PMID- 28571715 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20180417 LR - 20180417 IS - 1873-7064 (Electronic) IS - 0028-3908 (Linking) VI - 123 DP - 2017 Sep 1 TI - The novel multitarget iron chelating and propargylamine drug M30 affects APP regulation and processing activities in Alzheimer's disease models. PG - 359-367 LID - S0028-3908(17)30251-4 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2017.05.026 [doi] AB - In many of the neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) and AD-related disorders, as well as in the regular ageing process, excessive generation of oxidative stress (OS) and accumulation of iron levels and deposition have been observed in specific affected-brain regions and thus, regarded as contributing factors to the pathogenesis of the diseases. In AD, iron promotes amyloid beta (Abeta) neurotoxicity by producing free radical damage and OS in brain areas affected by neurodegeneration, presumably by facilitating the aggregation of Abeta. In addition, it was shown that iron modulates intracellular levels of the holo amyloid precursor protein (APP) by iron-responsive elements (IRE) RNA stem loops in the 5' untranslated region (5'UTR) of the APP transcript. As a consequence of these observations, iron chelation is one of the major new therapeutic strategies for the treatment of AD. This review describes the benefits and importance of the multimodal brain permeable chimeric iron-chelating/propargylamine drug M30, concerning its neuroprotective/neurorestorative inter-related activities relevant of the pathological features ascribed to AD, with a special focus on the effect of the drug on APP regulation and processing. CI - Copyright (c) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. FAU - Amit, Tamar AU - Amit T AD - Faculty of Medicine, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 31096, Israel. FAU - Bar-Am, Orit AU - Bar-Am O AD - Faculty of Medicine, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 31096, Israel. FAU - Mechlovich, Danit AU - Mechlovich D AD - Faculty of Medicine, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 31096, Israel. FAU - Kupershmidt, Lana AU - Kupershmidt L AD - Faculty of Medicine, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 31096, Israel. FAU - Youdim, Moussa B H AU - Youdim MBH AD - Faculty of Medicine, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 31096, Israel. FAU - Weinreb, Orly AU - Weinreb O AD - Faculty of Medicine, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 31096, Israel. Electronic address: worly@technion.ac.il. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Review DEP - 20170529 PL - England TA - Neuropharmacology JT - Neuropharmacology JID - 0236217 RN - 0 (5-(N-methyl-N-propargylaminomethyl)-8-hydroxyquinoline) RN - 0 (Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor) RN - 0 (Hydroxyquinolines) RN - 0 (Iron Chelating Agents) RN - 0 (Neuroprotective Agents) SB - IM MH - Alzheimer Disease/*drug therapy/*metabolism MH - Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor/*metabolism MH - Animals MH - Humans MH - Hydroxyquinolines/*pharmacology MH - Iron Chelating Agents/*pharmacology MH - Neuroprotective Agents/*pharmacology OTO - NOTNLM OT - APP processing/regulation OT - Alzheimer's disease OT - Amyloid beta OT - Iron chelation OT - Propargyl moiety EDAT- 2017/06/03 06:00 MHDA- 2018/04/18 06:00 CRDT- 2017/06/03 06:00 PHST- 2017/04/04 00:00 [received] PHST- 2017/05/16 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2017/05/26 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2017/06/03 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2018/04/18 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2017/06/03 06:00 [entrez] AID - S0028-3908(17)30251-4 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2017.05.026 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Neuropharmacology. 2017 Sep 1;123:359-367. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2017.05.026. Epub 2017 May 29.