Synthesis and evaluation of a difluoromethylene analogue of sphingomyelin as an inhibitor of sphingomyelinase

Autor: Tsutomu Yokomatsu, Hiroshi Shimeno, S. Shibuya, Takaaki Kominato, Shinji Soeda, Takeshi Akiyama, Hiroaki Takechi
Rok vydání: 2001
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Zdroj: Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 11:1277-1280
ISSN: 0960-894X
DOI: 10.1016/s0960-894x(01)00179-2
Popis: A sphingomyelin analogue 2 , in which the long alkenyl chain and the phosphodiester moiety of sphingomyelin were replaced by a phenyl and an isosteric difluoromethylenephosphonic acid, was prepared to evaluate its inhibitory potency to sphingomyelinase. The analogue non-competitively inhibited the neutral sphingomyelinase in bovine brain microsomes with an IC 50 of 400 μM. The compound had the ability to suppress tumor necrosis factor α-induced apoptosis of PC-12 neurons at a low concentration of 0.1 μM.
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