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  2. Discovery, design and synthesis of the first reported potent and selective sphingosine-1-phosphate 4 (S1P4) receptor antagonists

Discovery, design and synthesis of the first reported potent and selective sphingosine-1-phosphate 4 (S1P4) receptor antagonists

  • Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2011 Jun 15;21(12):3632-6. doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2011.04.097.
Miguel Guerrero 1 Mariangela Urbano Subash Velaparthi Jian Zhao Marie-Therese Schaeffer Steven Brown Hugh Rosen Edward Roberts
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  • 1 Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, United States.
Abstract

Selective S1P(4) receptor antagonists could be novel therapeutic agents for the treatment of influenza Infection in addition to serving as a useful tool for understanding S1P(4) receptor biological functions. 5-(2,5-Dichlorophenyl)-N-(2,6-dimethylphenyl)furan-2-carboxamide was identified from screening the Molecular Libraries-Small Molecule Repository (MLSMR) collection and selected as a promising S1P(4) antagonist hit with moderate in vitro potency and high selectivity against the other family receptor subtypes (S1P(1-3,5)). Rational chemical modifications of the hit allowed the disclosure of the first reported highly selective S1P(4) antagonists with low nanomolar activity and adequate physicochemical properties suitable for further lead-optimization studies.

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