1. Amidines as amide bond replacements in VLA-4 antagonists
- Author
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Adria Colletti, Malcolm MacCoss, Theodore M. Kamenecka, Ermengilda McCauley, Linda A. Egger, Wei Tang, Sharon Tong, Usha Kidambi, Richard A. Mumford, Ralph A. Stearns, John A. Schmidt, You-Jung Park, Gail Van Riper, Linus S. Lin, Stephen E. de Laszlo, Yohannes Teffera, and William K. Hagmann
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Clinical Biochemistry ,Cell ,Integrin ,Amidines ,Pharmaceutical Science ,Inflammation ,Integrin alpha4beta1 ,Biochemistry ,immune system diseases ,Drug Discovery ,medicine ,Cell adhesion ,Molecular Biology ,biology ,Cell adhesion molecule ,Chemistry ,Organic Chemistry ,VLA-4 ,Amides ,Small molecule ,Extravasation ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Area Under Curve ,Immunology ,Cancer research ,biology.protein ,Molecular Medicine ,medicine.symptom - Abstract
VLA-4 (alpha(4)beta(1), very late activating antigen-4), a key cell surface integrin plays an important role in inflammation by promoting leukocyte attachment and extravasation from the vasculature into the peripheral tissues. As such, VLA-4 antagonists may be useful in the treatment, prevention, and suppression of diseases where cell adhesion and migration are important such as asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, and multiple sclerosis. Herein, we report on the discovery, synthesis, and biological evaluation of amidines as small molecule antagonists of VLA-4.
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- 2004