PMID- 35466565 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20220622 LR - 20220727 IS - 1860-7187 (Electronic) IS - 1860-7179 (Linking) VI - 17 IP - 12 DP - 2022 Jun 20 TI - Discovery and Optimization of Piperazine Urea Derivatives as Soluble Epoxide Hydrolase (sEH) Inhibitors. PG - e202200137 LID - 10.1002/cmdc.202200137 [doi] AB - Soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH) is implicated as a potential therapeutic target for inflammation-related pathologies in the context of cardiovascular, central nervous system and metabolic diseases. In our search for novel sEH inhibitors, we designed and synthesized novel analogs of the piperazine urea derivative 4, a previously discovered dual microsomal prostaglandin E(2) synthase-1 (mPGES-1)/soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH) inhibitor, to evaluate their potential as sEH inhibitors. We identified two 1,3,4-oxadiazol-5-one and -thione congeners (compounds 19 and 20), which demonstrated selective sEH inhibition with IC(50) values in the two-digit nanomolar range (42 and 56 nM, respectively). These results suggest that the installation of terminal 1,3,4-oxadiazol-5-one/thione functions to the benzyl end can be regarded as a promising secondary pharmacophore in addition to the urea group for sEH inhibition, and compound 19 can be regarded as novel lead structure for further optimization of improved sEH inhibitors. CI - (c) 2022 Wiley-VCH GmbH. FAU - Capan, Irfan AU - Capan I AD - Department of Material and Material Processing Technologies, Technical Sciences Vocational College, Gazi University, 06374, Ankara, Turkey. FAU - Jordan, Paul M AU - Jordan PM AD - Department of Pharmaceutical/Medicinal Chemistry, Institute of Pharmacy, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Philosophenweg 14, 7743, Jena, Germany. FAU - Olgac, Abdurrahman AU - Olgac A AD - Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Gazi University, Tac Sok. No:3, 06560, Yenimahalle, Ankara, Turkey. FAU - Caliskan, Burcu AU - Caliskan B AD - Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Gazi University, Tac Sok. No:3, 06560, Yenimahalle, Ankara, Turkey. FAU - Kretzer, Christian AU - Kretzer C AD - Department of Pharmaceutical/Medicinal Chemistry, Institute of Pharmacy, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Philosophenweg 14, 7743, Jena, Germany. FAU - Werz, Oliver AU - Werz O AD - Department of Pharmaceutical/Medicinal Chemistry, Institute of Pharmacy, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Philosophenweg 14, 7743, Jena, Germany. FAU - Banoglu, Erden AU - Banoglu E AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-4737-1733 AD - Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Gazi University, Tac Sok. No:3, 06560, Yenimahalle, Ankara, Turkey. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20220512 PL - Germany TA - ChemMedChem JT - ChemMedChem JID - 101259013 RN - 0 (Enzyme Inhibitors) RN - 0 (Heterocyclic Compounds) RN - 0 (Piperazines) RN - 0 (Thiones) RN - 8W8T17847W (Urea) RN - EC 3.3.2.- (Epoxide Hydrolases) SB - IM MH - Enzyme Inhibitors/chemistry/pharmacology MH - *Epoxide Hydrolases/metabolism MH - *Heterocyclic Compounds MH - Piperazines/pharmacology MH - Structure-Activity Relationship MH - Thiones MH - Urea OTO - NOTNLM OT - epoxide hydrolase OT - inhibitor OT - oxadiazole OT - piperazine OT - urea EDAT- 2022/04/26 06:00 MHDA- 2022/06/23 06:00 CRDT- 2022/04/25 06:17 PHST- 2022/04/21 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2022/03/15 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/04/26 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/06/23 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/04/25 06:17 [entrez] AID - 10.1002/cmdc.202200137 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - ChemMedChem. 2022 Jun 20;17(12):e202200137. doi: 10.1002/cmdc.202200137. Epub 2022 May 12.