摘要:
The invention provides new inhibitors of protein glycation, identified from compound libraries by a high throughput screening assay. The anti-glycation agents so identified are characterized by a variety of chemical structures and are useful for the prevention or treatment of age-, diabetes-, and smoking-related complications, including neuropathy, nephropathy, ocular pathologies, or the loss of mechanical properties of collagenous tissues. Among compounds identified as having the anti-glycation activity, of special interest are epinephrine and its analogs, in particular D-epinephrine and its analogs, which are particularly useful for the prevention or treatment of age-, diabetes-, and smoking-related ocular pathologies.
摘要:
The present invention provides a scalable process for producing a concentrate containing a mass of a farnesylated dibenzodiazepinone by fermenting in an aqueous culture medium a strain of a microorganism that is capable of producing the farnesylated dibenzodiazepinone, upon completion of fermentation harvesting the fermentation broth and extracting the fermentation broth to provide an extract, and thereafter treating the extract to form the concentrate. The concentrate so produced may be utilized in downstream processes for producing pharmaceutical compounds. A strain of a Micromonospora species capable of producing a farnesylated dibenzodiazepinone at a high yield rate is provided, together with culture media for culturing microorganisms, and fermentation conditions for production of the farnesylated dibenzodiazepinone of the concentrate.