Exploring structural determinants of neuroprotection bias on novel glypromate conjugates with bioactive amines

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Neurodegenerative disorders of the central nervous system (CNS) such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, afflict millions globally, posing a significant public health challenge. Despite extensive research, a critical hurdle in effectively treating neurodegenerative diseases is the lack of neuroprotective drugs that can halt or reverse the underlying disease processes. In this work, we took advantage of the neuroprotective properties of the neuropeptide glycyl-l-prolyl-l-glutamic acid (Glypromate) for the development of new peptidomimetics using l-pipecolic acid as a proline surrogate and exploring their chemical conjugation with relevant active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) via a peptide bond. Together with prolyl-based Glypromate conjugates, a total of 36 conjugates were toxicologically and biologically evaluated. In this series, the results obtained showed that a constrained ring (l-proline) at the central position of the peptide motif accounts for enhanced toxicological profiles and biological effects using undifferentiated and differentiated human neuroblastoma SH-SY5Y cells. Additionally, it was shown that biased biological responses are API-dependent. Conjugation with (R)-1-aminoindane led to a 38-43% reduction of protein aggregation induced by Aβ25-35 (10 μM), denoting a 3.2-3.6-fold improvement in comparison with the parent neuropeptide, with no significative difference between functionalization at α and γ-carboxyl ends. On the other hand, the best-performing neuroprotective conjugate against the toxicity elicited by 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA, 125 μM) was obtained by conjugation with memantine at the α-carboxyl end, resulting in a 2.3-fold improvement of the neuroprotection capacity in comparison with Glypromate neuropeptide. Altogether, the chemical strategy explored in this work shows that the neuroprotective capacity of Glypromate can be modified and fine-tuned, opening a new avenue for the development of biased neurotherapeutics for CNS-related disorders.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:267

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European journal of medicinal chemistry - 267(2024) vom: 05. Feb., Seite 116174

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Silva-Reis, Sara C [VerfasserIn]
Costa, Vera M [VerfasserIn]
Correia da Silva, Daniela [VerfasserIn]
Pereira, David M [VerfasserIn]
Correia, Xavier Cruz [VerfasserIn]
Costa-Almeida, Hugo F [VerfasserIn]
García-Mera, Xerardo [VerfasserIn]
Rodríguez-Borges, José E [VerfasserIn]
Sampaio-Dias, Ivo E [VerfasserIn]

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Glycyl-prolyl-glutamic acid
Glypromate neuropeptide
Journal Article
Neuroblastoma cell line
Neurodegenerative diseases
Neuropeptides
Neuroprotective Agents
Oligopeptides
Oxidopamine
Peptide conjugates
Peptidomimetics
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Date Completed 26.02.2024

Date Revised 26.02.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.ejmech.2024.116174

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NLM367962640