手性药物合成中的生物转化

目前手性药物的发展非常迅速,本文介绍了利用微生物及其酶系作为生物催化剂,进行外消旋底物的拆分或前手性底物的不对称化,以合成手性药物的生物转化方法;并评述了生物转化在合成手性药物这一领域的应用现状及今后的发展趋势。     

甾体生物转化技术研究的现状与进展

从半合成原料、菌种选育及改良和生物转化新技术与新工艺(包括底物的物理/化学助溶法,新型转化体系和细胞通透性改良法)等方面对近几年来甾体生物转化进展进行综述。可以预测,在甾体药物的工业化生产过程中,生物转化技术所占比例将大幅度提高。     

利用微生物重组技术促进羰基不对称还原研究进展

手性醇是许多手性药物合成的关键手性砌块,利用微生物细胞催化相应前手性羰基化合物不对称还原,是合成手性醇的重要方法之一。但应用野生微生物催化时,反应的时空产率、立体选择性较低。详细介绍了利用微生物重组技术以促进前手性羰基化合物不对称还原反应合成手性醇的国内外研究进展。从酶的种类、表达系统以及辅酶再生系统3个方面对重组细胞催化反应体系的构建进行了概述。同时按照反应底物的类型,对重组微生物在催化不同类型羰基化合物不对称还原合成手性醇中的应用分别进行了归纳和介绍。     

不对称还原前手性芳香酮微生物的筛选及反应特性

含芳香基手性醇是许多手性药物合成的关键手性砌块,生物催化不对称还原前手性酮是合成该类醇的重要方法之一.以4'-氯-苯乙酮为模型底物,从土壤中筛选得到一株能高效催化前手性芳香酮不对称还原合成相应手性醇的菌株,鉴定表明该菌株为白地霉( Geotrichum candid ).进一步考察了其催化4'-氯-苯乙酮不对称还原的反应特性,发现还原4'-氯-苯乙酮的产物主要为 S-4'-氯苯乙醇.在合适的反应条件下,其产率达到35%,对映选择性高于97%.     

假单胞菌单加氧酶基因的克隆表达及其在手性亚砜生物催化合成中的活性分析

单加氧酶催化的硫醚底物不对称氧化反应是手性亚砜类药物绿色合成的新途径之一,而寻求高催化效率和高底物耐受性的硫醚单加氧酶仍是其难点和瓶颈。本研究从前期获得的能高效合成手性亚砜化合物的菌株中筛选和克隆了2个单加氧酶基因,构建相应的表达载体并诱导表达重组蛋白,最后以苯甲硫醚为底物来初步探讨重组蛋白在生物催化合成苯甲亚砜中的活性。结果显示,成功构建了2个基因的表达载体并获得了大量的可溶性重组蛋白。而且,这2个重组蛋白均表现出了一定的生物催化活性,能将少量的苯甲硫醚底物转化为苯甲亚砜产物。本研究为将来进一步利用重组酶蛋白生物催化合成手性亚砜类化合物打下了一定的基础。     

基于噁唑烷酮的不对称催化合成构建多官能化手性氨基酸类化合物

多官能化手性氨基酸及其衍生物是一类重要的手性药物以及合成手性药的关键中间体,如现在大量用于临床的左甲状腺素、赖诺普利、阿莫西林、缬沙坦、头孢氨苄以及青霉素等。进行多官能化手性氨基酸类化合物的不对称催化合成,可为新型化学药的设计与发现开辟新的视野。噁唑烷酮(Azlactone)被证明是合成四取代氨基酸衍生物的优秀底物。可通过不对称催化手段向其中引入需要的基团,再经多取代的噁唑烷酮直接开环得到一系列的目标化合物。本文主要综述了近年来基于恶唑烷酮的不对称催化反应构建四取代氨基酸类化合物的研究。     

南沙链霉菌来源细胞色素P450酶CYP154C34的表征及生物转化

【目的】P450酶作为一种多功能生物催化剂,可在温和条件下高区域和立体选择性地催化复杂化合物中未活化的C-H键,因此P450酶在化工原料合成、环境污染物降解及药物合成等领域都具有重要作用。本文对南沙链霉菌基因组中的一个新颖的P450酶CYP154C34进行研究,通过构建异源表达和全细胞生物转化重组菌探究其功能。【方法】构建2种全细胞生物转化BL21(DE3)重组菌(含p ET28a-CYP154C34-RhFRED和pET28a-CYP154C34+pACYCDuet-Pdx/PdR)和1种异源表达BL21(DE3)重组菌(含pET28a-CYP154C34)。通过全细胞生物转化的方式筛选底物,分析催化功能及产物结构。比较2种全细胞生物转化重组菌和体外酶反应对底物的转化率。分析CYP154C34和不同底物及底物类似物的亲和力。【结果】通过底物筛选和产物鉴定发现CYP154C34可催化包括孕酮、睾酮、雄烯二酮在内的9种甾体化合物16α位羟基化。通过2种不同还原伴侣的全细胞体系及体外酶反应对底物转化率的比较,发现含有pET28a-CYP154C34-RhFRED的BL21(DE3)重组菌的...     

胺脱氢酶催化合成手性胺的机遇与挑战

光学纯的手性胺是一类重要的手性砌块,广泛应用于药物、天然产物、精细化学品等化合物的合成中。手性胺的酶促合成方法因立体选择性高、反应条件温和、反应过程绿色等优点,引起了学术界与工业界的广泛关注。近年来,一类新颖的胺脱氢酶被报道,其能够利用廉价氨作为氨基供体,催化酮的不对称还原胺化,成为一种有潜力的手性胺合成生物催化剂。在胺脱氢酶的发现、分子改造、底物谱拓展、过程强化、多酶级联构建等方面已取得了显著的进展。本文中,笔者对该类酶取得的研究进展进行总结,并预测其未来的研究趋势和应用中面临的机遇与挑战。     

微生物法还原氯代苯乙酮制备手性醇

手性醇是合成手性药物、农业化学品、香料和液晶等物质的重要中间体[1] 。 2 1世纪是手性药物发展迅速的时代 ,手性醇合成方法的成熟与改进对于手性药物的合成具有积极的促进作用。光学活性的苯乙醇及其衍生物可用于合成手性药物 ,如 :L 氯丙那林、R 沙丁胺醇[2 ] 、R 肾上腺素、S 心得安、S 舒喘宁、S 氟西汀和R 托莫西汀[3,4 ] 等。目前 ,生产手性醇的主要方法有化学法和生物法两种[5] 。利用微生物中酶的立体选择性能够合成一些化学方法难以合成的手性中间体[5] 。化学法中采用的反应体系一般为有机溶剂 ,而微生物法采用水相体系 ,微…     

Penicillium raistrickii 15α羟基化左旋乙基甾烯双酮工艺研究

通过生物转化技术对甾体化合物左旋乙基甾烯双酮进行15α位羟基化,合成了重要的药物中间体15α-羟基左旋乙基甾烯双酮,对生物转化工艺进行了优化。重点对底物的助溶剂进行了筛选,同时对培养基成分,接种量,初始pH,通气量,投料浓度,投料时间,转化时间等转化条件进行了优化。结果表明:在摇瓶发酵中,Penicilliumraistrickii对甾体化合物左旋乙基甾烯双酮生物转化,产物15α-羟基左旋乙基甾烯双酮转化率达到60%,在发酵罐放大试验中,转化率达到50%以上。具有工业生产前景。     

Commonly used chiral drugs: A survey

Initial results of a comparative survey of commonly used chiral drugs are presented. The survey considered the differences between drugs used in 1982 with those in use in 1991. Two major conclusions were reached: the use of single isomer chiral drugs had increased from 31.1% in 1982 to 34.3% in 1991 and the proportion of synthetic single isomer chiral drugs available in 1991 was considerably greater than in 1982. © 1993 Wiley-Liss, Inc.     

Implications of chirality and geometric isomerism in some psychoactive drugs and their metabolites

Many drugs contain a chiral centre, or such a centre is introduced during metabolism of the drug in man and in animals. If a single chiral centre is present, the drug will normally exist as a mixture of two enantiomers, of which one may have quite different pharmacologic and/or toxic effects than the other. Chiral drugs that are used in psychiatry, and some other pharmacologically related drugs are identified, and the implications of the presence of one or two chiral centres in these drugs are discussed. Differences in pharmacologic properties of drug and metabolite enantiomers are identified and discussed. Also reviewed are the properties of some drugs used in psychiatry that both are chiral and display geometric isomerism.     

Separation of drug enantiomers by liquid chromatography and capillary electrophoresis, using immobilized proteins as chiral selectors

Proteins display interesting chiral discrimination properties owing to multiple possibilities of intermolecular interactions with chiral compounds. This review deals with proteins which have been used as immobilized chiral selectors for the enantioseparation of drugs in liquid chromatography and capillary electrophoresis. The main procedures allowing the immobilization of proteins onto matrices, such as silica and zirconia particles, membranes and capillaries are first presented. Then the factors affecting the enantioseparation of drugs in liquid chromatography, using various protein-based chiral stationary phases (CSPs), are reviewed and discussed. Last, chiral separations already achieved using immobilized protein selectors in affinity capillary electrochromatography (ACEC) are presented and compared in terms of efficiency, stability and reproducibility.     

Investigation of the enantioselectivity and enantiomeric elution order of some piperidine-2,6-dione drugs on chiralcel OD column

The enantioselectivity and enantiomeric separation of five racemic piperidine-2,6-dione compounds, on the cellulose tris(3,5-dimethylphenyl carbamate) chiral stationary phase Chiralcel OD-CSP were investigated under the same chromatographic conditions. This class of drugs includes glutethimide, aminoglutethimide, cyclohexylaminoglutethimide, pyridoglutethimide, and phenglutarimide. The results revealed that chiral recognition and the binding sites of these drugs on the Chiralcel OD column are similar, regardless of the absolute configuration of the individual enantiomers. A possible chiral recognition mechanism(s) for this class of drugs and the CSP is presented. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.     

The importance of stereoselective determination of drugs in the clinical laboratory

About 56% of the drugs currently in use are chiral compounds, and 88% of these chiral synthetic drugs are used therapeutically as racemates. Only a few of these drugs qualify for a stereospecific determination in a clinical laboratory for therapeutic drug monitoring of patients. If the qualitative and quantitative pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic effects are similar, the enantiomers do not need to be separated. However, if the metabolism of the different stereoisomers is handled by different enzymes which are either polymorphic or can be induced or inhibited, and if their pharmacodynamic effects have differences either in strength or in quality, enantiospecific analysis is urgently needed. Unfortunately, there are many racemic drugs where the stereospecificity of the metabolism and/or the pharmacodynamic effects of the enantiomers is not known today. For these drugs, there is a great need for studies concentrating on these differences to improve treatment of the patients.     

Significance of mobile phase composition in enantioseparation of chiral drugs by HPLC on a cellulose-based chiral stationary phase

Eight randomly selected pharmaceuticals, which included ibuprofen, ketoprofen, albuterol, acebutolol, propafenone, betaxolol, methylphenidate, and homatropine, were directly separated on a cellulose tris(4-methylbenzoate) chiral stationary phase (CSP) without derivatization via normal phase mode HPLC. Enantioresolution was achieved by the optimization of the type and the ratio of mobile phase modifiers and additives. The modifiers included alcohols; the mobile phase additives were trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) and triethylamine (TEA). It was found that methanol and ethanol were superior to isopropanol as mobile phase modifiers for enhancing chiral separation of some of the chiral drugs. The results also demonstrated that TFA has a dominant effect on chiral separations for both acidic and basic chiral drugs, although for some basic drug such as homatropine, TEA was more beneficial at improving enantioseparation. The separation of acebutolol enantiomers was achieved for the first time by adding both TFA and TEA to the mobile phase. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that the applicability of cellulose based CSPs can be expanded by controlling the mobile phase compositions through the addition of trace amounts of achiral additives and the selection of the appropriate alcoholic modifier. © 1996 Wiley-Liss, Inc.     

Analysis of enantiomers of chiral phenethylamine drugs by capillary gas chromatography/mass spectrometry/flame-ionization detection and pre-column chiral derivatization

Several important chiral phenethylamine agents such as mexiletine, fenfluramine, amphetamine, methamphetamine and N-n-propylamphetamine show stereoselective disposition in humans and large differences in therapeutic relevance and toxicity. To analyze the enantiomers of chiral amine drugs, stereoselective methods were developed to separate those enantiomers on an achiral capillary gas chromatography by pre-column chiral derivatization with S-(-)-N-(fluoroacyl)-prolyl chloride. The stereoselectivity and sensitivity can be improved by chiral derivatization. The methods established offer enantioselective, simple, flexible and economic approaches for the analysis of chiral amine drug enantiomers in biological fluids. The methods have been used to determine S-(+)-methamphetamine in human forensic samples and to analyze enantiomers of amphetamine and fenfluramine in rat liver microsomes.     

Release of salbutamol sulphate and ketoprofen enantiomers from matrices containing HPMC and cellulose derivatives

We studied the release of salbutamol and ketoprofen enantiomers from HPMC K100M matrices containing two types of cellulose derivatives: cellulose tris (3,5-dimethylphenylcarbamate) and cellulose tris (2,3-dichlorophenylcarbamate), chiral excipients used as stationary phases for liquid chromatography. These matrices provided an extended release of both drugs. Ketoprofen release from formulations elaborated with cellulose tris (2,3-dichlorophenylcarbamate) was by anomalous transport, because the value of n (release exponent of the diffusion equation) ranged between 0.60-0.68, whereas for all other formulations the value of exponent n ranged from 0.50-0.54. The drug thus diffuses through the matrix and is released following a quasi-Fickian diffusion mechanism (stereoselective process). The matrices preferentially retained R-salbutamol and S-ketoprofen and cellulose tris (3,5-dimethylphenylcarbamate) showed more capacity of chiral discrimination for both drugs than cellulose tris (2,3-dichlorophenylcarbamate). Moreover, we observed that stereoselectivity is dependent on the amount of chiral excipient in the formulation. Diffusion tests confirmed the chiral interaction between drugs and cellulose derivatives observed in the dissolution assays except for matrices elaborated with ketoprofen and cellulose tris (2,3-dichlorophenylcarbamate), where the low stereoselectivity observed with the matrices is due to the presence of HPMC K100M. We conclude that the inclusion of these cellulose derivatives in HPMC matrices does not result in a relevant stereoselectivity with respect to the two drugs studied.     

A rapid enantioseparation system of capillary electrochromatography modified by electrostatic adsorption with transfersomes

Transfersomes were a special kind of nanomaterials with higher deformability and flexibility. A rapid method for coated-column preparation using anionic transfersomes as a coating material by electrostatic adsorption was developed. With carboxymethyl-β-cyclodextrin added in running buffer as the chiral selector, the capillary electrochromatography enantioseparation system based on the transfersomes-coated column modified by electrostatic adsorption was established for the first time. Propranolol and metoprolol acted as model drugs to evaluate the enantioseparation performance, these two basic drugs achieved baseline separation with satisfactory resolution and selection factor in this transfersomes-electrochromatography system but only partial separation in bare column system. In order to get the optimal separation condition, concentration of chiral selector, buffer pH, and applied voltage were systematically investigated. A rapid and efficient enantioseparation electrochromatography system was established and showed that transfersomes as the stationary phase could efficiently improve chiral separation effect.     

Biological significance of the enantiomeric purity of drugs

The knowledge that enantiomers of chiral compounds may differ widely in biological activity, qualitatively as well as quantitatively, is not new. Nevertheless most of the pharmacological data available to date on chiral drugs are obtained from experiments with racemates which assume that the biological activity generally resides in one of the enantiomers. With the advancements made in stereospecific synthesis and stereoselective analysis of drugs pharmacologists are now offered new possibilities to explore the steric aspects of drug action. This survey will discuss pharmacological data obtained with enantiomer pairs of phenylethylamine derivatives which interact with adrenergic mechanisms. The degree of resolution is seldom specified in published work on stereoselectivity of drugs. In a recent study from our laboratory the enantiomers of the β₂-adrenoceptor agonist formoterol and their diastereomers have been evaluated. We found that the (R;R)-enantiomer was by far the most potent. However, the relative potencies obtained for the (R;S)-, (S;R), and (S;S)- isomers were critically dependent on the degree of enantiomeric purity. It is concluded that the certainty of potency ratios observed for chiral drugs is limited by the enantiomeric purity and by unspecific effects of the least active enantiomer at very high concentrations. © 1993 Wiley-Liss, Inc.