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SUBMITTER: Marcoux D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6071880 | biostudies-other | 2017 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Marcoux David D Xiao Hai-Yun HY Murali Dhar T G TG Xie Jenny J Lehman-McKeeman Lois D LD Wu Dauh-Rurng DR Dabros Marta M Yang Xiaoxia X Taylor Tracy L TL Zhou Xia D XD Heimrich Elizabeth M EM Thomas Rochelle R McIntyre Kim W KW Shi Hong H Levesque Paul C PC Sun Huadong H Yang Zheng Z Marino Anthony M AM Cornelius Georgia G D'Arienzo Celia J CJ Gupta Anuradha A Pragalathan Bala B Rampulla Richard R Mathur Arvind A Shen Ding Ren DR Cvijic Mary Ellen ME Salter-Cid Luisa L Lombardo Louis J LJ Carter Percy H PH Dyckman Alaric J AJ
MedChemComm 20161125 4
Recently, our research group reported the identification of prodrug amino-alcohol <b>2</b> as a potent and efficacious S1P<sub>1</sub> receptor modulator. This molecule is differentiated preclinically over the marketed drug fingolimod (Gilenya <b>1</b>), whose active phosphate metabolite is an S1P<sub>1</sub> full agonist, in terms of pulmonary and cardiovascular safety. S1P<sub>1</sub> partial agonist <b>2</b>, however, has a long half-life in rodents and was projected to have a long half-life ...[more]