Novel 12-membered non-antibiotic macrolides, EM900 series with anti-inflammatory and/or immunomodulatory activity; synthesis, structure?activity relationships and in vivo study
Novel 12-membered non-antibiotic macrolides, EM900 series with anti-inflammatory and/or immunomodulatory activity; synthesis, structure?activity relationships and in vivo study
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具有抗炎和/或免疫调节活性的新型12元非抗生素大环内酯类EM900系列;
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10.1038/ja.2012.51
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2012
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Satoshi?mura and Toshiaki Sunazuka
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Akihiro Sugawara;Akito Sueki;Tomoyasu Hirose;Hideaki Shima;Kiyoko S Akagawa;Satoshi?mura and Toshiaki Sunazuka
Erythromycin A (EMA), first isolated in 1952, 1 is a clinically useful macrolide antibiotic, active against both Gram-positive bacteria and Gram-negative cocci and mycoplasmas. In the 1980s, EMA was found to have two other promising biological properties, gastrointestinal motor-stimulating activity and anti-inflammatory and/or immunomodulatory activity by Itoh et al. 2 and Kudoh et al., 3 respectively. Based on these findings, our research group has been striving to create an ideal derivative, which exhibits a specific activity without showing antibacterial effect. We have already found a new motilide derivative (EM574, de-N-methyl-N-isopropyl-8, 9-anhydroerythromycin A 6, 9-hemiketal), which exhibited gastrointestinal motor-stimulating activity but showed no antibacterial activity. 4–7 As a result of its anti-inflammatory and/or immunomodulatory activity, EMA is an effective treatment for diffuse panbronchiolitis, 3 chronic sinusitis and cystic fibrosis. 8 Additionally, our group reported that EMA promotes monocyte to macrophage differentiation and inhibits proliferation of T cell in vitro. 9, 10 Likewise, 14-membered macrolides are also well known to possess anti-inflammatory and/or immunomodulatory activity, which are represented by inhibition of inflammatory cytokine production. 11–13 However, the detailed mode of action of EMA has not yet been determined. Macrolide derivatives with anti-inflammatory and/or immunomodulatory activity but lacking either antibacterial activity or gastrointestinal motorstimulating activity would be extremely useful, as they would help avoid promotion of drug resistance, as well as help to minimize any adverse effects of EMA treatment. In a previous paper, 14 we reported our development of the novel 12-membered (8R, 9S)-8, 9-dihydro-6, 9-epoxy-8, 9-anhydropseudoerythromycin A (EM900), and analogues thereof, possessing the ability to promote monocyte to macrophage differentiation but lacking antibacterial activity. This provided us with a novel, acid-stable 12-membered macrolide chemical skeleton with anti-inflammatory and/or immunomodulatory activity, although no detailed structure–activity relationships had been clarified. From our initial study, we learned that neither disconnection of the side chain bearing from the C11 position nor the cladinose moiety has an important role in the anti-inflammatory and/or immunomodulatory effects. Consequently, we became interested in synthesis of analogues of the N, N-dimethylamino group on desosamine moiety, inspired by our experience with erythromycin derivatives with a potent motiline-like activity, especially motilide EM574. 4 Generally, the N, N-dimethylamino group of EMA is an essential moiety for generating antibacterial activity. In contrast, in the case of motiline-like activity, modification of the N, N-dimethylamino group dramatically increases the activity. 4 Taken together, we envisioned that modification of the N, N-dimethylamino group might be possible as a means of increasing anti-inflammatory and/or immunomodulatory activity. In this communication, we report the elucidation of structure–activity relationships of the N, N-dimethylamino group of EM900, as well as those of the analogues,(8R, 9S)-de (30-N-methyl)-30-N-(pchlorobenzyl)-8, 9-dihydro-6, 9-epoxy-8, 9-anhydropseudoerythromycin A (EM905) and (8R, 9S)-de (30-N, N-dimethylamino)-30-morpholino-8, 9-dihydro-6, 9-epoxy-8, 9-anhydropseudoerythromycin A (EM914). The two compounds, EM905 and EM914, were found to be effective for treatment in a mouse model of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), even at considerably low doses, compared with the therapeutic sulfa drug, sulfasalazine. We propose …