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Confer MP, Dixon DA. Acid Gas Capture by Nitrogen Heterocycle Ring Expansion. J Phys Chem A 2023; 127:10171-10183. [PMID: 37991507 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.3c06094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2023]
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Acid gases including CO2, OCS, CS2, and SO2 are emitted by industrial processes such as natural gas production or power plants, leading to the formation of acid rain and contributing to global warming as greenhouse gases. An important technological challenge is to capture acid gases and transform them into useful products. The capture of CO2, CS2, SO2, and OCS by ring expansion of saturated and unsaturated substituted nitrogen-strained ring heterocycles was computationally investigated at the G3(MP2) level. The effects of fluorine, methyl, and phenyl substituents on N and/or C were explored. The reactions for the capture CO2, CS2, SO2, and OCS by 3- and 4-membered N-heterocycles are exothermic, whereas ring expansion reactions with 5-membered rings are thermodynamically unfavorable. Incorporation of an OCS into the ring leads to the amide product being thermodynamically favored over the thioamide. CS2 and OCS capture reactions are more exothermic and exergonic than the corresponding CO2 and SO2 capture reactions due to bond dissociation enthalpy differences. Selected reaction energy barriers were calculated and correlated with the reaction thermodynamics for a given acid gas. The barriers are highest for CO2 and OCS and lowest for CS2 and SO2. The ability of a ring to participate in acid gas capture via ring expansion is correlated to ring strain energy but is not wholly dependent upon it. The expanded N-heterocycles produced by acid gas capture should be polymerizable, allowing for upcycling of these materials.
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- Matthew P Confer
- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487, United States
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Šachlevičiūtė U, Gonzalez G, Kvasnicová M, Štěpánková Š, Kleizienė N, Bieliauskas A, Zatloukal M, Strnad M, Sløk FA, Kvasnica M, Šačkus A, Žukauskaitė A. Synthesis and neuroprotective activity of 3-aryl-3-azetidinyl acetic acid methyl ester derivatives. Arch Pharm (Weinheim) 2023; 356:e2300378. [PMID: 37797174 DOI: 10.1002/ardp.202300378] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2023] [Revised: 09/14/2023] [Accepted: 09/15/2023] [Indexed: 10/07/2023]
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A library of 3-aryl-3-azetidinyl acetic acid methyl ester derivatives was prepared from N-Boc-3-azetidinone employing the Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction, rhodium(I)-catalyzed conjugate addition of arylboronic acids, and subsequent elaborations to obtain N-unprotected hydrochlorides, N-alkylated and N-acylated azetidine derivatives. The compounds were evaluated for acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) inhibitory activity, revealing several derivatives to possess AChE inhibition comparable to that of the AChE inhibitor rivastigmine. The binding mode of the AChE inhibitor donepezil and selected active compounds 26 and 27 within the active site of AChE was studied using molecular docking. Furthermore, the neuroprotective activity of the prepared compounds was evaluated in models associated with Parkinson's disease (salsolinol-induced) and aspects of Alzheimer's disease (glutamate-induced oxidative damage). Compound 28 showed the highest neuroprotective effect in both salsolinol- and glutamate-induced neurodegeneration models, and its protective effect in the glutamate model was revealed to be driven by a reduction in oxidative stress and caspase-3/7 activity.
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- Urtė Šachlevičiūtė
- Institute of Synthetic Chemistry, Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas, Lithuania
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- Department of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Palacký University Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic
- Department of Neurology, University Hospital Olomouc and Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Palacký University Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Department of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Palacký University Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Department of Biological and Biochemical Sciences, Faculty of Chemical Technology, University of Pardubice, Pardubice, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Synthetic Chemistry, Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas, Lithuania
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- Institute of Synthetic Chemistry, Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas, Lithuania
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- Department of Chemical Biology, Faculty of Science, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Growth Regulators, Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences & Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Growth Regulators, Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences & Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Synthetic Chemistry, Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas, Lithuania
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- Department of Chemical Biology, Faculty of Science, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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Diastereoselective sulfa-Michael reactions controlled by a biomass-derived chiral auxiliary. Tetrahedron 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2019.05.051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Bechi B, Amantini D, Tintori C, Botta M, Fabio RD. Stereocontrolled synthesis of 5-azaspiro[2.3]hexane derivatives as conformationally "frozen" analogues of L-glutamic acid. Beilstein J Org Chem 2014; 10:1114-20. [PMID: 24991261 PMCID: PMC4077356 DOI: 10.3762/bjoc.10.110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2014] [Accepted: 04/04/2014] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Several strategies aimed to “freeze” natural amino acids into more constrained analogues have been developed with the aim of enhancing in vitro potency/selectivity and, more in general, drugability properties. The case of L-glutamic acid (L-Glu, 1) is of particular importance since it is the primary excitatory neurotransmitter in the mammalian central nervous system (CNS) and plays a critical role in a wide range of disorders like schizophrenia, depression, neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s and in the identification of new potent and selective ligands of ionotropic and metabotropic glutamate receptors (GluRs). To this aim, bicycle compound Ib was designed and synthesised from D-serine as novel [2.3]-spiro analogue of L-Glu. This frozen amino acid derivative was designed to further limit the rotation around the C3–C4 bond present in the azetidine derivative Ia by incorporating an appropriate spiro moiety. The cyclopropyl moiety was introduced by a diastereoselective rhodium catalyzed cyclopropanation reaction.
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- Beatrice Bechi
- Università degli Studi di Siena, Dipartimento Farmaco Chimico Tecnologico, Via A. Moro 2, 53100, Siena, Italy ; Present address: Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, School of Chemistry, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
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- Neurosciences Centre of Excellence for Drug Discovery, GlaxoSmithKline Medicines Research Centre, Via A. Fleming 4, 37135, Verona, Italy ; Present address: Galapagos SASU, 102 avenue Gaston Roussel, 93230 Romainville, France
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- Università degli Studi di Siena, Dipartimento Farmaco Chimico Tecnologico, Via A. Moro 2, 53100, Siena, Italy
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- Università degli Studi di Siena, Dipartimento Farmaco Chimico Tecnologico, Via A. Moro 2, 53100, Siena, Italy
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- Neurosciences Centre of Excellence for Drug Discovery, GlaxoSmithKline Medicines Research Centre, Via A. Fleming 4, 37135, Verona, Italy ; Present address: Drug Design and Discovery, Aptuit S.r.l., Via A. Fleming 4, 37135 Verona, Italy
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Double asymmetric induction as a mechanistic probe: the doubly diastereoselective conjugate addition of enantiopure lithium amides to enantiopure α,β-unsaturated esters and enantiopure α,β-unsaturated hydroxamates. Tetrahedron 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2011.05.102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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On the path from chemistry to neuroscience: early explorations in chemical medicine under the mentorship of Dr. Erminio Costa, a neuroscientist with a big brain and a bigger heart. Pharmacol Res 2011; 64:327-9. [PMID: 21708253 DOI: 10.1016/j.phrs.2011.05.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2011] [Revised: 03/07/2011] [Accepted: 03/10/2011] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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In this short note in tribute to Dr. Erminio Costa, I reflect upon the sabbatical period that I spent with him during his early years at the Fidia-Georgetown Institute for the Neurosciences [FGIN] at the Georgetown University Medical Center. I detail some of the interesting projects that we were involved in at that time, that led us to create strong bridges between chemistry and the neurosciences, and that led in turn to the discovery of various classes of interesting molecular tools such as the peripheral benzodiazepine receptor ligand FGIN-1-27.
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Burtoloso ACB, Correia CRD. Stereoselective synthesis of azetidine-derived glutamate and aspartate analogues from chiral azetidin-3-ones. Tetrahedron 2008. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2008.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Brandi A, Cicchi S, Cordero FM. Novel Syntheses of Azetidines and Azetidinones. Chem Rev 2008; 108:3988-4035. [DOI: 10.1021/cr800325e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 395] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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- Alberto Brandi
- Dipartimento di Chimica Organica “Ugo Schiff”, Laboratorio di Progettazione, Sintesi e Studio di Eterocicli Biologicamente Attivi - HeteroBioLab, Università degli Studi di Firenze, via della Lastruccia 13, 50019 Sesto F.no (FI), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica Organica “Ugo Schiff”, Laboratorio di Progettazione, Sintesi e Studio di Eterocicli Biologicamente Attivi - HeteroBioLab, Università degli Studi di Firenze, via della Lastruccia 13, 50019 Sesto F.no (FI), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica Organica “Ugo Schiff”, Laboratorio di Progettazione, Sintesi e Studio di Eterocicli Biologicamente Attivi - HeteroBioLab, Università degli Studi di Firenze, via della Lastruccia 13, 50019 Sesto F.no (FI), Italy
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Tiecco M, Testaferri L, Temperini A, Terlizzi R, Bagnoli L, Marini F, Santi C. Stereocontrolled synthesis of substituted N-arenesulfonyl azetidines from γ-(phenylseleno)alkyl arylsulfonamides. Org Biomol Chem 2007; 5:3510-9. [DOI: 10.1039/b712861d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Couty F, Evano G. AZETIDINE-2-CARBOXYLIC ACID. FROM LILY OF THE VALLEY TO KEY PHARMACEUTICALS. A JUBILEE REVIEW. ORG PREP PROCED INT 2006. [DOI: 10.1080/00304940609356436] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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de Figueiredo RM, Fröhlich R, Christmann M. N,N‘-Carbonyldiimidazole-Mediated Cyclization of Amino Alcohols to Substituted Azetidines and Other N-Heterocycles. J Org Chem 2006; 71:4147-54. [PMID: 16709054 DOI: 10.1021/jo060130b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Amino alcohols are important synthons for N-heterocycles. We have developed an efficient method to activate hydroxyl groups, which avoids the use of toxic reagents and tolerates a wide variety of functional groups. Our strategy has been applied to the synthesis of functionalized p-methoxyphenyl-protected azetidines, pyrrolidines, and piperidines. The required amino alcohols were synthesized according to an optimized proline-catalyzed Mannich protocol. An azetidine analogue of ezetimibe was synthesized to demonstrate the potential for the synthesis of drug-like molecules.
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Ziemińska E, Stafiej A, Łazarewicz JW. Role of group I metabotropic glutamate receptors and NMDA receptors in homocysteine-evoked acute neurodegeneration of cultured cerebellar granule neurones. Neurochem Int 2003; 43:481-92. [PMID: 12742095 DOI: 10.1016/s0197-0186(03)00038-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Hyperhomocysteinemia is a risk factor in neurodegeneration. It has been suggested that apart from disturbances in methylation processes, the mechanisms of this effect may include excitotoxicity mediated by the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors. In this study we demonstrate that apart from NMDA receptors, also group I metabotropic glutamate receptors participate in acute homocysteine (Hcy)-induced neurotoxicity in cultured rat cerebellar granule neurones. Primary neuronal cultures were incubated for 30 min in the Mg(2+)-free ionic medium containing homocysteine and other ligands, and neurodegenerative changes were assessed 24h later using propidium iodide staining. D,L-Homocysteine given alone appeared to be a weak neurotoxin, with EC(50) of 17.4mM, whereas EC(50) for L-glutamate was 0.17 mM. Addition of 50 microM glycine enhanced homocysteine neurotoxicity, and only that portion of neurotoxicity was abolished by 0.5 microM MK-801, an uncompetitive NMDA receptor antagonist. The net stimulation of 45Ca uptake by granule cells incubated in the presence of 25 mM D,L-homocysteine with 50 microM glycine was only 3% of the net uptake evoked by 1mM glutamate. Application of an antagonist of group I metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs) LY367385 at 25 and 250 microM concentrations, induced a dose-dependent partial neuroprotection, whereas given together with MK-801 completely prevented neurotoxicity. In the absence of glycine, LY367385 and MK-801 given alone failed to induce neuroprotection, while applied together completely prevented homocysteine neurotoxicity. Agonist of group I mGluRs, 10 trans-azetidine-2,3-dicarboxylic acid (t-ADA) induced significant neurotoxicity. This study shows for the first time that acute homocysteine-induced neurotoxicity is mediated both by group I mGluRs and NMDA receptors, and is not accompanied by massive influx of extracellular Ca(2+) to neurones.
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- Elzbieta Ziemińska
- Department of Neurochemistry, Medical Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, 5 Pawińskiego Street, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland
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Lea PM, Faden AI. Traumatic brain injury: developmental differences in glutamate receptor response and the impact on treatment. MENTAL RETARDATION AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES RESEARCH REVIEWS 2002; 7:235-48. [PMID: 11754517 DOI: 10.1002/mrdd.1033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Perinatal brain injury following trauma, hypoxia, and/or ischemia represents a substantial cause of pediatric disabilities including mental retardation. Such injuries lead to neuronal cell death through either necrosis or apoptosis. Numerous in vivo and in vitro studies implicate ionotropic (iGluRs) and metabotropic (mGluRs) glutamate receptors in the modulation of such cell death. Expression of glutamate receptors changes as a function of developmental age, with substantial implications for understanding mechanisms of post-injury cell death and its potential treatment. Recent findings suggest that the developing brain is more susceptible to apoptosis after injury and that such caspase mediated cell death may be exacerbated by treatment with N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonists. Moreover, group I metabotropic glutamate receptors appear to have opposite effects on necrotic and apoptotic cell death. Understanding the relative roles of glutamate receptors in post-traumatic or post-ischemic cell death as a function of developmental age may lead to novel targeted approaches to the treatment of pediatric brain injury.
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- P M Lea
- Department of Neuroscience, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
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Agami C, Couty F, Evano G. A straightforward synthesis of enantiopure 2-cyano azetidines from β-amino alcohols. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2002. [DOI: 10.1016/s0957-4166(02)00076-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Guanti G, Riva R. Synthesis of chiral non-racemic azetidines by lipase-catalysed acetylations and their transformation into amino alcohols: precursors of chiral catalysts. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2001. [DOI: 10.1016/s0957-4166(01)00077-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Sistiaga A, Sánchez-Prieto J. Protein phosphatase 2B inhibitors mimic the action of arachidonic acid and prolong the facilitation of glutamate release by group I mGlu receptors. Neuropharmacology 2000; 39:1544-53. [PMID: 10854899 DOI: 10.1016/s0028-3908(00)00034-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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We have addressed the role of arachidonic acid in the facilitation of glutamate release by group I metabotropic glutamate (mGlu) receptors. The activation of these receptors with the specific agonist 3,5-dihydroxyphenylglycine (DHPG) failed to enhance the cumulative Ca(2+)-dependent release of glutamate evoked by a 5 min depolarization with 4-aminopyridine, in the absence but not in the presence of arachidonic acid. However, DHPG, in the absence of arachidonic acid, transiently enhanced diacylglycerol levels, transiently potentiated 4AP-evoked depolarization, and significantly enhanced the fast but not the slow component of glutamate release observed after prolonged stimulations of nerve terminals. Further evidence that DHPG was able to initiate release facilitation in the absence of arachidonic acid was obtained in experiments where the protein phosphatase 2B (cyclosporine A and cypermethrine) but not protein phosphatase 1 or 2A inhibitors (okadaic acid and calyculin A) facilited glutamate release to a maximal extent comparable to that induced by arachidonic acid. We conclude that an active protein phosphatase 2B (calcineurin) dephosphorylates the presynaptic target/s responsible for facilitation of glutamate release.
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- A Sistiaga
- Departamento de Bioquímica, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad Complutense, 28040, Madrid, Spain
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Insaf SS, Witiak DT. Synthesis of All Distinct α-Methyl-Substituted Isomers of Amino Bis(2,2′-Ethanoic Acid) Diethyl Ester and Ethylene Diamine Tetraacetic Acid Tetraethyl Ester Scaffolds. Tetrahedron 2000. [DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4020(00)00103-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Hanessian S, Bernstein N, Yang RY, Maguire R. Asymmetric synthesis of L-azetidine-2-carboxylic acid and 3-substituted congeners--conformationally constrained analogs of phenylalanine, naphthylalanine, and leucine. Bioorg Med Chem Lett 1999; 9:1437-42. [PMID: 10360752 DOI: 10.1016/s0960-894x(99)00218-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Enantiopure L-azetidine-2-carboxylic acid, the (3R)-phenyl, (3R)-naphthyl and (3S)-isopropyl analogs were prepared based on a zinc-mediated asymmetric addition of allylic halides to the camphor sultam derivative of glyoxylic acid O-benzyl oxime.
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- S Hanessian
- Department of Chemistry, Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada
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Conformationally Constrained Analogues ofL-Glutamate as Subtype-Selective Modulators of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors. Bioorg Chem 1999. [DOI: 10.1006/bioo.1998.1107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Strasser U, Lobner D, Behrens MM, Canzoniero LM, Choi DW. Antagonists for group I mGluRs attenuate excitotoxic neuronal death in cortical cultures. Eur J Neurosci 1998; 10:2848-55. [PMID: 9758154 DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.1998.00291.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Activation of ion channel-linked glutamate receptors, especially N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors, mediates the excitotoxic effects of glutamate upon central neurons. We examined the hypothesis that activation of group I metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs) would increase NMDA receptor-mediated cortical neuronal death. Addition of the selective group I mGluR agonists, dihydroxyphenylglycine (DHPG) or trans-azetidine-2,4-dicarboxylic acid (t-ADA) potentiated NMDA-induced neuronal death, and application of the group I mGluR-selective antagonist, aminoindan-1,5-dicarboxylic acid (AIDA), as well as the non-selective antagonists methyl-4-carboxyphenylglycine (MCPG) or 4-carboxyphenylglycine (4CPG) reduced NMDA- and kainate-induced neuronal death in murine cortical cultures. The pro-excitotoxic effect of group I mGluR activation may be mediated largely by enhancement of glutamate release, as DHPG potentiated high potassium-stimulated glutamate release, and the protective effects of both AIDA and MCPG were abolished when NMDA and alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazole proprionic acid (AMPA) receptors were blocked immediately after toxic NMDA receptor overstimulation. The present data support the possibility that antagonizing group I mGluRs may be a useful strategy for attenuating excitotoxic neuronal death in certain disease states.
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- U Strasser
- Department of Neurology, Center for the Study of the Nervous System Injury, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
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Synthesis, molecular modeling, and biology of the 1-benzyl derivative of APDC-an apparent mGluR6 selective ligand. Bioorg Med Chem Lett 1997. [DOI: 10.1016/s0960-894x(97)00068-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Kozikowski AP, Liao Y, Tückmantel W, Wang S, Pshenichkin S, Surin A, Thomsen C, Wroblewski JT. Synthesis and biology of the rigidified glutamate analogue, trans-2-carboxyazetidine-3-acetic acid (t-CAA). Bioorg Med Chem Lett 1996. [DOI: 10.1016/0960-894x(96)00464-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Barluenga J, Fernández-Marí F, Viado AL, Aguilar E, Olano B. Diastereospecific Synthesis of Enantiomerically Pure Polysubstituted Azetidines from 1,3-Amino Alcohols with Three Chiral Centers. J Org Chem 1996. [DOI: 10.1021/jo960494b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- José Barluenga
- Instituto Universitario de Química Organometálica “Enrique Moles”, Unidad Asociada al C.S.I.C., Universidad de Oviedo, C/ Julián Clavería, 8, 33071 Oviedo, Spain
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- Instituto Universitario de Química Organometálica “Enrique Moles”, Unidad Asociada al C.S.I.C., Universidad de Oviedo, C/ Julián Clavería, 8, 33071 Oviedo, Spain
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- Instituto Universitario de Química Organometálica “Enrique Moles”, Unidad Asociada al C.S.I.C., Universidad de Oviedo, C/ Julián Clavería, 8, 33071 Oviedo, Spain
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- Instituto Universitario de Química Organometálica “Enrique Moles”, Unidad Asociada al C.S.I.C., Universidad de Oviedo, C/ Julián Clavería, 8, 33071 Oviedo, Spain
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- Instituto Universitario de Química Organometálica “Enrique Moles”, Unidad Asociada al C.S.I.C., Universidad de Oviedo, C/ Julián Clavería, 8, 33071 Oviedo, Spain
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Synthesis of optically active N-benzyl-2,4-bis(hydroxymethyl) substituted azetidines by lipase catalyzed acetylations. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1995. [DOI: 10.1016/0957-4166(95)00387-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Opitz T, Richter P, Carter AJ, Kozikowski AP, Shinozaki H, Reymann KG. Metabotropic glutamate receptor subtypes differentially influence neuronal recovery from in vitro hypoxia/hypoglycemia in rat hippocampal slices. Neuroscience 1995; 68:989-1001. [PMID: 8545005 DOI: 10.1016/0306-4522(95)00195-o] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Hippocampal slices were transiently exposed to an oxygen- and glucose-free environment which causes a pronounced drop of both ATP and creatine phosphate, an anoxic depolarization, and an incomplete recovery of synaptically evoked population spike in the CA1 region after 1 h (48.5 +/- 3.6% of baseline values). This recovery could be markedly enhanced by the application of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonists. To examine the influence of metabotropic glutamate receptors on neuronal recovery from hypoxia/hypoglycemia, we applied various antagonists and agonists of the metabotropic glutamate receptors to the bath during the interval from 20 min before to 10 after hypoxia/hypoglycemia. The metabotropic glutamate receptor antagonists (+)-alpha-methyl-4-carboxyphenylglycine and L-2-3- amino-phosphonopropionic acid were both able to enhance the population spike recovery significantly. However, the mixed metabotropic glutamate receptor agonist 1S,3R-1-aminocyclopentane-1,3-dicarboxylic acid also exhibited a protective effect on population spike recovery, leaving the anoxic depolarization and N-methyl-D-aspartate responses during the hypoxia/hypoglycemia untouched. With the help of more subtype-specific agonists, we found that an activation of phospholipase C coupled (class 1) metabotropic glutamate receptors prior to hypoxia/hypoglycemia may be responsible for the protective effect seen with 1S, 3R-1-aminocyclopentane-1,3-dicarboxylic acid, because the specific class 1 metabotropic glutamate receptor agonist trans-azetidine-2,4-dicarboxylic acid appeared to be highly protective, but only if it was applied 20 min before the hypoxia/hypoglycemia. An activation of class 2 metabotropic glutamate receptors by (2S,1'R,2'R,3'R)-2-(2,3-dicarboxycyclopropyl)glycine, which inhibits adenylyl cyclase activity, led to a marked deterioration of the population spike recovery and even to a total prevention of the protective effect of the N-methyl-D-aspartate agonist D-2-amino-5-phosphonopentanoic acid. Our data suggest that prior activation of class 1 metabotropic glutamate receptors is beneficial, while their activation during hypoxia/hypoglycemia is detrimental. Furthermore, the activation of class 2 metabotropic glutamate receptors decreases the recovery from hypoxia/hypoglycemia.
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- T Opitz
- Department of Neurophysiology, Federal Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany
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Bruno V, Battaglia G, Copani A, Giffard RG, Raciti G, Raffaele R, Shinozaki H, Nicoletti F. Activation of class II or III metabotropic glutamate receptors protects cultured cortical neurons against excitotoxic degeneration. Eur J Neurosci 1995; 7:1906-13. [PMID: 8528465 DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.1995.tb00712.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 124] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Trans-1-aminocyclopentane-1,3-dicarboxylic acid, a mixed agonist of all metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR) subtypes, is known to produce either neurotoxic or neuroprotective effects. We have therefore hypothesized that individual mGluR subtypes differentially affect neurodegenerative processes. Selective agonists of subtypes which belong to mGluR class II or III, such as (2S,1'R,2'R,3'R)-2-(2,3-dicarboxycyclopropyl)-glycine (DCG-IV) (specific for subtypes mGluR4, 6 or 7), were highly potent and efficacious in protecting cultured cortical neurons against toxicity induced by either a transient exposure to N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) or a prolonged exposure to kainate. In contrast, agonists that preferentially activate class I mGluR subtypes (mGluR1 or 5), such as quisqualate or trans-azetidine-2,3-dicarboxylic acid, were inactive. DCG-IV was still neuroprotective when applied to cultures after the toxic pulse with NMDA. This delayed rescue effect was associated with a reduction in the release of endogenous glutamate, a process that contributes to the maturation of neuronal damage. We conclude that agonists of class II or III mGluRs are of potential interest in the experimental therapy of acute or chronic neurodegenerative disorders.
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- V Bruno
- Institute of Pharmacology, University of Catania, Italy
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Thoreson WB, Ulphani JS. Pharmacology of selective and non-selective metabotropic glutamate receptor agonists at L-AP4 receptors in retinal ON bipolar cells. Brain Res 1995; 676:93-102. [PMID: 7796182 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(95)00093-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Retinal ON bipolar cells possess metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs) which are sensitive to L-2-amino-4-phosphonobutyric acid (L-AP4). Recent studies suggest there are multiple subtypes of L-AP4 receptors. In order to provide a more complete description of the pharmacology of the retinal L-AP4 receptor, we examined the actions of a number of compounds which are active at L-AP4 receptors and other mGluRs. Four groups of compounds were studied: (1) AP4 analogues (e.g. L-AP5, L-SOP, cyclobutylene AP5, and N-Me-AP4), (2) non-selective mGluR agonists (ibotenate and quisqualate), (3) selective mGluR agonists (L-CCG-I), and (4) agonists proposed to be selective for specific mGluR subtypes (DCG-IV and t-ADA). Concentration-response curves were obtained using the b-wave of the electroretinogram (ERG) as an assay for L-AP4 receptor activation. Whole cell voltage clamp recordings from ON bipolar cells in the retinal slice preparation of the mudpuppy were used to determine whether the compounds acted as L-AP4 receptor agonists. All compounds were L-AP4 receptor agonists, except t-ADA which was ineffective. The results reveal pharmacological differences between L-AP4 receptors in mudpuppy ON bipolar cells and those in other systems, consistent with the proposal that there are multiple L-AP4 receptor subtypes. For example, retinal L-AP4 receptors are more potently activated by L-AP5 than L-SOP, whereas L-SOP has been shown to be more potent than L-AP5 in L-AP4 receptors in the lateral perforant path (LPP) of the rat hippocampus. L-SOP is also relatively more potent at the cloned L-AP4 receptors mGluR4, 6, and 7 than in mudpuppy ON bipolar cells in situ. The different potencies of these compounds in retina and LPP is ascribed to both steric and charge factors. The results with DCG-IV and t-ADA are consistent with the proposal that these are subtype-selective agonists, but DCG-IV is likely to be selective only at very low concentrations (< or = 1 microM).
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- W B Thoreson
- Department of Ophthalmology, Gifford Laboratory of Ophthalmology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha 68198-5540, USA
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Knöpfel T, Sakaki J, Flor PJ, Baumann P, Sacaan AI, Veliçelebi G, Kuhn R, Allgeier H. Profiling of trans-azetidine-2,4-dicarboxylic acid at the human metabotropic glutamate receptors mGlu1b, -2, -4a and -5a. Eur J Pharmacol 1995; 288:389-92. [PMID: 7774685 DOI: 10.1016/0922-4106(95)90054-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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We have tested the two enantiomers of trans-azetidine-2,4-dicarboxylic acid, (2S,4S)-azetidine-2,4-dicarboxylic acid ((2S,4S)-ADA) and (2R,4R)-azetidine-2,4-dicarboxylic acid ((2R,4R)-ADA) for activity at the human metabotropic glutamate receptors mGlu1b, mGlu2, mGlu4a and mGlu5a expressed in mammalian cells. In Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells expressing human mGlu2 receptors, 500 microM (2S,4S)-ADA inhibited forskolin-stimulated cAMP accumulation by 33 +/- 3% while 100 microM (1S,3R)-1-Aminocyclopentane-1,3-dicarboxylic acid induced an inhibition by 66 +/- 5%. The (2R,4R)-ADA enantiomer was inactive at human mGlu2 receptors. In CHO cells expressing human mGlu4a receptors, 10 microM L-AP4 inhibited forskolin-stimulated cAMP levels by 37 +/- 4% whereas both ADA enantiomers of trans-azetidine-2,4-dicarboxylic acid (500 microM) had no such effect. In CHO cells expressing human mGlu1b receptors and L cells expressing human mGlu5a receptors, both enantiomers, applied at 500 microM or 1 mM, were ineffective in stimulating inositolmonophosphate accumulation and did not affect quisqualate-stimulated inositolmonophosphate accumulation. We conclude that (2S,4S)-azetidine-2,4-dicarboxylic acid is a weak human mGlu2 receptor agonist and that (2R,4R)-azetidine-2,4-dicarboxylic acid is inactive at human mGlu2 receptors. Trans-azetidine-2,4-dicarboxylic acid has no significant agonistic effect on human mGlu4a receptors and neither agonistic nor antagonistic effects on human mGlu1b and mGlu5a receptors.
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- T Knöpfel
- CNS Research, Ciba, Basle, Switzerland
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