Fluorescent probes of the isoxazole-dihydropyridine scaffold: MDR-1 binding and homology model Dedicated to the memory of Professor Robert O. Hutchins, peerless mentor and good friend

Monika I. Szabon-Watola, Sarah V. Ulatowski, Kathleen M. George, Christina D. Hayes, Scott A. Steiger, Nicholas R. Natale

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Abstract

Isoxazole-1,4-dihydropyridines (IDHPs) were tethered to fluorescent moieties using double activation via a lanthanide assisted Weinreb amidation. IDHP-fluorophore conjugate 3c exhibits the highest binding to date for IDHPs at the multidrug-resistance transporter (MDR-1), and IDHP-fluorophore conjugates 3c and 7 distribute selectively in SH-SY5Y cells. A homology model for IDHP binding at MDR-1 is presented which represents our current working hypothesis.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)117-121
Number of pages5
JournalBioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters
Volume24
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2014

Funding

MDR1 data was generously provided by the National Institute of Mental Health’s Psychoactive Drug Screening Program (NIMH PDSP) , Contract # HHSN-271-2008-00025-C (NIMH PDSP). The NIMH PDSP is Directed by Bryan L. Roth MD, Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Project Officer Jamie Driscoll at NIMH, Bethesda MD, USA. The authors thank NIH for grants NS038444 (N.N., M.I.S.), 5U01ES016102-02 (K.M.G., S.V.U.), and P20RR015583 (N.N., S.S.). C.D.H. thanks the NSF REU Award Number 0649306 . M.I.S. thanks the Malcolm and Carol Renfrew Scholarship. We thank Dr. Alex Blumenfeld for VT NMR and Dr. Gary Knerr for able assistance in FAB MS while at the University of Idaho. We thank Dr. Mike Braden and Dave Holley of the Core Facility for Molecular Computation (UM) for helpful discussions during pharmacophore modeling.

Funder number
0649306
HHSN-271-2008-00025-C
P20RR015583

    Keywords

    • Dihydropyridine
    • Homology model
    • Isoxazole
    • Multidrug resistance transporter

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