Radioiodinated Styrylbenzenes and Thioflavins as Probes for Amyloid Aggregates was written by Zhuang, Z.-P.;Kung, M.-P.;Hou, C.;Skovronsky, D. M.;Gur, T. L.;Ploessl, K.;Trojanowski, J. Q.;Lee, V. M.-Y.;Kung, H. F.. And the article was included in Journal of Medicinal Chemistry in 2001.Formula: C12H16N2O This article mentions the following:
We report for the first time that small mol.-based radioiodinated ligands, showing selective binding to Aβ aggregates, cross the intact blood-brain barrier by simple diffusion. Four novel ligands showing preferential labeling of amyloid aggregates of Aβ(1-40) and Aβ(1-42) peptides, commonly associated with plaques in the brain of people with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), were developed. Two 125I-labeled styrylbenzenes, (E,E)-1-iodo-2,5-bis(3-hydroxycarbonyl-4-hydroxy)styrylbenzene, I (ISB), and (E,E)-1-iodo-2,5-bis(3-hydroxycarbonyl-4-methoxy)styrylbenzene, II (IMSB), and two 125I-labeled thioflavins, 2-[4′-(dimethylamino)phenyl]-6-iodobenzothiazole, III (TZDM), and 2-[4′-(4”-methylpiperazin-1-yl)phenyl]-6-iodobenzothiazole, IV (TZPI), were prepared at a high specific activity (2200 Ci/mmol). In vitro binding studies of these ligands showed excellent binding affinities with Kd values of 0.08, 0.13, 0.06, and 0.13 nM for aggregates of Aβ(1-40) and 0.15, 0.73, 0.14, and 0.15 nM for aggregates of Aβ(1-42), resp. Interestingly, under a competitive-binding assaying condition, different binding sites on Aβ(1-40) and Aβ(1-42) aggregates, which are mutually exclusive, were observed for styrylbenzenes and thioflavins. Autoradiog. studies of postmortem brain sections of a patient with Down’s syndrome known to contain primarily Aβ(1-42) aggregates in the brain showed that both [125I]-III and [125I]-IV labeled these brain sections, but [125I]-II, selective for Aβ(1-40) aggregates, exhibited very low labeling of the comparable brain section. Biodistribution studies in normal mice after an iv injection showed that [125I]-III and [125I]-IV exhibited excellent brain uptake and retention, the levels of which were much higher than those of [125I]-I and [125I]-II. These findings strongly suggest that the new radioiodinated ligands may be useful as biomarkers for studying Aβ(1-40) as well as Aβ(1-42) aggregates of amyloidogenesis in AD patients. In the experiment, the researchers used many compounds, for example, 4-(4-Methylpiperazin-1-yl)benzaldehyde (cas: 27913-99-1Formula: C12H16N2O).
4-(4-Methylpiperazin-1-yl)benzaldehyde (cas: 27913-99-1) belongs to piperazine derivatives. Piperazine is a fairly basic compound and is an amine solvent. Although many piperazine derivatives occur naturally, piperazine itself can be synthesized by reacting alcoholic ammonia with 1,2-dichloroethane, by the action of sodium and ethylene glycol on ethylene diamine hydrochloride, or by reduction of pyrazine with sodium in ethanol.Formula: C12H16N2O
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