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Acetylcholinesterase Inhibition of Diversely Functionalized Quinolinones for Alzheimer’s Disease Therapy

Óscar Bautista-Aguilera
Mourad Chioua
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Rudolf Andrys
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Monika Schmidt
Petr Bzonek
María Ángeles Martínez-Grau
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Christopher Beadle
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Tatiana Vetman
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Francisco López-Muñoz
Isabel Iriepa
Bernard Refouvelet
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Kamil Musilek
José Marco-Contelles

Abstract

In this communication, we report the synthesis and cholinesterase (ChE)/monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibition of 19 quinolinones (QN1-19) and 13 dihydroquinolinones (DQN1-13) designed as potential multitarget small molecules (MSM) for Alzheimer’s disease therapy. Contrary to our expectations, none of them showed significant human recombinant MAO inhibition, but compounds QN8, QN9, and DQN7 displayed promising human recombinant acetylcholinesterase (hrAChE) and butyrylcholinesterase (hrBuChE) inhibition. In particular, molecule QN8 was found to be a potent and quite selective non-competitive inhibitor of hrAChE (IC50 = 0.29 µM), with Ki value in nanomolar range (79 nM). Pertinent docking analysis confirmed this result, suggesting that this ligand is an interesting hit for further investigation.

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hal-03654611 , version 1 (28-04-2022)

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Óscar Bautista-Aguilera, Lhassane Ismaili, Mourad Chioua, Rudolf Andrys, Monika Schmidt, et al.. Acetylcholinesterase Inhibition of Diversely Functionalized Quinolinones for Alzheimer’s Disease Therapy. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2020, 21 (11), pp.3913. ⟨10.3390/ijms21113913⟩. ⟨hal-03654611⟩

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