Discovery and Preclinical Evaluation of BMS-711939, an Oxybenzylglycine Based PPARα Selective Agonist

  • ACS Med Chem Lett. 2016 Apr 4;7(6):590-4. doi: 10.1021/acsmedchemlett.6b00033.
Yan Shi  1 Jun Li  1 Lawrence J Kennedy  1 Shiwei Tao  1 Andrés S Hernández  1 Zhi Lai  1 Sean Chen  1 Henry Wong  1 Juliang Zhu  1 Ashok Trehan  1 Ngiap-Kie Lim  1 Huiping Zhang  1 Bang-Chi Chen  1 Kenneth T Locke  1 Kevin M O'Malley  1 Litao Zhang  1 Rai Ajit Srivastava  1 Bowman Miao  1 Daniel S Meyers  1 Hossain Monshizadegan  1 Debra Search  1 Denise Grimm  1 Rongan Zhang  1 Thomas Harrity  1 Lori K Kunselman  1 Michael Cap  1 Jodi Muckelbauer  1 Chiehying Chang  1 Stanley R Krystek  1 Yi-Xin Li  1 Vinayak Hosagrahara  1 Lisa Zhang  1 Pathanjali Kadiyala  1 Carrie Xu  1 Michael A Blanar  1 Robert Zahler  1 Ranjan Mukherjee  1 Peter T W Cheng  1 Joseph A Tino  1
Affiliations
  • 1. Research and Development, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company , 350 Carter Road, Hopewell, New Jersey 08540, United States.
Abstract

BMS-711939 (3) is a potent and selective Peroxisome Proliferator-activated Receptor (PPAR) α agonist, with an EC50 of 4 nM for human PPARα and >1000-fold selectivity vs human PPARγ (EC50 = 4.5 μM) and PPARδ (EC50 > 100 μM) in PPAR-GAL4 transactivation assays. Compound 3 also demonstrated excellent in vivo efficacy and safety profiles in preclinical studies and thus was chosen for further preclinical evaluation. The synthesis, structure-activity relationship (SAR) studies, and in vivo pharmacology of 3 in preclinical animal models as well as its ADME profile are described.

Keywords
Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) α selective agonist; high fat fed hamster model; human ApoA1 transgenic mice; pharmacokinetics.
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