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Letter pubs.acs.org/acsmedchemlettFused 3Hydroxy-3-trifluoromethylpyrazoles Inhibit Mutant Huntingtin ToxicitySalvatore La Rosa,*,,?Tiziana Benicchi, Laura Bettinetti, Ilaria Ceccarelli, Enrica Diodato, Cesare Federico, Pasquale Fiengo, Davide Franceschini, Ozgun Gokce, Freddy Heitz,, Giulia Lazzeroni, Ruth Luthi-Carter,, Letizia Magnoni, Vincenzo Miragliotta,, Carla Scali, and Michela ValacchiSiena Biotech SpA, Strada del Petriccio e Belriguardo 35, 53100 Siena, Italy Brain Mind Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, SwitzerlandS * Supporting InformationABSTRACT: Here, we describe the choice and optimization of a chemical series active in each a full-length and a fragmentbased Huntington’s disease (HD) assay. Twenty-four thousand small molecules have been screened within a phenotypic HD assay, identifying a series of compounds bearing a 3-hydroxy-3trifluoromethylpyrazole moiety as in a position to revert the toxicity induced by full-length mutant Htt by up to 50 . A chemical exploration about the series led to the identification of compound 4f, which demonstrated to become active within a Htt171- 82Q rat major striatal neuron assay and also a PC12-Exon-1 primarily based assay.1,2,5-Oxadiazole-3,4-diamine web This compound was chosen for testing in R6/2 mice, in which it was well-tolerated and showed a good impact on physique weight and a positive trend in preventing ventricular volume enlargment. These research give sturdy rationale for further testing the potential added benefits of 3-hydroxy-3trifluoromethylpyrazoles in treating HD.157327-48-5 Chemical name Keywords and phrases: Huntington’s disease, mutant Htt toxicity, phenotypic screening, 3-hydroxy-3-trifluoromethylpyrazoles, ADME, R6/2 mouse modeluntington’s illness (HD) is an autosomal-dominant neurodegenerative brain disorder caused by a CAG trinucleotide repeat expansion (35 repeats), which encodes an abnormally extended polyglutamine (polyQ) tract in the N-terminal a part of a large protein called huntingtin (Htt).PMID:29844565 1 Mutant Htt is topic to cleavage by proteolytic enzymes1 and to aberrant preRNA splicing,two which outcomes in the generation of N-terminal fragments containing the expanded polyQ.1 These fragments are able to aggregate with themselves along with other proteins and form massive nuclear and cytoplasmatic inclusions.3 Though the scientific community continues to be debating the part of these aggregates, the affected neurons suffer from several distinctive dysfunctions altering the normal cell equilibrium and major to apoptotic or necrotic cell death.4 Amongst these dysfunctions, reduced ATP levels, decreased Ca2+ uptake, o.