Design of a partial PPARδ agonist

Structure based ligand design was used in order to design a partial agonist for the PPARδ receptor. The maximum activation in the transactivation assay was reduced from 87% to 39%. The crystal structure of the ligand binding domain of the PPARδ receptor in complex with compound 2 was determined in order to understand the structural changes which gave rise to the decrease in maximum activation.

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