Kitbunnadaj R, Hoffmann M, Fratantoni SA, Bongers G, Bakker RA, Wieland K, el Jilali A, De Esch IJP, Menge WMPB, Timmerman H, Leurs R. New high affinity H3 receptor agonists without a basic side chain.
Bioorg Med Chem 2005;
13:6309-23. [PMID:
16213736 DOI:
10.1016/j.bmc.2005.09.002]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2004] [Revised: 05/02/2005] [Accepted: 05/06/2005] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Abstract
In this study, we replaced the basic amine function of the known histamine H(3) receptor agonists imbutamine or immepip with non-basic alcohol or hydrocarbon moieties. All compounds in this study show a moderate to high affinity for the cloned human H(3) receptor and, unexpectedly, almost all of them act as potent agonists. Moreover, in the alcohol series, we consistently observed an increased selectivity for the human H(3) receptor over the human H(4) receptor, but none of the compounds in this series possess increased affinity and functional activity compared to their alkylamine congeners. In this new series of compounds VUF5657, 5-(1H-imidazol-4-yl)-pentan-1-ol, is the most potent histamine H(3) receptor agonist (pK(i) = 8.0 and pEC(50) = 8.1) with a 320-fold selectivity at the human H(3) receptor over the human H(4) receptor.
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