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  2. Macrocyclic BACE-1 inhibitors acutely reduce Abeta in brain after po application

Macrocyclic BACE-1 inhibitors acutely reduce Abeta in brain after po application

  • Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2010 Jan 15;20(2):603-7. doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2009.11.092.
Andreas Lerchner 1 Rainer Machauer Claudia Betschart Siem Veenstra Heinrich Rueeger Clive McCarthy Marina Tintelnot-Blomley Anne-Lise Jaton Sabine Rabe Sandrine Desrayaud Albert Enz Matthias Staufenbiel Paolo Paganetti Jean-Michel Rondeau Ulf Neumann
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  • 1 Novartis Institutes for BioMedicalResearch, Novartis Pharma AG, PO Box, CH 4002, Basel, Switzerland. andreas.lerchner@novartis.com
Abstract

A series of macrocyclic peptidic BACE-1 inhibitors was designed. While potency on BACE-1 was rather high, the first set of compounds showed poor brain permeation and high efflux in the MDRI-MDCK assay. The replacement of the secondary benzylamino group with a phenylcyclopropylamino group maintained potency on BACE-1, while P-glycoprotein-mediated efflux was significantly reduced and brain permeation improved. Several compounds from this series demonstrated acute reduction of Abeta in human APP-wildtype transgenic (APP51/16) mice after oral administration.

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