CHEMBL5738441

Receptor Selection and Amplification (R-SAT) Assays: R-SAT's were generally performed with 50 ng/well of receptor and 20 ng/well of β-galactosidase plasmid DNA. All receptor constructs used were in the pSI mammalian expression vector (Promega Inc) as described previously. The 5-HT2A receptor gene was amplified by nested PCR (polymerase chain reaction) from brain cDNA using the oligodcoxynuclcotides based on the published sequence (Saltzman et al., Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. 1991, 181, 1469). For large-scale transfections, cells were transfected for 12-16 h, then trypsinized and frozen in DMSO. Frozen cells were later thawed, plated at 10,000-40,000 cells per well of a 96 well plate that contained a compound according to Formula (I). To run functional antagonist assays, cells and compounds were additionally combined with a fixed concentration (approximately 3× the previously determined EC50) of an agonist (usually 5-CT) at 5-HT2A or other appropriate agonists for other receptors. With both methods, cells were then grown in a humidified atmosphere with 5% ambient CO2 for five days. Media was then removed from the plates and marker gene activity was measured by the addition of the b-galactosidase substrate o-nitrophenyl b-D-galactopyranoside (ONPG, in PBS with 5% NP-40). The resulting colorimetric reaction was measured in a spectrophotometric plate reader (Titertek Inc.) at 420 nM. All data were analyzed using the computer program XLFit (IDBSm). Efficacy is the percent maximal repression compared to repression by a control compound (ritanserin in the case of 5-HT2A). pIC50 is the negative of the log(IC50), where IC50 is the calculated concentration in molar that produces 50% maximal repression. The compounds as provided herein were assayed as described herein. Compounds of Formulas (I) and (II), demonstrated high inhibition of the 5-HT2A receptor activity as shown in the table below. This data below indicates that compounds as provide herein may be useful as pharmaceutical agents.