t-Butyl pyridine and phenyl C-region analogues of 2-(3-fluoro-4-methylsulfonylaminophenyl)propanamides as potent TRPV1 antagonists

Sunho Lee, Dong Wook Kang, Hyung Chul Ryu, Changhoon Kim, Jihyae Ann, Hobin Lee, Eunhye Kim, Sunhye Hong, Sun Choi, Peter M. Blumberg, Robert Frank-Foltyn, Gregor Bahrenberg, Hannelore Stockhausen, Thomas Christoph, Jeewoo Lee

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Abstract

A series of 2-substituted 6-t-butylpyridine and 4-t-butylphenyl C-region analogues of 2-(3-fluoro-4-methylsulfonamidophenyl)propanamides were investigated for hTRPV1 antagonism. The analysis of structure activity relationships indicated that the pyridine derivatives generally exhibited a little better antagonism than did the corresponding phenyl surrogates for most of the series. Among the compounds, compound 7 showed excellent antagonism toward capsaicin activation with Ki = 0.1 nM and compound 60S demonstrated a strong antiallodynic effect with 83% MPE at 10 mg/kg in the neuropathic pain model. The docking study of 7S in our hTRPV1 homology model indicated that the interactions between the A/B-regions of 7S with Tyr511 and the interactions between the t-butyl and ethyl groups in the C-region of 7S with the two hydrophobic binding pockets of hTRPV1 contributed to the high potency.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2451-2462
Number of pages12
JournalBioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry
Volume25
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017

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Funding Information:
This research was supported by research grants from Grünenthal in Germany, a grant from the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea (NRF-2016M3A9B5939892), a grant from the National Leading Research Lab (NLRL) program (2011-0028885) funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP) and the NRF, and in part by the Intramural Research Program of the National Institutes of Health, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute (Project Z1A BC 005270) in the USA.

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© 2017 Elsevier Ltd

Keywords

  • Analgesic
  • TRPV1 antagonists
  • Vanilloid receptor 1

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