Pyridoxine-resveratrol hybrids as novel inhibitors of MAO-B with antioxidant and neuroprotective activities for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease

Abstract A series of pyridoxine-resveratrol hybrids were designed and synthesized as monoamine oxidase B inhibitors for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease. Most of them exhibited potent inhibitory activities on MAO-B with high selectivity. Specifically, compounds 12a, 12g and 12l showed the most excellent inhibition to hMAO-B with the IC50 values of 0.01 μM, 0.01 μM and 0.02 μM, respectively. Further reversibility study demonstrated that 12a and 12l were reversible and 12g was irreversible MAO-B inhibitors. Molecular docking studies of MAO revealed the binding mode and high selectivity of these compounds with MAO-B. In addition, these three representative compounds also exhibited low cytotoxicity and excellent neuroprotective effect in the test on H2O2-induced PC-12 cell injury. Moreover, 12a, 12g and 12l showed good antioxidant activities and high blood-brain barrier permeability. Overall, all of these results highlighted 12a, 12g and 12l were potential and excellent MAO-B inhibitors for PD treatment.