Discovery of novel 6-hydroxybenzothiazole urea derivatives as dual Dyrk1A/α-synuclein aggregation inhibitors with neuroprotective effects

European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
2022.0

Abstract

A role of Dyrk1A in the progression of Down syndrome-related Alzheimer's disease (AD) is well supported. However, the involvement of Dyrk1A in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease (PD) was much less studied, and it is not clear whether it would be promising to test Dyrk1A inhibitors in relevant PD models. Herein, we modified our previously published 1-(6-hydroxybenzo[d]thiazol-2-yl)-3-phenylurea scaffold of Dyrk1A inhibitors to obtain a new series of analogues with higher selectivity for Dyrk1A on the one hand, but also with a novel, additional activity as inhibitors of α-synuclein (α-syn) aggregation, a major pathogenic hallmark of PD. The phenyl acetamide derivative b27 displayed the highest potency against Dyrk1A with an IC<sub>50</sub> of 20 nM and high selectivity over closely related kinases. Furthermore, b27 was shown to successfully target intracellular Dyrk1A and to inhibit SF3B1 phosphorylation in HeLa cells with an IC<sub>50</sub> of 690 nM. In addition, two compounds among the Dyrk1A inhibitors, b1 and b20, also suppressed the aggregation of α-synuclein (α-syn) oligomers (with IC<sub>50</sub> values of 10.5 μM and 7.8 μM, respectively). Both compounds but not the Dyrk1A reference inhibitor harmine protected SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells against α-syn-induced cytotoxicity, with b20 exhibiting a higher neuroprotective effect. Compound b1 and harmine were more efficient in protecting SH-SY5Y cells against 6-hydroxydopamine-induced cell death, an effect that was previously correlated to Dyrk1A inactivation in cells but not yet verified using chemical inhibitors. The presented dual inhibitors exhibited a novel activity profile encouraging for further testing in neurodegenerative disease models.

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