作者:Symon Gathiaka、Gayani Nanayakkara、Tracey Boncher、Orlando Acevedo、Johnathon Wyble、Sagar Patel、Akash Patel、Mary Elizabeth Shane、Blake Bonkowski、Jason Wieczorek、Yinghui Rong、Kevin Huggins、Forest Smith、Rajesh H. Amin
DOI:10.1016/j.bmcl.2012.11.060
日期:2013.2
Type 2 diabetes is at epidemic proportions and thus development of novel pharmaceutical therapies for improving insulin sensitivity has become of paramount importance. The objectives of the current study were to develop novel dual PPAR gamma/delta agonists without the deleterious side effects associated with full PPAR gamma agonists. Docking simulations of 23 novel compounds within the ligand binding domain of PPAR gamma/delta were performed using AutoDock Vina which consistently reproduced experimental binding poses from known PPAR agonists. Comparisons were made and described with other docking programs AutoDock and Surflex-Dock (from SYBYL-X). Biological evaluation of compounds was accomplished by transcriptional promoter activity assays, quantitative PCR gene analysis for known PPAR gamma/delta targets as well as in vitro assays for lipid accumulation and mitochondrial biogenesis verses known PPAR agonists. We found one (compound 9) out of the 23 compounds evaluated, to be the most potent and selective dual PPAR gamma/delta agonist which did not display the deleterious side effects associated with full PPAR gamma agonists. (c) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.