Primary Amino Acid Derivatives: Compounds with Anticonvulsant and Neuropathic Pain Protection Activities

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• 作者：Amber M. King ; Christophe Salome虂 ; Jason Dinsmore ; Elise Salome虂-Grosjean ; Marc De Ryck ; Rafal Kaminski ; Anne Valade ; Harold Kohn
• 刊名：Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
• 出版年：2011
• 出版时间：July 14, 2011
• 年：2011
• 卷：54
• 期：13
• 页码：4815-4830
• 全文大小：1229K
• 年卷期：v.54,no.13(July 14, 2011)
• ISSN：1520-4804

文摘

Pharmacological management remains the primary method to treat epilepsy and neuropathic pain. We have advanced a novel class of anticonvulsants termed functionalized amino acids (FAAs). In this study, we examine FAA derivatives from which the terminal acetyl moiety was removed and termed these compounds primary amino acid derivatives (PAADs). Twenty-seven PAADs were prepared; the central C(2) R-substituent was varied, including C(2) stereochemistry, and the compounds were tested in rodent models of seizures and neuropathic pain. C(2)-Hydrocarbon N-benzylamide PAADs were potent anticonvulsants and excellent anticonvulsant activity (mice, ip; rat, po) was observed for C(2) R-substituted PAADs in which the R group was ethyl, isopropyl, or tert-butyl, and the C(2) stereochemistry conformed to the mallcaps">d-amino acid configuration ((R)-stereoisomer). These values surpassed the activities of several clinical antiepileptic drugs. The C(2) (R)-ethyl and C(2) (R)-isopropyl PAADs also displayed excellent activities in the mouse (ip) formalin neuropathic pain model. Significantly, unlike the FAA structure鈥揳ctivity relationship, PAAD anticonvulsant activity increased upon substitution of a methylene unit for a heteroatom in the R-substituent that was one atom removed from the C(2) site, suggesting that these PAADs function by a different pathway than FAAs.