PMID- 32891856 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20210302 LR - 20211002 IS - 1090-2120 (Electronic) IS - 0045-2068 (Print) IS - 0045-2068 (Linking) VI - 103 DP - 2020 Oct TI - Development of multitarget inhibitors for the treatment of pain: Design, synthesis, biological evaluation and molecular modeling studies. PG - 104165 LID - S0045-2068(20)31462-0 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.bioorg.2020.104165 [doi] AB - Multitarget-directed ligands are a promising class of drugs for discovering innovative new therapies for difficult to treat diseases. In this study, we designed dual inhibitors targeting the human fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) enzyme and human soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH) enzyme. Targeting both of these enzymes concurrently with single target inhibitors synergistically reduces inflammatory and neuropathic pain; thus, dual FAAH/sEH inhibitors are likely to be powerful analgesics. Here, we identified the piperidinyl-sulfonamide moiety as a common pharmacophore and optimized several inhibitors to have excellent inhibition profiles on both targeted enzymes simultaneously. In addition, several inhibitors show good predicted pharmacokinetic properties. These results suggest that this series of inhibitors has the potential to be further developed as new lead candidates and therapeutics in pain management. CI - Copyright (c) 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. FAU - Wilt, Stephanie AU - Wilt S AD - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA 92831, United States. FAU - Kodani, Sean AU - Kodani S AD - Department of Entomology and Nematology, and UCD Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California Davis, Davis, CA 95616, United States. FAU - Le, Thanh N H AU - Le TNH AD - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA 92831, United States. FAU - Nguyen, Lato AU - Nguyen L AD - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA 92831, United States. FAU - Vo, Nghi AU - Vo N AD - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA 92831, United States. FAU - Ly, Tanya AU - Ly T AD - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA 92831, United States. FAU - Rodriguez, Mark AU - Rodriguez M AD - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA 92831, United States. FAU - Hudson, Paula K AU - Hudson PK AD - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA 92831, United States. FAU - Morisseau, Christophe AU - Morisseau C AD - Department of Entomology and Nematology, and UCD Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California Davis, Davis, CA 95616, United States. FAU - Hammock, Bruce D AU - Hammock BD AD - Department of Entomology and Nematology, and UCD Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California Davis, Davis, CA 95616, United States. FAU - Pecic, Stevan AU - Pecic S AD - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA 92831, United States. Electronic address: specic@fullerton.edu. LA - eng GR - P42 ES004699/ES/NIEHS NIH HHS/United States GR - R35 ES030443/ES/NIEHS NIH HHS/United States GR - SC2 GM135020/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20200828 PL - United States TA - Bioorg Chem JT - Bioorganic chemistry JID - 1303703 SB - IM MH - Humans MH - Models, Molecular MH - Molecular Docking Simulation/*methods MH - Pain/*drug therapy MH - Structure-Activity Relationship PMC - PMC7723751 MID - NIHMS1648000 OTO - NOTNLM OT - ADMET predictions OT - Designed multiple ligands OT - Docking experiments OT - Enzyme inhibition OT - Molecular modeling OT - Structure-Activity Relationship (SAR) study COIS- Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. EDAT- 2020/09/07 06:00 MHDA- 2021/03/03 06:00 PMCR- 2021/10/01 CRDT- 2020/09/06 20:25 PHST- 2020/07/09 00:00 [received] PHST- 2020/08/05 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2020/08/12 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2020/09/07 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/03/03 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2020/09/06 20:25 [entrez] PHST- 2021/10/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - S0045-2068(20)31462-0 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.bioorg.2020.104165 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Bioorg Chem. 2020 Oct;103:104165. doi: 10.1016/j.bioorg.2020.104165. Epub 2020 Aug 28.