Phenolic composition, antioxidant potential and in vitro inhibitory activity of leaves and acorns of Quercus suber on key enzymes relevant for hyperglycemia and Alzheimer's disease

2015 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 45-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luísa Custódio ◽  
João Patarra ◽  
Fernando Alberício ◽  
Nuno da Rosa Neng ◽  
José Manuel Florêncio Nogueira ◽  
...  
Molecules ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (13) ◽  
pp. 2392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derya Osmaniye ◽  
Begüm Nurpelin Sağlık ◽  
Ulviye Acar Çevik ◽  
Serkan Levent ◽  
Betül Kaya Çavuşoğlu ◽  
...  

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common of the degenerative brain diseases and is described together with the impairment of cognitive function. Patients with AD lose the capability to code new memories, and life conditions are extremely difficult. The development of new drugs in this area continues at a great pace. A novel series of thiazole-piperazine hybrids, aimed against Alzheimer’s disease (AD), have been synthesized. The structure identification of synthesized compounds was elucidated by 1HNMR, 13C-NMR, and LCMSMS spectroscopic methods. The inhibitory potential of the synthesized compounds on cholinesterase enzymes was investigated. The compounds 3a, 3c and 3i showed significant inhibitory activity on the acetylcholinesterase (AChE) enzyme. On the other hand, none of the compounds showed significant inhibitory activity on the butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) enzyme. In addition to enzyme inhibition studies, enzyme kinetic studies were performed to observe the effects of the most active inhibitor compounds on the substrate–enzyme relationship. In addition to in vitro tests, docking studies also indicated that compound 3c potentially acts as a dual binding site AChE inhibitor.


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 7-12
Author(s):  
Huan Tran The ◽  
Dao Tran Thanh

Background: Inhibition of acetylcholinesterase are regarded as one of promising approach to treat Alzheimer’s disease. Hesperetin is a potential flavonoid for further development in this direction. Objectives: Semi-synthesized and assayed for hesperetin derivatives’s acetylcholinesterase inhibitory activity in vitro. Materials and methods: Ester and ether derivatives of hesperetin were semi-synthesized. The semi-synthesis compounds were tested for acetylcholinesterase inhibitory activity in vitro according to the Ellman’s method. Results: Hesperetin is obtained by hydrolysing hesperidin. Then, two ester and two ether derivatives were semi-synthesized from hesperetin. The results showed that some of the semi-synthesis hesperetin derivatives displayed stronger acetylcholinesterase inhibitory activity than hesperetin. Among them, derivative 1 has the best activity with an IC50 value of 43.50 μM. Conclusions: Four hesperetin derivatives were semi-synthesized and investigated their acetylcholinesterase inhibitory activity, some of which showed improvement in activity. Key words: Hesperetin, semi-synthesis, inhibit, enzyme, acetylcholinesterase


2021 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Jankowska ◽  
Grzegorz Satała ◽  
Gniewomir Latacz ◽  
Anna Partyka ◽  
Annamaria Lubelska ◽  
...  

Background: There is currently no drug that slows the process of neurodegeneration or alleviates the cognitive and depressive symptoms in patients with Alzheimer’s disease. Due to the increasing number of Alzheimer’s patients, there is an urgent need to develop novel drugs with neuroprotective, procognitive, and antidepressant properties. Objective: The aim of this study was to design, synthesize, and evaluate novel aminoalkanamides with serotonin 5-HT1A/5-HT7 receptor affinity and phosphodiesterase (PDE) inhibitory activity as a new approach to combat neurodegeneration and symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease. Methods: The newly designed compounds were synthesized using classical methods of organic chemistry and tested in vitro for their receptor affinity, functional profile, enzyme inhibition, and ADME properties. The neuroprotective effect against H2O2-induced increase of reactive oxygen species level was tested in SH-SY5Y cells. The novel object recognition and forced swimming tests were used to evaluate the procognitive and antidepressant activity, respectively. Results: Synthesized aminoalkanamides were characterized as potent 5-HT1A receptor antagonists with additional 5-HT7 receptor antagonistic properties and PDE4B inhibitory activity. Selected compound 15 showed neuroprotective, procognitive, and antidepressant properties. In addition, compound 15 revealed suitable ADME properties expressed as a good membrane permeability and a high metabolic stability. Conclusion: This study revealed a new class of compounds that may be useful in the search for an effective drug in the alleviation of neurodegeneration and symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease.


2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (9) ◽  
pp. 1155-1163
Author(s):  
Lintao Yu ◽  
Jian Shi ◽  
Xinfeng Cheng ◽  
Keren Wang ◽  
Shuang Liu ◽  
...  

Background: Due to the complex etiology of AD, multi-target-directed ligands (MTDLs), combining two or more distinct pharmacological moieties, have been developed in both symptomatic and disease-modifying efficiencies and are considered as an effective way for the treatment of AD. Methods: To test their biological activities, including AChE/BChE inhibitory activity and MAOA/ MAO-B inhibitory activity. In addition, molecular modeling studies were performed to afford insight into the binding mode. Results: The results displayed that compound 4c showed the best AChE inhibitory activity with an IC50 value of 4.2 μM, which was supported by the kinetic study and docking study. Compound 4c was also a selective MAO-B inhibitor (IC50 = 8.2 μM). Moreover, compound 4c could cross the blood-brain barrier in vitro. Conclusion: Compound 4c deserved to further study as a potential multifunctional agent for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease.


Proceedings ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Ryu ◽  
Moon ◽  
Ko ◽  
Lee ◽  
Lee

Our previous research showed that a novel series of phenylsulfonyl hydrazide derivatives reduced LPS-induced PGE2 levels in RAW 264.7 macrophage cells via an inhibition of mPGES-1 enzyme. As a continuous work, new phenylsulfonamide derivatives (5a-5k) as methylene analogues of phenylsulfonyl hydrazide derivatives, including MPO-0063, were synthesized and biologically evaluated in vitro. Among synthetic compounds, 5a (MPO-0112) showed decreased inhibitory activity against PGE2 production (IC50: 0.34 µM) compared to MPO-0063 (IC50: 0.04 µM) but inhibited the mPGES-1 enzyme (IC50: 7.37 µM) similar to MPO-0063 (IC50: 0.10 µM) together with excellent selectivity over COX-enzymes (COX-1 and 2). According to recent studies on the close correlation between up-regulation of mPGES-1 and Alzheimer's disease, we investigated whether 5a could ameliorate scopolamine-induced memory impairment using the passive avoidance test. The memory impairment-ameliorating effect of 5a (1.0 mg/kg, p.o.) was found to be effective, comparable to that of donepezil (5 mg/kg, p.o.) as a positive control. On the other hand, 5a exhibited little or weak AChE and BuChE inhibitory activity, which implies that 5a could ameliorate scopolamine-induced memory impairment by inhibiting mPGES-1 enzyme instead of cholinesterase enzymes. In addition, MPO-0112 exhibited a favorable in vitro CYP profile, which is suggestive of no potential drug–drug interactions. Therefore, these overall results suggest that 5a as a selective mPGES-1 inhibitor may be a novel therapeutic agent for diseases associated with cognitive deficits, such as Alzheimer’s disease.


Foods ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 705
Author(s):  
Gokhan Zengin ◽  
Mohamad Fawzi Mahomoodally ◽  
Gabriele Rocchetti ◽  
Luigi Lucini ◽  
Elwira Sieniawska ◽  
...  

Fibigia clypeata (L.) Medik. is a poorly studied plant species belonging to the Brassicaceae family, and usually used as cress in the salads. The current investigation aimed at assessing the antioxidant potential and inhibitory activity of ethyl acetate, methanol, and aqueous extracts of F. clypeata against key enzymes targeted in the management of type II diabetes (α-amylase and α-glucosidase), Alzheimer’s disease (acetylcholinesterase and butyrylcholinesterase), and skin hyperpigmentation (tyrosinase). Cytotoxicity of the extracts was also determined using normal VERO and cancer FaDu and SCC-25 cell lines. Besides, LC-MS was employed to investigate the detailed phytochemical profiles of the extracts. The methanol extract showed potent enzyme inhibitory activity (4.87 mg galantamine equivalent/g, 3.52 mg galantamine equivalent/g, 126.80 mg kojic acid equivalent/g, and 24.68 mg acarbose equivalent/g, for acetylcholinesterase, butyrylcholinesterase, tyrosinase, and α-glucosidase, respectively) and antioxidant potential (96.52, 109.10, 154.02, and 104.85 mg trolox equivalent/g, for DPPH, ABTS, CUPRAC, and FRAP assays, respectively). Interestingly, caffeic acid-O-hexoside derivative, caffeyl alcohol O-glucopyranoside, and ferulic acid derivative were identified in all extracts. F. clypeata extracts showed no cytotoxicity towards VERO cell line and a weak cytotoxic potential against FaDu and SCC-25 cell lines. Interesting scientific evidence gathered from the present study support further investigation on F. clypeata in the view of designing and developing a novel therapeutic agent for the management of Alzheimer’s disease, type II diabetes, skin hyperpigmentation problems, as well as cancer.


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