit the human serotonin transporter (hSERT) were obtained by SVM models of hNET, hDAT, and non-target hSERT with similarity analyses from compound libraries. ADMET and molecular docking were then used to identify compounds that could potently bind to the hNET and hDAT with satisfactory ADMET, and 4 compounds were successfully identified. According to their docking scores and ADMET information, 3719810 was advanced for profiling by in vitro assays as a novel NDRI lead compound due to its strongest druggability and balancing activities. Encouragingly, 3719810 performed comparative activities on two targets, with Ki values of 7.32 μM for hNET and 5.23 μM for hDAT. To obtain candidates with additional activities and balance the activities of 2 targets, 5 analogs were optimized, and 2 novel scaffold compounds were successively designed. By assessment of molecular docking, molecular dynamics simulations, and binding energy calculations, 5 compounds were validated as NDRI candidates with high activities, and 4 of them performed acceptable balancing activities acting on hNET and hDAT. This work supplied promising novel NDRIs for treatment of depression with cognitive dysfunction or other related neurodegenerative disorders, and also provided a strategy for highly efficient and cost-effective identification of inhibitors for dual targets with homologous non-targets.
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- Panpan Wang
- College of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Huanghuai University, Zhumadian 463000, China.
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- College of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Huanghuai University, Zhumadian 463000, China.
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- College of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Huanghuai University, Zhumadian 463000, China.
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- College of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Huanghuai University, Zhumadian 463000, China.
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- College of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Huanghuai University, Zhumadian 463000, China.
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- College of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Huanghuai University, Zhumadian 463000, China.
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- College of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Huanghuai University, Zhumadian 463000, China.
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- College of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Huanghuai University, Zhumadian 463000, China.
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- College of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Huanghuai University, Zhumadian 463000, China.
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- College of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Huanghuai University, Zhumadian 463000, China.
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- College of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Huanghuai University, Zhumadian 463000, China.
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Yin Q, Li Z, Wu F, Ji M, Fu C, Wu X. Conjugate Addition of α‐Substituted Acyl Imidazoles to Nitroalkenes Catalyzed by Nickel Bisoxazoline and B(C6F5)3. Adv Synth Catal 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/adsc.202200476] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Rodríguez-Lavado J, Alarcón-Espósito J, Mallea M, Lorente A. A new paradigm shift in antidepressant therapy? From dual-action to multitarget-directed ligands. Curr Med Chem 2022; 29:4896-4922. [PMID: 35301942 DOI: 10.2174/0929867329666220317121551] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2021] [Revised: 01/10/2022] [Accepted: 01/15/2022] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Major Depressive Disorder is a chronic, recurring, and potentially fatal disease affecting up to 20% of the global population. Since the monoamine hypothesis was proposed more than 60 years ago, only a few relevant advances have been achieved, with very little disease course changing, from a pharmacological perspective. Moreover, since negative efficacy studies with novel molecules are frequent, many pharmaceutical companies have put new studies on hold. Fortunately, relevant clinical studies are currently being performed, and extensive striving is being developed by universities, research centers, and other public and private institutions. Depression is no longer considered a simple disease but a multifactorial one. New research fields are emerging in what could be a paradigm shift: the multitarget approach beyond monoamines. In this review, we summarize the present and the past of antidepressant drug discovery, with the aim to shed some light on the current state of the art in clinical and preclinical advances to face this increasingly devastating disease.
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- Julio Rodríguez-Lavado
- Departamento de Química Orgánica y Fisicoquímica, Facultad de Química y Ciencias Farmacéuticas, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 233, Santiago, Chile
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- Departamento de Química Orgánica y Fisicoquímica, Facultad de Química y Ciencias Farmacéuticas, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 233, Santiago, Chile
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- Departamento de Química Orgánica y Fisicoquímica, Facultad de Química y Ciencias Farmacéuticas, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 233, Santiago, Chile
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- Departamento de Química Orgánica y Fisicoquímica, Facultad de Química y Ciencias Farmacéuticas, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 233, Santiago, Chile
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Ihara M, Zhang H, Ihara MO, Kato D, Tanaka H. Proposal for fluorescence-based in vitro assay using human and zebrafish monoamine transporters to detect biological activities of antidepressants in wastewater. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2021; 770:144665. [PMID: 33513512 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144665] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2020] [Revised: 12/11/2020] [Accepted: 12/17/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Antidepressants are among the most commonly detected pharmaceuticals in the aquatic environment. As they modulate neurotransmission in nervous systems, behavioural abnormalities among aquatic species are of concern. It is possible to measure the concentrations of selected antidepressants by chemical analysis, but other non-target antidepressants and active metabolites might also be present. Here, we propose an "in vitro monoamine transporter inhibition assay" to measure the biological activity of antidepressants, particularly monoamine transporter inhibitors, in wastewater. We used APP, a fluorescent substrate for monoamine transporters, to measure the activity of wastewater extracts at inhibiting APP uptake through the human serotonin transporter (hSERT), norepinephrine transporter (hNET), and dopamine transporter, and the zebrafish SERT (zSERT). We confirmed that the assay could measure the biological activity of test antidepressants. Interestingly, the IC50 values of antidepressants (the concentration that gave a 50% reduction of APP uptake) for the zSERT were smaller than those for the hSERT. For example, IC50 value of desipramine for the zSERT was 1/200 of that for the hSERT. These results indicate that antidepressants inhibited zSERT more strongly than hSERT. Then we applied the assay to extracts of effluent from municipal wastewater treatment plants and detected biological activity of antidepressants specifically against the hSERT, hNET, and zSERT for the first time. For the hSERT, antidepressant-equivalent quantities (EQs) ranged from 2.2 × 101 to 2.5 × 102 ng-clomipramine-EQ/L. For the hNET, EQs ranged from below limit of detection to 8.2 × 101 ng-desipramine-EQ/L. For the zSERT, EQs ranged from 2.8 × 102 to 3.3 × 102 ng-duloxetine-EQ/L. The in vitro monoamine transporter inhibition assay is thus useful for measuring the biological activity of antidepressants in the aquatic environment.
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- Masaru Ihara
- Research Center for Environmental Quality Management, Kyoto University, 1-2 Yumihama, Otsu, Shiga 520-0811, Japan.
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- Research Center for Environmental Quality Management, Kyoto University, 1-2 Yumihama, Otsu, Shiga 520-0811, Japan
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- Research Center for Environmental Quality Management, Kyoto University, 1-2 Yumihama, Otsu, Shiga 520-0811, Japan
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- Research Center for Environmental Quality Management, Kyoto University, 1-2 Yumihama, Otsu, Shiga 520-0811, Japan
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- Research Center for Environmental Quality Management, Kyoto University, 1-2 Yumihama, Otsu, Shiga 520-0811, Japan
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Wang P, Jing C, Yu P, Lu M, Xu X, Pei Q, Yan F. Profiling the structural determinants of aminoketone derivatives as hNET and hDAT reuptake inhibitors by field-based QSAR based on molecular docking. Technol Health Care 2021; 29:257-273. [PMID: 33682763 PMCID: PMC8150508 DOI: 10.3233/thc-218024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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BACKGROUND Bupropion, one of the dual norepinephrine and dopamine reuptake inhibitors (NDRIs), is an aminoketone derivative performed effect in improving cognitive function for depression. However, its therapeutic effect is unsatisfactory due to poor clinical response, and there are only few derivatives in pre-clinical settings. OBJECTIVE This work attempted to elucidate the essential structural features for the activity and designed a series of novel derivatives with good inhibitive ability, pharmacokinetic and medicinal chemistry properties. METHODS The field-based QSAR of aminoketone derivatives of two targets were established based on docking poses, and the essential structural properties for designing novel compounds were supplied by comparing contour maps. RESULTS The selected two models performed good predictability and reliability with R2 of 0.8479 and 0.8040 for training set, Q2 of 0.7352 and 0.6266 for test set respectively, and the designed 29 novel derivatives performed no less than the highest active compound with good ADME/T pharmacokinetic properties and medicinal chemistry friendliness. CONCLUSIONS Bulky groups in R1, bulky groups with weak hydrophobicity in R3, and potent hydrophobic substituted group with electronegative in R2 from contour maps provided important insights for assessing and designing 29 novel NDRIs, which were considered as candidates for cognitive dysfunction with depression or other related neurodegenerative disorders.
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- Panpan Wang
- Corresponding author: Panpan Wang, College of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Huanghuai University, Zhumadian, Henan, China. Tel.: +86 396 2853411; Fax: +86 396 2853411; E-mail:
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Loskutova NL, Shvydkiy NV, Nelyubina YV, Perekalin DS. Insertion of carbenoids into X-H bonds catalyzed by the cyclobutadiene rhodium complexes. J Organomet Chem 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jorganchem.2017.08.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Tahara YK, Michino M, Ito M, Kanyiva KS, Shibata T. Enantioselective sp(3) C-H alkylation of γ-butyrolactam by a chiral Ir(I) catalyst for the synthesis of 4-substituted γ-amino acids. Chem Commun (Camb) 2015; 51:16660-3. [PMID: 26426546 DOI: 10.1039/c5cc07102j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Ir-catalyzed sp(3) C-H alkylation of γ-butyrolactam with alkenes was used for the highly enantioselective synthesis of 5-substituted γ-lactams, which were readily converted into chiral 4-substituted γ-amino acids. A broad scope of alkenes was amenable as coupling partners, and the alkylated product using acrylate could be transformed into the key intermediate of pyrrolam A synthesis.
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- Yu-ki Tahara
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Okubo, Shinjuku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan.
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Hlekhlai S, Samakkanad N, Sawangphon T, Pohmakotr M, Reutrakul V, Soorukram D, Jaipetch T, Kuhakarn C. Oxone®/KI-Mediated Nitration of Alkenes and Alkynes: Synthesis of Nitro- and β-Iodonitro-Substituted Alkenes. European J Org Chem 2014. [DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.201402750] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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