TY - JOUR
T1 - Novel TRPV1 Modulators with Reduced Pungency Induce Analgesic Effects in Mice
AU - Treat, Anny
AU - Henri, Vianie
AU - Liu, Junke
AU - Shen, Joyce
AU - Gil-Silva, Mauricio
AU - Morales, Alejandro
AU - Rade, Avaneesh
AU - Tidgewell, Kevin Joseph
AU - Kolber, Benedict
AU - Shen, Young
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Authors. Published by American Chemical Society
PY - 2022/1/25
Y1 - 2022/1/25
N2 - Capsaicin, the compound in hot chili peppers responsible for their pungency and an agonist of the transient receptor potential cation channel, subfamily V, member 1 (TRPV1), has long been known to promote the desensitization of nociceptors at high concentrations. This has led to the utilization and implementation of topical capsaicin cream as an analgesic to treat acute and chronic pain. Critically, the application of capsaicin cream is limited due to capsaicin’s high pungency, which is experienced prior to analgesia. To combat this issue, novel capsaicin analogues were developed to provide analgesia with reduced pungency. Analogues reported in this paper add to and show some differences from previous structure–activity relationship (SAR) studies of capsaicin-like molecules against TRPV1, including the necessity of phenol in the aromatic “A-region”, the secondary amide in the “B-region”, and modifications in the hydrophobic “C-region”. This provided a new framework for de novo small-molecule design using capsaicin as the starting point. In this study, we describe the synthesis of capsaicin analogues, their in vitro activity in Ca2+ assays, and initial in vivo pungency and feasibility studies of capsaicin analogues YB-11 and YB-16 as analgesics. Our results demonstrate that male and female mice treated with YB capsaicin analogues showed diminished pain-associated behavior in the spontaneous formalin assay as well as reduced thermal sensitivity in the hotplate assay.
AB - Capsaicin, the compound in hot chili peppers responsible for their pungency and an agonist of the transient receptor potential cation channel, subfamily V, member 1 (TRPV1), has long been known to promote the desensitization of nociceptors at high concentrations. This has led to the utilization and implementation of topical capsaicin cream as an analgesic to treat acute and chronic pain. Critically, the application of capsaicin cream is limited due to capsaicin’s high pungency, which is experienced prior to analgesia. To combat this issue, novel capsaicin analogues were developed to provide analgesia with reduced pungency. Analogues reported in this paper add to and show some differences from previous structure–activity relationship (SAR) studies of capsaicin-like molecules against TRPV1, including the necessity of phenol in the aromatic “A-region”, the secondary amide in the “B-region”, and modifications in the hydrophobic “C-region”. This provided a new framework for de novo small-molecule design using capsaicin as the starting point. In this study, we describe the synthesis of capsaicin analogues, their in vitro activity in Ca2+ assays, and initial in vivo pungency and feasibility studies of capsaicin analogues YB-11 and YB-16 as analgesics. Our results demonstrate that male and female mice treated with YB capsaicin analogues showed diminished pain-associated behavior in the spontaneous formalin assay as well as reduced thermal sensitivity in the hotplate assay.
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U2 - 10.1021/acsomega.1c05727
DO - 10.1021/acsomega.1c05727
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85124103090
VL - 7
SP - 2929
EP - 2946
JO - ACS Omega
JF - ACS Omega
IS - 3
ER -