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SUBMITTER: Scheepstra M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5435924 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20170413 20
Spiroketals are structural motifs found in many biologically active natural products, which has stimulated considerable efforts toward their synthesis and interest in their use as drug lead compounds. Despite this, the use of spiroketals, and especially bisbenzanulated spiroketals, in a structure-based drug discovery setting has not been convincingly demonstrated. Herein, we report the rational design of a bisbenzannulated spiroketal that potently binds to the retinoid X receptor (RXR) thereby i ...[more]