Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1374532 | Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters | 2010 | 4 Pages |
In an investigation of (−)-Cercosporamide derivatives with a plasma glucose-lowering effect, we found that N-benzylcarboxamide derivative 4 was a partial agonist of PPARγ. A SAR study of the substituents on carboxamide nitrogen afforded the N-(1-naphthyl)methylcarboxamide derivative 23 as the most potent selective PPARγ modulator. An X-ray crystallography study revealed that compound 23 bounded to the PPARγ ligand binding domain in a unique way without any interaction with helix12. Compound 23 displayed a potent plasma glucose-lowering effect in db/db mice without the undesirable increase in body fluid and heart weight that is typically observed when PPARγ full agonists are administrated.
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