Scaffold-based discovery of indeglitazar, a PPAR pan-active anti-diabetic agent.
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Artis DR, Lin JJ, Zhang C, Wang W, Mehra U, Perreault M, Erbe D, Krupka HI, England BP, Arnold J, Plotnikov AN, Marimuthu A, Nguyen H, Will S, Signaevsky M, Kral J, Cantwell J, Settachatgull C, Yan DS, Fong D, Oh A, Shi S, Womack P, Powell B, Habets G, West BL, Zhang KY, Milburn MV, Vlasuk GP, Hirth KP, Nolop K, Bollag G, Ibrahim PN, Tobin JF
Scaffold-based discovery of indeglitazar, a PPAR pan-active anti-diabetic agent.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 Jan 6;106(1):262-7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0811325106. Epub 2008 Dec 30.
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In a search for more effective anti-diabetic treatment, we used a process coupling low-affinity biochemical screening with high-throughput co-crystallography in the design of a series of compounds that selectively modulate the activities of all three peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs), PPARalpha, PPARgamma, and PPARdelta. Transcriptional transactivation assays were used to select compounds from this chemical series with a bias toward partial agonism toward PPARgamma, to circumvent the clinically observed side effects of full PPARgamma agonists. Co-crystallographic characterization of the lead molecule, indeglitazar, in complex with each of the 3 PPARs revealed the structural basis for its PPAR pan-activity and its partial agonistic response toward PPARgamma. Compared with full PPARgamma-agonists, indeglitazar is less potent in promoting adipocyte differentiation and only partially effective in stimulating adiponectin gene expression. Evaluation of the compound in vivo confirmed the reduced adiponectin response in animal models of obesity and diabetes while revealing strong beneficial effects on glucose, triglycerides, cholesterol, body weight, and other metabolic parameters. Indeglitazar has now progressed to Phase II clinical evaluations for Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).