Bivalent dopamine agonists with co-operative binding and functional activities at dopamine D2 receptors, modulate aggregation and toxicity of alpha synuclein protein

Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry
2023.0

Abstract

To follow up on our previous report on bivalent compounds exhibiting potent co-operative binding at dopamine D2 receptors, we modified the structure of the linker in our earlier bivalent molecules (S)-6-((9-(((R)-5-hydroxy-1,2,3,4-tetrahydronaphthalen-2-yl)(propyl)amino)nonyl)-(propyl)amino)-5,6,7,8-tetrahydronaphthalen-1-ol (Ia) and (S)-6-((10-(((R)-5-hydroxy-1,2,3,4-tetrahydronaphthalen-2-yl)(propyl)amino)decyl)(propyl)amino)-5,6,7,8-tetrahydronaphthalen-1-ol (Ib) (Fig. 1) connecting the two pharmaophoric moieties to observe any tolerance in maintaining similar affinities and potencies. Specifically, we introduced aromatic and piperazine moieties in the linker to explore their effect. Overall, similar activities at D2 receptors as observed in our earlier study was maintained in the new molecules e.g. (6S,6'S)-6,6'-((1,4-phenylenebis(ethane-2,1-diyl))bis(propylazanediyl))bis(5,6,7,8-tetrahydronaphthalen-1-ol) (D-382) (Ki, D2 = 3.88 nM). The aromatic moiety in D-382 was next functionalized by introducing hydroxyl groups to mimic polyhydroxy natural products which are known to interact with amyloidogenic proteins. Such a transformation resulted in development of compounds like 2,5-bis(2-(((S)-5-hydroxy-1,2,3,4-tetrahydronaphthalen-2-yl)(propyl)amino)ethyl)benzene-1,4-diol (D-666) (Ki, D2 = 7.62 nM) which retained similar affinity and potency at D2 receptors. Such dihydroxyl compounds turned out to be potent inhibitors against aggregation and toxicity of recombinant alpha synuclein protein. The work reported here is in line with our overall goal to develop multifunctional dopamine agonist for symptomatic and disease modifying treatment of Parkinson's disease.

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