PMID- 19116277 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20090213 LR - 20211020 IS - 1091-6490 (Electronic) IS - 0027-8424 (Print) IS - 0027-8424 (Linking) VI - 106 IP - 1 DP - 2009 Jan 6 TI - Scaffold-based discovery of indeglitazar, a PPAR pan-active anti-diabetic agent. PG - 262-7 LID - 10.1073/pnas.0811325106 [doi] AB - 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). FAU - Artis, Dean R AU - Artis DR AD - Plexxikon Inc., 91 Bolivar Drive, Berkeley, CA 94710, USA. drartis@plexxikon.com FAU - Lin, Jack J AU - Lin JJ FAU - Zhang, Chao AU - Zhang C FAU - Wang, Weiru AU - Wang W FAU - Mehra, Upasana AU - Mehra U FAU - Perreault, Mylene AU - Perreault M FAU - Erbe, David AU - Erbe D FAU - Krupka, Heike I AU - Krupka HI FAU - England, Bruce P AU - England BP FAU - Arnold, James AU - Arnold J FAU - Plotnikov, Alexander N AU - Plotnikov AN FAU - Marimuthu, Adhirai AU - Marimuthu A FAU - Nguyen, Hoa AU - Nguyen H FAU - Will, Sarah AU - Will S FAU - Signaevsky, Maxime AU - Signaevsky M FAU - Kral, John AU - Kral J FAU - Cantwell, John AU - Cantwell J FAU - Settachatgull, Calvin AU - Settachatgull C FAU - Yan, Douglas S AU - Yan DS FAU - Fong, Daniel AU - Fong D FAU - Oh, Angela AU - Oh A FAU - Shi, Shenghua AU - Shi S FAU - Womack, Patrick AU - Womack P FAU - Powell, Benjamin AU - Powell B FAU - Habets, Gaston AU - Habets G FAU - West, Brian L AU - West BL FAU - Zhang, Kam Y J AU - Zhang KY FAU - Milburn, Michael V AU - Milburn MV FAU - Vlasuk, George P AU - Vlasuk GP FAU - Hirth, K Peter AU - Hirth KP FAU - Nolop, Keith AU - Nolop K FAU - Bollag, Gideon AU - Bollag G FAU - Ibrahim, Prabha N AU - Ibrahim PN FAU - Tobin, James F AU - Tobin JF LA - eng SI - PDB/3ET0 SI - PDB/3ET1 SI - PDB/3ET2 SI - PDB/3ET3 PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. DEP - 20081230 PL - United States TA - Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A JT - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America JID - 7505876 RN - 0 (Adiponectin) RN - 0 (Hypoglycemic Agents) RN - 0 (PPAR gamma) RN - 0 (Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors) SB - IM MH - Adipocytes/cytology MH - Adiponectin/genetics MH - Animals MH - Cell Differentiation/drug effects MH - Cell Line MH - Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental/drug therapy MH - Drug Discovery/*methods MH - Humans MH - Hypoglycemic Agents/pharmacology/*therapeutic use MH - Mice MH - Obesity/drug therapy MH - PPAR gamma/*agonists/genetics MH - Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors/*agonists/genetics MH - Rats MH - Transcriptional Activation/drug effects PMC - PMC2629228 COIS- Conflict of interest statement: The Sponsor is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Plexxikon, Inc. The authors are either employees of Plexxikon, Inc. or Wyeth Research with the exception of M.S. and J.K. EDAT- 2009/01/01 09:00 MHDA- 2009/02/14 09:00 PMCR- 2009/07/06 CRDT- 2009/01/01 09:00 PHST- 2009/01/01 09:00 [entrez] PHST- 2009/01/01 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2009/02/14 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2009/07/06 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 0811325106 [pii] AID - 6275 [pii] AID - 10.1073/pnas.0811325106 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 Jan 6;106(1):262-7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0811325106. Epub 2008 Dec 30.