The design of novel chemical classes acting towards several G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) represents a leading strategy in drug discovery, aimed at deriving effective and safe candidates for further assessment. During the last years, TAAR1 arose as a promising druggable target in medicinal chemistry, being of interest in the treatment of several pathologies, such as neuropsychiatric disorders, type 2 diabetes and obesity. Nevertheless, the limited number of known potent and selective ligands and the species-specificity responsiveness exhibited by those derivatives nowadays available make the discovery of novel compounds a challenging task. Herein, we discuss the development of two quantitative-structure activity relationship (QSAR) models around the agonism ability experienced by different chemo-types toward murine and human TAAR1 (m/hTAAR1) with the aim at deciphering some clues involved in their species-specificity responsiveness. Qualitatively, these information were evaluated guiding for the synthesis of novel ligands, which proved to feature selective agonism ability with respect to the mTAAR1 and hTAAR1 orthologues.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)171-184
Number of pages14
JournalEuropean Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
Volume146
DOIs
StatePublished - 25 Feb 2018

    Research areas

  • Agonists, Biguanide, Docking, QSAR, TAAR1, Thyronamines, Humans, Models, Molecular, Bioluminescence Resonance Energy Transfer Techniques, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled/antagonists & inhibitors, Biguanides/chemical synthesis, Drug Design, HEK293 Cells, Molecular Structure, Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship, TRACE AMINES, AMINE-ASSOCIATED RECEPTOR, OLFACTORY SUBSYSTEM, DISCOVERY, LIGANDS, DERIVATIVES, MOUSE, PROTEIN-COUPLED RECEPTORS, MOLECULAR DOCKING, 1 MTAAR1 AGONISTS

    Scopus subject areas

  • Drug Discovery
  • Pharmacology
  • Organic Chemistry

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