Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-10-2024

Journal / Book Title

Journal of Medicinal Chemistry

Abstract

PDE11A4 is a target of interest for the treatment of age-related memory disorders. A previous report from our laboratories described an amide series of potent, selective PDE11A4 inhibitors that was metabolically unstable. Investigation of heterocyclic amide isosteres for the labile amide moiety revealed distinct structure-activity relationships and identified several compounds with potency comparable to the amide series. This manuscript describes the characterization of structure-activity and structure-property relationships in this set, leading to the identification of an orally bioavailable, brain-penetrant, selective and potent PDE11A4 inhibitor. Target engagement experiments demonstrated PDE11A4 inhibition in the hypothalamus of mice that was absent in PDE11A4 knock out animals.

DOI

10.1021/acs.jmedchem.4c01794

Rights

This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Published Citation

Mahmood, S. U., Eberhard, J., Hoffman, C. S., Colussi, D., Gordon, J., Childers, W., Amurrio, E., Patel, J., Kelly, M. P., & Rotella, D. P. (2024). First Demonstration of In Vivo PDE11A4 Target Engagement for Potential Treatment of Age-Related Memory Disorders. Journal of medicinal chemistry, 67(19), 17774–17784. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jmedchem.4c01794

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