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  2. Discovery, synthesis, and structure-activity relationships of 2-aminoquinazoline derivatives as a novel class of metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 negative allosteric modulators

Discovery, synthesis, and structure-activity relationships of 2-aminoquinazoline derivatives as a novel class of metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 negative allosteric modulators

  • Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2013 Aug 15;23(16):4493-500. doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2013.06.049.
Holger Kubas 1 Udo Meyer Bjoern Krueger Mirko Hechenberger Maksims Vanejevs Ronalds Zemribo Valerjans Kauss Raisa Ambartsumova Ilya Pyatkin Alexey I Polosukhin Ulrich Abel
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Affiliation

  • 1 Merz Pharmaceuticals GmbH, Eckenheimer Landstrasse 100, 60318 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Abstract

A virtual screening approach using various in silico methodologies led to the discovery of 2-(m-tolylamino)-7,8-dihydroquinazolin-5(6H)-one (1) as a moderately active negative allosteric modulator (NAM) of the metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 5 (mGluR5) showing high selectivity against the subtype mGluR1. Modifications of the parent compound by rational design yielded a series of highly potent derivatives which will serve as valuable starting points for further hit-to-lead optimization efforts toward a suitable drug candidate for the treatment of L-DOPA induced dyskinesia.

Keywords

Allosteric modulator; Metabotropic glutamate receptor; Virtual screening; l-DOPA induced dyskinesia; mGluR5.

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