A mucosal formulation for administration to mucosal membranes, such as in the mouth, nasal passage, stomach, vagina, etc., is disclosed. The mucosal formulation contains a lipid-pharmaceutical agent complex formed from phospholipids possessing a hydrophobic moiety that orients into a hydrophobic phase and a polar head moiety that orients towards the aqueous phase (i.e., “amphipathic” lipids). When placed in an aqueous medium (e.g., vaginal fluid), the phospholipids form liposomes or other small lipid vesicles (e.g., micelles) that may then be used to deliver pharmaceutical agents into a living organism.
Phospholipids, inclusive of pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, of the formula
wherein R' is a C8.30 aliphatic hydrocarbon residue, R2, R3 and R4 are independently hydrogen or lower alky or
represents cyclic ammonio and n is 0 or 1, exhibit inhibitory activity to multiplication of tumor cells and antimycotic (antifungal) and antiprotozoal activities, and are useful for inhibiting multiplication of tumor cells and prolonging the survival time of tumor-bearing warm-blooded animals, for treating or preventing a disease in an animal caused by a mycete (fungus) and for treating or preventing a plant disease.
Autotaxin structure–activity relationships revealed through lysophosphatidylcholine analogs
作者:E. Jeffrey North、Daniel A. Osborne、Peter K. Bridson、Daniel L. Baker、Abby L. Parrill
DOI:10.1016/j.bmc.2009.03.030
日期:2009.5
Autotaxin (ATX) catalyzes the hydrolysis of lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC) to form the bioactive lipid lysophosphatidic acid (LPA). LPA stimulates cell proliferation, cell survival, and cell migration and is involved in obesity, rheumatoid arthritis, neuropathic pain, atherosclerosis and various cancers, suggesting that ATX inhibitors have broad therapeutic potential. Product feedback inhibition of ATX by LPA has stimulated structure-activity studies focused on LPA analogs. However, LPA displays mixed mode inhibition, indicating that it can bind to both the enzyme and the enzyme-substrate complex. This suggests that LPA may not interact solely with the catalytic site. In this report we have prepared LPC analogs to help map out substrate structure-activity relationships. The structural variances include length and unsaturation of the fatty tail, choline and polar linker presence, acyl versus ether linkage of the hydrocarbon chain, and methylene and nitrogen replacement of the choline oxygen. All LPC analogs were assayed in competition with the synthetic substrate, FS-3, to show the preference ATX has for each alteration. Choline presence and methylene replacement of the choline oxygen were detrimental to ATX recognition. These findings provide insights into the structure of the enzyme in the vicinity of the catalytic site as well as suggesting that ATX produces rate enhancement, at least in part, by substrate destabilization. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.