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  2. Spirocyclic ureas: orally bioavailable 11 beta-HSD1 inhibitors identified by computer-aided drug design

Spirocyclic ureas: orally bioavailable 11 beta-HSD1 inhibitors identified by computer-aided drug design

  • Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2010 Feb 1;20(3):881-6. doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2009.12.082.
Colin M Tice 1 Wei Zhao Zhenrong Xu Salvacion T Cacatian Robert D Simpson Yuan-Jie Ye Suresh B Singh Brian M McKeever Peter Lindblom Joan Guo Paula M Krosky Barbara A Kruk Jennifer Berbaum Richard K Harrison Judith J Johnson Yuri Bukhtiyarov Reshma Panemangalore Boyd B Scott Yi Zhao Joseph G Bruno Linghang Zhuang Gerard M McGeehan Wei He David A Claremon
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  • 1 Vitae Pharmaceuticals, 502 West Office Center Drive, Fort Washington, PA 19034, USA.
Abstract

Structure-guided drug design led to the identification of a class of spirocyclic ureas which potently inhibit human 11beta-HSD1 in vitro. Lead compound 10j was shown to be orally bioavailable in three species, distributed into adipose tissue in the mouse, and its (R) isomer 10j2 was efficacious in a primate pharmacodynamic model.

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