51239-46-4Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Structure-Based Drug Design of Mineralocorticoid Receptor Antagonists to Explore Oxosteroid Receptor Selectivity
Nordqvist, Anneli,O'Mahony, Gavin,Fridén-Saxin, Maria,Fredenwall, Marlene,Hogner, Anders,Granberg, Kenneth L.,Aagaard, Anna,B?ckstr?m, Stefan,Gunnarsson, Anders,Kaminski, Tim,Xue, Yafeng,Dellsén, Anita,Hansson, Eva,Hansson, Pia,Ivarsson, Ida,Karlsson, Ulla,Bamberg, Krister,Hermansson, Majlis,Georgsson, Jennie,Lindmark, Bo,Edman, Karl
supporting information, p. 50 - 65 (2017/01/17)
The mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) is a nuclear hormone receptor involved in the regulation of body fluid and electrolyte homeostasis. In this study we explore selectivity triggers for a series of nonsteroidal MR antagonists to improve selectivity over other members of the oxosteroid receptor family. A biaryl sulfonamide compound was identified in a high-throughput screening (HTS) campaign. The compound bound to MR with pKi=6.6, but displayed poor selectivity over the glucocorticoid receptor (GR) and the progesterone receptor (PR). Following X-ray crystallography of MR in complex with the HTS hit, a compound library was designed that explored an induced-fit hypothesis that required movement of the Met852 side chain. An improvement in MR selectivity of 11- to 79-fold over PR and 23- to 234-fold over GR was obtained. Given the U-shaped binding conformation, macrocyclizations were explored, yielding a macrocycle that bound to MR with pKi=7.3. Two protein–ligand X-ray structures were determined, confirming the hypothesized binding mode for the designed compounds.
BROMODOMAIN LIGANDS CAPABLE OF DIMERIZING IN AN AQUEOUS SOLUTION
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Paragraph 00502; 00502, (2015/06/11)
Described herein are monomers capable of forming a biologically useful multimer when in contact with one, two, three or more other monomers in an aqueous media. In one aspect, such monomers may be capable of binding to another monomer in an aqueous media (e.g. in vivo) to form a multimer (e.g. a dimer). Contemplated monomers may include a ligand moiety, a linker element, and a connector element that joins the ligand moiety and the linker element. In an aqueous media, such contemplated monomers may join together via each linker element and may thus be capable of modulating one or more biomolecules substantially simultaneously, e.g., modulate two or more binding domains on a protein or on different proteins.
