NOVOBIOCIN ANALOGUES AS NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS AND IN THE TREATMENT OF AUTOIMMUNE DISORDERS

• US 20100105630A1
• Filed: 10/12/2009
• Published: 04/29/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: University of Kansas
• Original Assignee: University of Kansas
• Inventors: Blagg, Brian S.J.
• Granted Patent: US 7,960,353 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 514/27
• CPC Class Codes: A61P 25/14 for treating abnormal movements, e.g. chorea, dyskinesia
• CPC Class Codes: A61P 25/16 Anti-Parkinson drugs
• CPC Class Codes: A61P 25/28 for treating neurodegenerative disorders of the central nervous system, e.g. nootropic agents, cognition enhancers, drugs for treating Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia
• CPC Class Codes: A61P 3/00 Drugs for disorders of the metabolism of the blood or the extracellular fluid A61P7/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61P 37/02 Immunomodulators
• CPC Class Codes: C07H 17/06 Benzopyran radicals

Abstract

Novobiocin analogues and pharmaceutical composition containing such compounds useful for the treatment and/or prevention of neurodegenerative disorders and autoimmune disorders.

Claims

1. A compound of the formula:

2. The compound N-(7-((2R,3R,4S,5R)-3,4-dihydroxy-5-methoxy-6,6-dimethyltetrahydro-2H-pyran-2-yloxy)-8-methyl-2-oxo-2H-chromen-3-yl)acetamide,

or a pharmaceutically acceptable ester thereof.

3. A pharmaceutical composition comprising a therapeutically effective amount of,

4. A method for treating or preventing a neurodegenerative disorder or an autoimmune disorder in a subject in need thereof comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of

5. The method of claim 4 wherein the neurodegenerative disorder is an amyloidosis.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein the amyloidosis is selected from the group consisting of Alzheimer'"'"'s disease, hereditary cerebral angiopathy, nonneuropathic hereditary amyloid, Down'"'"'s syndrome, macroglobulinemia, secondary familial Mediterranean fever, Muckle-Wells syndrome, multiple myeloma, pancreatic-related amyloidosis, cardiac-related amyloidosis, chronic hemodialysis arthropathy, Finnish amyloidosis, and Iowa amyloidosis.

7. The method of claim 4 wherein the neurodegenerative disorder is Alzheimer'"'"'s disease.

8. The method of claim 4 wherein the neurodegenerative disorder is dementia or memory loss.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein the dementia or memory loss in the subject occurs due to one or more of the group consisting of Alzheimer'"'"'s disease, vascular dementia, diffuse white matter disease, dementia of endocrine origin, dementia of metabolic origin, dementia of head trauma, dementia of diffuse brain damage, dementia pugilistica, age-related dementia, frontal lobe dementia, age-related dementia, age-related memory loss, senility, Pick'"'"'s disease, diffuse Lewy body disease, progressive supranuclear palsy, ALS-Parkinson'"'"'s-Dementia complex of Guam, Wernicke-Korsakoff s related dementia, subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, synucleinopathies, and primary progressive aphasia.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the dementia or memory loss in the subject occurs due to Alzheimer'"'"'s disease.

11. The method of claim 4 wherein the neurodegenerative disorder is selected from the group consisting of diabetic peripheral neuropathy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, degenerative ataxias, cortical basal degeneration, Huntington'"'"'s disease, Parkinson'"'"'s disease, striatonigral degeneration, Machado-Joseph disease/spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 degeneration, olivopontocerebellar degenerations, Gilles De La Tourette'"'"'s disease, bulbar palsy, pseudobulbar palsy, spinal muscular atrophy, spinobulbar muscular atrophy, primary lateral sclerosis, familial spastic paraplegia, Werdnig-Hoffmann disease, Kugelberg-Welander disease, Tay-Sach'"'"'s disease, Sandhoff disease, familial spastic disease, Wohifart-Kugelberg-Welander disease, spastic paraparesis, and progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy.

12. The method of claim 11 wherein the neurodegenerative disorder is amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or Parkinson'"'"'s disease.

13. The method of claim 4 wherein the neurodegenerative disorder results from one or more of the group consisting of embolic occlusion, thrombotic occlusion, intracranial hemorrhage of any type, intracranial lesions, intravertebral lesions, stroke, traumatic brain injury, schizophrenia, peripheral nerve damage, hypoglycemia, spinal cord injury, epilepsy, anoxia, and hypoxia.

14. The method of claim 4 wherein the autoimmune disorder is selected from the group consisting of multiple sclerosis, acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, Addison'"'"'s disease, Alopecia universalis, ankylosing spondylitisis, antiphospholipid antibody syndrome, aplastic anemia, autoimmune hepatitis autoimmune infertility, autoimmune thyroiditis, autoimmune neutropenia, Behget'"'"'s disease, bullous pemphigoid, Chagas'"'"' disease, cirrhosis, Coeliac disease, Crohn'"'"'s disease, Chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic active hepatitis, dense deposit disease, discoid lupus, dermatitis, luten-sensitive enteropathy, dysautonomia, endometriosis, glomerulonephritis, Goodpasture'"'"'s disease, Graves'"'"' disease, Guillain-Barre syndrome, Hashimoto'"'"'s disease, Hidradenitis suppurativa, idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura, insulin dependent diabetes mellitus, interstitial cystitis, mixed connective tissue disease, myasthenia gravis, neuromyotonia, opsoclonus myoclonus syndrome, optic neuritis, Ord'"'"'s thyroiditis, pemphigus vulgaris, pernicious anemia, polyarthritis, polymyositis, primary biliary cirrhosis, psoriasis, Reiter'"'"'s syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, sarcoidosis, scleroderma, Sjogren'"'"'s syndrome, systemic lupus erythematosus, Takayasu'"'"'s arteritis, temporal arteritis, ulcerative colitis, vitiligo, vulvodynia, warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia, and Wegener'"'"'s granulomatosis.

15. The method of claim 14 wherein the autoimmune disorder is multiple sclerosis.