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Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Synthesis and evaluation of 26-amino acid methyl ester substituted sarsasapogenin derivatives as neuroprotective agents for Alzheimer's disease.
Steroids 2017 September
Sarsasapogenin, extracted from Anemarrhena asphodeloides Bunge., has been reported to protect neurons from H2 O2 -induced damage. In the current study, four series of 26-amino acid methyl ester substituted sarsasapogenin derivatives (5a-5e, 5f-5j, 6a-6e and 7a-7e) were synthesized and tested for neuroprotective activity by evaluating their neuroprotective ratio against SH-SHY5Y cell lines. Studies showed that most of the target compounds displayed better neuroprotective effects than that of sarsasapogenin. Structure-activity relationship analysis suggested that 3-methoxy derivatives (5f-5j) were more potent than other series and the phenylalanine methyl ester moiety at C-26 was important for exhibiting apparent neuroprotective activity. It was worth noting that compound 5h exhibited optimal neuroprotective activity (102.2%) compared with sarsasapogenin (27.3%) and trolox (40.5%), and this encouraged us to investigate the cellular mechanism of 5h further. Our investigation revealed that 5h could attenuate H2 O2 -induced cell damage by inhibiting the expression of cleaved poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) and cleaved caspase-3 as well as rescuing the downregulation of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and its tyrosine receptor kinase B (TrkB). Taken together, these results suggest that the representative compound 5h is a profound lead compound for further investigation and the sarsasapogenin skeleton could be a promising structural template for the development of new anti-Alzheimer drug candidates.
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