Pleiotropic prodrugs: Design of a dual butyrylcholinesterase inhibitor and 5-HT6 receptor antagonist with therapeutic interest in Alzheimer’s disease

European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
2021.0

Abstract

Beside acetylcholinesterase, butyrylcholinesterase could be considered as a putative target of interest for the symptomatic treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD). As a result of complexity of AD, no molecule has been approved since 2002. Idalopirdine, a 5-HT receptors antagonist, did not show its effectiveness in clinical trial despite its evaluation as adjunct to cholinesterase inhibitors. Pleiotropic molecules, known as multitarget directed ligands (MTDLs) are currently developed to tackle the multifactorial origin of AD. In this context, we have developed a pleiotropic carbamate 7, that behaves as a covalent inhibitor of BuChE (IC = 0.97 μM). The latter will deliver after hydrolysis, compound 6, a potent 5-HT receptors antagonist (K = 11.4 nM) related to idalopirdine. In silico and in vitro evaluation proving our concept were performed completed with first in vivo results that demonstrate great promise in restoring working memory.

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