Norharmane is an alkaloid widely present in living organisms and can also be chemically synthesized. It is a β-carboline derivative composed of indole and pyridine.
Application
Norharmane has been used:
as a β-carboline to study its effect on nigrostriatal dopamine (DA) neurons
as an internal standard in gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) analyses using Conidiobulus coronatus filtrates
as a β-carboline-3-carboxylic acid N-methylamide (CMA) analog to study its binding ability with Mcm2-7 (minichromosome maintenance)
Biochem/physiol Actions
Inhibitor of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO).
Norharmane and its derivative exhibit anti-cancer properties. It acts as a monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitor and might benefit Parkinson′s disease (PD). High levels of β-carboline in plasma are found in PD.
European journal of medicinal chemistry, 46(2), 636-646 (2011-01-05)
β-carboline derivatives are known as the lead compounds for anti-tumor agents. To examine an optimal structure for anti-tumor activity, we synthesized a variety of β-carboline derivatives, possessing a variety of substituents on the nitrogen atom of the amino group of
Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) is a heme dioxygenase which has been shown to be involved in the pathological immune escape of diseases such as cancer. The synthesis and structure-activity relationships (SAR) of a novel series of IDO inhibitors based on the
The assumption of near-universal bacterial detection by pattern recognition receptors is a foundation of immunology. The limits of this pattern recognition concept, however, remain undefined. As a test of this hypothesis, we determined whether mammalian cells can recognize bacteria that
European journal of medicinal chemistry, 43(7), 1489-1498 (2007-10-30)
Heuristic method (HM) and radial basis function neural network (RBFNN) methods were proposed to generate QSAR models for a set of non-benzodiazepine ligands at the benzodiazepine receptor (BzR). Descriptors calculated from the molecular structures alone were used to represent the
Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003), 40(34), 8611-8621 (2011-08-02)
Three novel Ru(II) complexes of the general formula [Ru(N-N)(2)(Norharman)(2)](SO(3)CF(3))(2), where N-N = 2,2'-bipyridine (bpy, 1), 1,10-phenanthroline (phen, 2), 4,7-diphenyl-1,10-phenanthroline (DIP, 3) and Norharman (9H-pyrido[3,4-b]indole) is a naturally occurring β-carboline alkaloid, have been synthesized and characterized. The molecular structures of 1
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