X-RAY STRUCTURE OF HUMAN FPPS AND USE FOR SELECTING FPPS BINDING COMPOUNDS
    5.
    发明公开
    X-RAY STRUCTURE OF HUMAN FPPS AND USE FOR SELECTING FPPS BINDING COMPOUNDS 审中-公开
    人FPPS X射线结构和它们的用途在选择FPPS结合化合物

    公开(公告)号:EP1836296A1

    公开(公告)日:2007-09-26

    申请号:EP06703258.1

    申请日:2006-01-02

    CPC分类号: C12N9/1085 C07K2299/00

    摘要: The present invention relates to crystalline human farnesyl diphosphate synthase (FPPS), to the three-dimensional structure of free FPPS, as well as the three-dimensional structures of FPPS in complex with substrates such as IPP (isopentenyl diphosphate) and/or with inhibitors, such as Zometa® or Aredia®. Further, methods for preparing crystals of human FPPS are described. According to the invention the crystals can be used to determine the structures of FPPS homologs, mutants, complexes with ligands, FPPS crystal forms and similar molecules of unknown structure. The invention further relates to the use of FPPS crystals to select new FPPS ligands, e.g., by X-ray screening and to design and/or identify inhibitors against FPPS. Furthermore, the invention relates to NMR methods for selecting and/or identifying new low molecular weight binders to FPPS, which represent new therapeutic agents.

    C2-C5-ALKYL-IMIDAZOLE-BISPHOSPHONATES
    8.
    发明授权
    C2-C5-ALKYL-IMIDAZOLE-BISPHOSPHONATES 有权
    C2-C5-ALKYLIMIDAZOLBISPHOSPHONATE

    公开(公告)号:EP2225252B1

    公开(公告)日:2012-06-27

    申请号:EP08854485.3

    申请日:2008-11-26

    申请人: Novartis AG

    CPC分类号: C07F9/65061

    摘要: C2-C5-Alkyl-substituted [(imidazol-1 -yl)-1-hydroxy-1-phosphono-ethyl]-phosphonic acids, as well as methods or processes for their manufacture, their use in the manufacture of pharmaceutical formulations, their use in the treatment of diseases, methods of using them in the treatment of diseases, pharmaceutical formulations encompassing them and/or the compounds for use in the treatment of diseases, are described. The compounds are able to inhibit excessive or inappropriate bone resorption and for the treatment of other diseases which are caused by excessive prenylation of target proteins, such as Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome. The compounds are of the formula (I), wherein one of R1 and R2 is hydrogen and the other is C2-C5-alkyl that is branched or unbranched, and can be in free form, in the form of an ester, and/or of a salt.