Rational design, synthesis, and pharmacological properties of new 1,8-naphthyridin-2(1H)-on-3-carboxamide derivatives as highly selective cannabinoid-2 receptor agonists

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  • Clementina Manera
  • Giuseppe Saccomanni
  • Barbara Adinolfi
  • Veronica Benetti
  • Alessia Ligresti
  • Maria Grazia Cascio
  • Tiziano Tuccinardi
  • Valentina Lucchesi
  • Adriano Martinelli
  • Paola Nieri
  • Emanuela Masini
  • Vincenzo Di Marzo
  • Pier Luigi Ferrarini
The CB(2) receptor activation can be exploited for the treatment of diseases such as chronic pain and tumors of immune origin, devoid of psychotropic activity. On the basis of our already reported 1,8-naphthyridin-4(1H)-on-3-carboxamide derivatives, new 1,8-naphthyridin-2(1H)-on-3-carboxamide derivatives were designed, synthesized, and tested for their affinities toward the human CB(1) and CB(2) cannabinoid receptors. Some of the reported compounds showed a subnanomolar CB(2) affinity with a CB(1)/CB(2) selectivity ratio greater than 200 (compounds 6, 12, cis-12, 13, and cis-13). Further studies revealed that compound 12, which presented benzyl and carboxy-4-methylcyclohexylamide substituents bound in the 1 and 3 positions, exerted a CB(2)-mediated inhibitory action on immunological human basophil activation. On the human T cell leukemia line Jurkat the same derivative induced a concentration-dependent decrease of cell viability. The obtained results suggest that 1,8-naphthyridin-2(1H)-on-3-carboxamides represent a new scaffold very suitable for the development of new promising CB(2) agonists.
Original languageEnglish
JournalJournal of Medicinal Chemistry
Volume52
Issue number12
Pages (from-to)3644-51
Number of pages7
ISSN0022-2623
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009

Bibliographical note

Keywords: Antineoplastic Agents; Cell Line, Tumor; Cell Proliferation; Cell Survival; Crystallography, X-Ray; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Drug Design; Drug Evaluation, Preclinical; Humans; Jurkat Cells; Models, Molecular; Molecular Structure; Naphthyridines; Receptor, Cannabinoid, CB1; Receptor, Cannabinoid, CB2; Structure-Activity Relationship

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