Lecture 32/33 Flashcards
Anticholinoesterases - Feng
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AChEI
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- Indirect acting cholinomimetics
- Increase ACh by decreasing AChE hydrolysis
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AChE + Hydrolysis
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- ACh = ester
- ACh signaling is terminated by catalytic ester hydrolysis by AChE
- AChE cleaves 10,000 ACh per second, VERY efficient, reaching almost diffusion reaction rates
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Electrophiles + Nucleophiles
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- Electrophiles love electrons (electron deficient)
- Cleavage of esters from nucleophilic attack
- Nucleophile has lone pair of electrons that donate and form new bond to electrophile
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Acid-Catalyzed Hydrolysis
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- Ester reversibly goes between being a weak and strong electrophile by transferring partial charges
- Hydrolysis in increased by the transforming into a strong electrophile which activates the carbonyl carbon
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Base-Catalyzed Hydrolysis
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-Accelerated by a strong nucleophile like -OH
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Catalytic Triad - AChE
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- serine hydrolase has triad: Glu-His-Ser
- Serine acts as the nucleophile
- Histadine residue increases the nucleophilicity by removing proton from serine
- Glutamate interacts with imidazole to orient
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Hydrolysis Steps
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- Nucleophilic attack of carbonyl carbon by deprotonated serine (base-catalyzed), acetylated AChE = inactive
- Regeneration - assisted by histadine group (acid-catalyzed), crucial step for AChEI, when acetylated with carbamyl or phosphate the enzyme is more stable when inactive and hydrolysis take a lot longer
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AChE + Acid/Base Catalysis
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- Base-catalyzed hydrolysis portion: -OH from serine in nucleophilic attack
- Acid-catalyzed hydrolysis portion - imidazole proton protonating carbonyl O
- Makes this enzyme super efficient with fast rates by utilized both aspects
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Ester AChE Inhibitors
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- Classic
- Carbamates or phosphoesters
- Compete for site of activation
- Close in structural and chemical properties to ACh
- Inhibits AChE so that ACh can’t bind and it returns to the receptor to activate it
- Same effect as cholinergic agonist
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Reversible Inhibitor Types
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- Substrates that slow hydrolytic regeneration (carbamates)
2. Binds with AChE with greater affinity but does NOT react as substrate (edrophonium)
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Carbamyl Inhibitors
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- Esters of carbamic acid
- Interacts with AChE as a substrate but increases the time to regenerate enzyme (Ex: insecticide)
- Minutes to regenerate, but the enzyme will work again (reversible)
- Form covalent bond with Serine-O
- Slower regeneration rate since carbonyl C of carbamate is less electrophilic than acetate (water is less attracted to it)
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Electronic Factors
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-Carbonyl groups are stabilized by delocalizing nitrogen lone pair onto the carbonyl
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Aryl Carbamate
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- Better than alkyl since aryl is a better leaving group
- Phenoxide anion drives reaction to completion with serine
- Therefore, carbamylates AChE quickly to inhibit it
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Physostigmine: SAR
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-Tertiary amine
-Natural product from African calabar bean
-Activity varies based on pH (more activity at lower pH), contributes that the positive charge is important for activity
1. Carbamate = essential (equiv. to ester)
2 Aromatic ring = important (good leaving group)
3. Pyrrolidine N = important, ionized in blood, equiv. to quart. N of ACh
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Physostigmine Analogs
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- Miotine
2. Neostigmine
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Miotine
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- Simplified analog of Physostigmine
- Susceptible to hydrolysis
- Crosses BBB as free base
- CNS effects
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Neostigmine
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- Fully ionized
- Doesn’t cross BBB
- No CNS effects
- Constant inhibition activity regardless of pH
- More stable to hydrolysis by adding extra N-Me group
- Carbamylates AChE
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Neostigmine SARs
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- Carbamate with extra N-Me
- Benzene ring
- Quart. Ammonium
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Edrophonium
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- Short acting inhibitor that binds to ionic site but NOT esterase site of AChE
- simple alcohol with quart. ammonium group, binds electrostatically by hydrogen bonds
- Edrophonium doesn’t make covalent bonds with AChE
- Enzyme inhibiting complex is short lived and therefore short acting
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Alzheimer’s + AChEI
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-Important because there is decreased activity of chol. neurons, therefore increasing ACh level in brain
-This combats the loss of ACh in brain from death of chol. neurons
EX: Rivastigmine (Exelon) - carbamate-derived AChEI, analog of Physostigmine
Donepezil (Aricept) - untypical AChEI that reacts with active and peripheral site
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Non-Classic AChEI
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-Binds to AChE with higher affinity than ACh but doesn’t react with enzyme as substrate
EX: Tacrine and Velnacrine
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Tacrine
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- Approved by FDA for Alzheimer’s
- D/C in 2013
- Tertiary amines
- Well absorbed
- Used systemically
- Will cross BBB and enter CNS
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Irreversible AChEI
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- Phosphoesters - pesticides
- Organo-phosphates undergo initial binding and hydrolysis by the enzyme, resulting in phosphorylated active site
- Covalent phosphorous-enzyme bonds are VERY stable and therefore VERY slow to hydrolyze (hours)
- Much longer duration of action which is considered “irreversible” since new enzyme synthesis if required to recover enzyme function
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Aging of AChEI + ChE Reaction
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- Aging is from dealkylation from partial hydrolysis of phosphate =O to -OH
- Results are poor electrophiles
- These poor electrophiles don’t allow for hydrolysis to activate or reaction with antidote to occur
- Phosphorous atom of anionic P is less electrophilic
- Explains why these were used for insecticides and in chemical warfare (their use here pushed for the research of antidotes)
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Warfare Use of Organo-Phosphorous Compounds
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- Deadly agent in warfare (Iraq 1980-88) and terrorism (Tokyo Subway Attack 1995)
- Agent irreversibly inhibits AChE, “permanent” activation of chol. receptors by agent which leads to asphyxia due to inability to control pulmonary and diaphragm muscles which causes death
- AChE disabled for hours to days
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DIFD
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- Agent used in warfare
- Irreversible phosphorylation
- F = good leaving group
- Aging process occurs
- P-O bond is very stable (Ser-O-P)
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Organo-Phosphorous Antidote
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- Needs to cleave P-O bond
- AChE disabled, regeneration via antidote only occurs BEFORE aging
- Aged AChE is permanently disabled
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Antidote Design
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- Strong nucleophile is required to cleave P-O bond
- Needs to be suitable to cleave phosphate esters
- Water is too weak
- Hydroxylamine is a stronger nucleophile but is too toxic for clinical use
- Therefore, need to increase its selectivity by increasing its binding interactions
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PAM
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- Pyridine Aldoxime Methiodide
- Oxime = chemical compound belonging to imines
- When R1 = organix side chain and R2 = H, then its an oxime
- Quat. N is added to bind to anionic region of receptor
- Side chain designed to place hydroxylamine moiety in correct position relative to P-Serine bond
- Pralidoxime is a million times more effective than hydroxylamine
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PAM Nuc- Site
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- Oximes = used to reactivate phosphorylated AChE
- 2-PAM has nucleophilic site (N-OH) that interacts with phosphorylated site on AChE
- High degree of selectivity and strong binding affinity for AChE (due to positive charge) and carrier hydroxylamine-like nucleophile close to P-Serine
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PAM Mechanism
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- Oxime nucleophilically attacks the phosphorous atom
- Frees serine from phosphate group
- 1st line of defense against nerve gas since it reactivates ACh
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Limits of Pralidoxime
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- Only available agent to be determined as clinically effective as antidote for phosphate ester AChE poisoning
- Can inhibit AChE at doses higher than optimal dose
- Quat. ammonium can’t cross BBB
- Aging decreases 2-PAM and other oxime reactivators’ effectiveness
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ProPAM
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- Prodrug of 2-PAM
- Passes BBB as free base
- Oxidized in CNS to 2-PAM by riboflavin
- Then reactivated phosphorylated AChE in CNS
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Medicinal Organophosphates
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- Phospholine Iodide - used for glaucoma
- Quat. N added to increase binding (more selective, lower doses, safer)
- Utilizes similar concept to PAM
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Additional Functional Groups
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- Added on in components of nerve gas and medications
- Adding Quat. N adds extra ionic binding
- Stronger binding to AChE
- Insecticides like this are toxic and must be handled with extreme caution
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Parathion –> Paraoxon (Insecticides)
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- Thiophosphate insecticides are lipid soluble and rapidly absorbed
- Compounds have little AChEI activity since P -> S isn’t as nucleophilic as P -> O
- Rapidly bioactivated by desulfization by microsomal oxidation in insects to afford oxo derivatives to phosphate esters that are more potent
- Insects have more oxidizing enzymes (like P450s) than we do
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Parathion in Mammals
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- Low AChEI activity
- Metabolized into an inactive metabolite and is excreted
- Poor detoxified though due to lack of carboxylate ester, therefore still dangerous to humans
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Malathion –> Malaoxon
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- Detoxified in birds and humans
- Less toxic overall as insecticide
- Carboxylate ester bond is the site of detoxification
- Metabolized to a less toxic carboxylic acid metabolite which is rapidly excreted in urine as carboxylate anions in humans
- Lower esterase activity in insects, leading to their death
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Aging + Malathion
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- With at least one phosphoester group, aging occurs in insects
- Doesn’t happen in birds and humans since it is rapidly metabolized at carboxylate ester site
- Two ester types in malathion: phosphoester and carboxylate ester
