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SUBMITTER: Rene O
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4360161 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
René Olivier O Fauber Benjamin P BP Boenig Gladys de Leon Gde L Burton Brenda B Eidenschenk Céline C Everett Christine C Gobbi Alberto A Hymowitz Sarah G SG Johnson Adam R AR Kiefer James R JR Liimatta Marya M Lockey Peter P Norman Maxine M Ouyang Wenjun W Wallweber Heidi A HA Wong Harvey H
ACS medicinal chemistry letters 20141204 3
A minor structural change to tertiary sulfonamide RORc ligands led to distinct mechanisms of action. Co-crystal structures of two compounds revealed mechanistically consistent protein conformational changes. Optimized phenylsulfonamides were identified as RORc agonists while benzylsulfonamides exhibited potent inverse agonist activity. Compounds behaving as agonists in our biochemical assay also gave rise to an increased production of IL-17 in human PBMCs whereas inverse agonists led to signific ...[more]