β-Indolyloxy Functionalized Aspartate Analogs as Inhibitors of the Excitatory Amino Acid Transporters (EAATs).

ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters
Na LiuLennart Bunch

Abstract

The excitatory amino acid transporters (EAATs) mediate uptake of the major excitatory neurotransmitter l-glutamate (Glu). The essential functions governed by these transporters in regulating the central Glu level make them interesting therapeutic targets in a wide range of neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders. l-Aspartate (Asp), another EAAT substrate, has served as a privileged scaffold for the development of EAAT inhibitors. In this study, we designed and synthesized the first β-indolyloxy Asp analogs 15a-d with the aim to probe a hitherto unexplored adjacent pocket to the substrate binding site. The pharmacological properties of 15a-d were characterized at hEAAT1-3 and rEAAT4 in a conventional [3H]-d-Asp uptake assay. Notably, thiophene analog 15b and the para-trifluoromethyl phenyl analog 15d were found to be hEAAT1,2-preferring inhibitors exhibiting IC50 values in the high nanomolar range (0.21-0.71 μM) at these two transporters versus IC50 values in the low micromolar range at EAAT3,4 (1.6-8.9 μM). In summary, the results presented herein open up for further structure-activity relationship studies of this new scaffold.

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