Thiazolidine: A Potent Candidate for Central Nervous Systems Diseases.

Thiazolidines are multifaceted molecules and exhibit varied types of biological activities, and also showed anticonvulsants and antidepressants activity. It is the diversified class of heterocyclic compounds. Thiazolidinediones (TZD) has been shown beneficial action in various CNS diseases. The significant mechanism of TZD-induced neuroprotection useful in prevention of microglial activation and cytokine that is responsible for inflammatory condition and chemokine expression. At the molecular level TZDs were also responsible to prevent the activation of pro-inflammatory transcription factors as well as promoting the anti-oxidant mechanisms in the injured CNS. Important SAR, molecular mechanism and potent biological activities with special references to central nervous system are discussed in this article. Various investigations suggest that this moiety pave the way for design and discovery of new drug candidates.

Synthesis, HIV-1 RT inhibitory, antibacterial, antifungal and binding mode studies of some novel N-substituted 5-benzylidine-2,4-thiazolidinediones.

BACKGROUND: Structural modifications of thiazolidinediones at 3rd and 5th position have exhibited significant biological activities. In view of the facts, and based on in silico studies carried out on thiazolidine-2,4-diones as HIV-1- RT inhibitors, a novel series of 2,4-thiazolidinedione analogs have been designed and synthesized. METHODS: Title compounds were prepared by the reported method. Conformations of the structures were assigned on the basis of results of different spectral data. The assay of HIV-1 RT was done as reported by Silprasit et al. Antimicrobial activity was determined by two fold serial dilution method. Docking study was performed for the highest active compounds by using Glide 5.0. RESULTS: The newly synthesized compounds were evaluated for their HIV-1 RT inhibitory activity. Among the synthesized compounds, compound 24 showed significant HIV-1 RT inhibitory activity with 73% of inhibition with an IC50 value of 1.31 µM. Compound 10 showed highest activity against all the bacterial strains.A molecular modeling study was carried out in order to investigate the possible interactions of the highest active compounds 24, 10 and 4 with the non nucleoside inhibitory binding pocket(NNIBP) of RT, active site of GlcN-6-P synthase and cytochrome P450 14-α-sterol demethylase from Candida albicans (Candida P450DM) as the target receptors respectively using the Extra Precision (XP) mode of Glide software. CONCLUSION: A series of novel substituted 2-(5-benzylidene-2,4-dioxothiazolidin-3-yl)-N-(phenyl)propanamides (4-31) have been synthesized and evaluated for their HIV-1 RT inhibitory activity, antibacterial and antifungal activities. Some of the compounds have shown significant activity. Molecular docking studies showed very good interaction.

Design, synthesis and anticonvulsant evaluation of N-(benzo[d]thiazol-2-ylcarbamoyl)-2-methyl-4-oxoquinazoline-3(4H)-carbothioamide derivatives: a hybrid pharmacophore approach.

Novel N-(benzo[d]thiazol-2-ylcarbamoyl)-2-methyl-4-oxoquinazoline-3(4H)-carbothioamide derivatives were synthesized and evaluation of their anticonvulsant effects was done using various models of experimental epilepsy. Initial anticonvulsant activities of the compounds were investigated using intraperitoneal (i.p.) maximal electroshock shock (MES), subcutaneous pentylenetetrazole (scPTZ) seizure models in mice. The quantitative assessment after oral administration in rats showed that the most active was 2-methyl-4-oxo-N-(6-(trifluoromethoxy)benzo[d]thiazol-2-ylcarbamoyl)quinazoline-3(4H)-carbothioamide (SA 24) with ED50 values of 82.5 µmol/kg (MES) and 510.5 µmol/kg (scPTZ). This molecule was more potent than phenytoin and ethosuximide which were used as reference antiepileptic drugs. To explain the possible mechanism for anticonvulsant action, some of the selected active compounds were subjected to GABA (γ-amino butyric acid) assay and AMPA ((S)-2-amino-3-(3-hydroxyl-5-methyl-4-isoxazolyl) propionic acid) induced seizure test.

3D QSAR and docking study of gliptin derivatives as DPP-IV inhibitors.

The article describes the development of a robust pharmacophore model and the investigation of structure activity relationship analysis of 46 xanthine derivatives reported for DPP-IV inhibition using PHASE module of Schrodinger software. The present works also encompasses molecular interaction of 46 xanthine ligand through maestro 8.5 software. The QSAR study comprises AHHR.7 pharmacophore hypothesis, which elaborates the three points, e.g. one hydrogen bond acceptor (A), two hydrophobic rings (H) and one aromatic ring (R). The discrete geometries as pharmacophoric feature were developed and the generated pharmacophore model was used to derive a predictive atom-based 3D QSAR model for the studied data set. The obtained 3D QSAR model has an excellent correlation coefficient value (r(2)= 0.9995) along with good statistical significance which is indicated by high Fisher ratio (F= 8537.4). The model also exhibits good predictive power confirmed by the high value of cross validated correlation coefficient (q(2) = 0.6919). The QSAR model suggests that hydrophobic character is crucial for the DPP-IV inhibitory activity exhibited by these compounds and inclusion of hydrophobic substituents will enhance the DPP-IV inhibition. In addition to the hydrophobic character, electron withdrawing groups positively contribute to the DPP-IV inhibition potency. The findings of the QSAR study provide a set of guidelines for designing compounds with better DPP-IV inhibitory potency.

Novel serine protease dipeptidyl peptidase IV inhibitor: alogliptin.

Alogliptin (codenamed SYR-322) is a recently approved anti-diabetic drug in Japan, which has been under clinical development phase III in USA and Europe. Alogliptin has been developed by Takeda under the brand name "Nesina". Alogliptin is a highly selective ( > 10,000-time selectivity, potent, reversible and durable serine protease dipeptidyl peptidase IV enzyme is compared to DPP-8 and DPP-9) inhibitor, which has been developed as an alternative second-line to metformin in place of a sulphonylurea. Alogliptin has been observed to increase and prolong the action of incretin hormone by inhibiting the DPP-IV enzyme activity. Alogliptin has been observed to well absorb and show low plasma protein binding, which displays slow-binding properties to DPP-IV enzyme. The X-ray crystallography studies have been revealed that Alogliptin binds to DPP-IV active site by non-covalently and provides sustained reduction of plasma DPP-IV activity as well as lowering of blood glucose, in drug-naive patients with T2DM and inadequate glycemic control, once daily oral dosing regimen with varying levels of doses ranging from 25-800 mg. Alogliptin is approved as monotherapy and in combination with alpha-glucosidase & thiazolidinediones. The 26 week clinical study of Alogliptin revealed that Alogliptin doesn't increase the weight and well tolerated. In the present review, we have tried to cover biology of DPP-IV, molecular chemistry, chemical characterization, crystal polymorphic information, interaction studies, commercial synthesis, current patent status, adverse effects and clinical status of Alogliptin giving emphasis on the medicinal chemistry aspect.