C-6 fluorinated casuarines as highly potent and selective amyloglucosidase inhibitors: Synthesis and structure-activity relationship study

European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
2022.0

Abstract

A series of C-6 fluorinated casuarine derivatives have been synthesized via organocatalytic stereoselective α-fluorination of iminosugar-based aldehydes or direct nucleophilic fluorination of polyhydroxylated pyrrolizidines. Glycosidase assays against various glycosidases allowed systematic structure-activity relationship (SAR) study using molecular docking calculations. Introduction of fluorine atom(s) at C-6 position removed the trehalase and maltase inhibitory activities of all casuarine derivatives, and greatly increased their specificity towards amyloglucosidase. Inhibition of the fluorinated casuarines depended on the configuration of C-6 fluorine, of which 6-deoxy-6-epi-6-fluoro-casuarine (24) was found approximately 40-fold potent than its parent compound 6-epi-casuarine (2) as a potent and specific inhibitor of amyloglucosidase. Molecular docking calculations showed that replacement of the C-6 hydroxyls by fluorine atom(s) removed the original interactions with trehalase, but helped to reinforce the binding with amyloglucosidase via newly established fluorine related hydrogen bonding or untypical anion-π interactions. To further investigate the quantitative SARs of casuarine derivatives, the CoMFA and CoMSIA models on amyloglucosidase were established, indicating the dominating effect of electrostatic field in amyloglucosidase inhibition. The 3D-QSAR models were validated to be reliable and can be used for further optimization of casuarine-related iminosugars, as well as design and development of anti-diabetic and immunomodulatory drugs.

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