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SUBMITTER: Marino S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7236273 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Marino Simona De S Finamore Claudia C Biagioli Michele M Carino Adriana A Marchianò Silvia S Roselli Rosalinda R Giorgio Cristina Di CD Bordoni Martina M Di Leva Francesco Saverio FS Novellino Ettore E Cassiano Chiara C Limongelli Vittorio V Zampella Angela A Festa Carmen C Fiorucci Stefano S
ACS medicinal chemistry letters 20200302 5
GPBAR1 agonists have been identified as potential leads for the treatment of diseases related to colon inflammation such as Crohn's and ulcerative colitis. In this paper, we report the discovery of a small library of hyodeoxycholane analogues, decorated at C-6 with different substituents, as potent and selective GPBAR1 agonists. <i>In vitro</i> pharmacological assays showed that compound <b>6</b> selectively activates GPBAR1 (EC<sub>50</sub> = 0.3 μM) and reduces the production of pro-inflammato ...[more]