Quinoxalinetacrine QT78, a cholinesterase inhibitor as a potential ligand for Alzheimer’s disease therapy

Eva Ramos; Alejandra Palomino-Antolín; Manuela Bartolini; Isabel Iriepa; Ignacio Moraleda; Daniel Diez-Iriepa; Abdelouahid Samadi; Carol V. Cortina; Mourad Chioua; Javier Egea; Alejandro Romero; José Marco-Contelles

doi:10.3390/molecules24081503

Quinoxalinetacrine QT78, a cholinesterase inhibitor as a potential ligand for Alzheimer’s disease therapy

Eva Ramos, Alejandra Palomino-Antolín, Manuela Bartolini, Isabel Iriepa, Ignacio Moraleda, Daniel Diez-Iriepa, Abdelouahid Samadi, Carol V. Cortina, Mourad Chioua, Javier Egea, Alejandro Romero, José Marco-Contelles

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Abstract

We report the synthesis and relevant pharmacological properties of the quinoxalinetacrine (QT) hybrid QT78 in a project targeted to identify new non-hepatotoxic tacrine derivatives for Alzheimer’s disease therapy. We have found that QT78 is less toxic than tacrine at high concentrations (from 100 µM to 1 mM), less potent than tacrine as a ChE inhibitor, but shows selective BuChE inhibition (IC₅₀ (hAChE) = 22.0 ± 1.3 µM; IC₅₀ (hBuChE) = 6.79 ± 0.33 µM). Moreover, QT78 showed effective and strong neuroprotection against diverse toxic stimuli, such as rotenone plus oligomycin-A or okadaic acid, of biological significance for Alzheimer’s disease.

Original language	English
Article number	1503
Journal	Molecules
Volume	24
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules24081503
Publication status	Published - Apr 17 2019

Keywords

Alzheimer’s disease
Cholinesterase inhibitor
Hepatotoxicity
Molecular modeling
Neuroprotection
Quinoxalines
Quinoxalinetacrines
Tacrine

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Analytical Chemistry
Chemistry (miscellaneous)
Molecular Medicine
Pharmaceutical Science
Drug Discovery
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
Organic Chemistry

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