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Design, Synthesis and Biological Activity Evaluation of Novel Rho Kinase Inhibitors

  • Yao Yangyang ,
  • Liu Xiaoyu ,
  • Yang Feilong ,
  • Yang Ying ,
  • Yuan Tianyi ,
  • Fang Lianhua ,
  • Du Guanhua ,
  • Jiao Xiaozhen ,
  • Xie Ping
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  • a State Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substances and Functions of Natural Medicines, Beijing Key Laboratory of Active Substances Discovery and Druggability Evaluation, Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100050;
    b State Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substances and Functions of Natural Medicines, Beijing Key Laboratory of Drug Targets Identification and Drug Screening, Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100050

Received date: 2017-11-03

  Revised date: 2017-11-24

  Online published: 2017-12-05

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Project supported by the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS) Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences (No. CIFMS 2016-I2M-3-009) and the Fun-damental Research Funds for Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS)/Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) (No. 2016ZX350024).

Abstract

Based on the structure of N-(1H-indazol-5-yl)-1-(4-methylbenzyl) pyrrolidine-3-carboxamide (I), which was previously obtained via a structure-based optimization of ROCK 1 inhibitor, sixteen novel 1-substituted-(1H-indazol-5-yl)tetrahydro pyrimidin-2(1H)-one derivatives were designed and synthesized via an active substructure combination strategy. The structures of the target compounds were confirmed by 1H NMR, 13C NMR and HRMS. The bioassay data indicated that 1-(1H-indazol-5-yl)-3-(4-nitrophenyl) tetrahydropyrimidin-2(1H)-one (8a) and 4-(3-(1H-indazol-5-yl)-2-oxo tetrahydropyrimidin-1(2H)-yl)benzonitrile (8b) had good activities against ROCK I. The IC50 values for 8a and 8b were 6.01 and 9.46 μmol·L-1, respectively. Moreover, ex vivo studies demonstrated that 8a and 8b exhibited vasorelaxant activity in rat basilar artery ring. The EC50 values for 8a and 8b were 15.92 and 20.61 μmol·L-1, respectively.

Cite this article

Yao Yangyang , Liu Xiaoyu , Yang Feilong , Yang Ying , Yuan Tianyi , Fang Lianhua , Du Guanhua , Jiao Xiaozhen , Xie Ping . Design, Synthesis and Biological Activity Evaluation of Novel Rho Kinase Inhibitors[J]. Chinese Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2018 , 38(4) : 871 -882 . DOI: 10.6023/cjoc201711007

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