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PDE4 inhibitor 16   Click here for help

GtoPdb Ligand ID: 10400

PDB Ligand Immunopharmacology Ligand
Compound class: Synthetic organic
Comment: This compound has been reported as a selective inhibitor of phosphodiesterase 4 (PDE4) [1]. Chemically this compound is a synthetic tetrahydro-isoquinoline analogue of the naturally occurring plant alkaloid berberine (PubChem CID 2353).
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2D Structure
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Physico-chemical Properties
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Physico-chemical Properties

Calculated molecular properties are available for small molecules and natural products (not peptides). Properties were generated using the Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) (Willighagen EL et al. Journal of Cheminformatics vol. 9:33. 2017, doi:10.1186/s13321-017-0220-4; https://cdk.github.io/). All properties were selected to enable the prediction of the Lipinski Rule-of-Five profile or ‘druglikeness’ for each ligand. For more info on each category see the help pages.

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Hydrogen bond acceptors 2
Hydrogen bond donors 1
Rotatable bonds 6
Topological polar surface area 54.56
Molecular weight 378.19
XLogP 3.61
No. Lipinski's rules broken 0

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SMILES / InChI / InChIKey
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Canonical SMILES O=CN1CCc2c(C1CCc1c[nH]c3c1ccc(c3)C)cc(c(c2)OC)OC
Isomeric SMILES O=CN1CCc2c([C@@H]1CCc1c[nH]c3c1ccc(c3)C)cc(c(c2)OC)OC
InChI InChI=1S/C23H26N2O3/c1-15-4-6-18-17(13-24-20(18)10-15)5-7-21-19-12-23(28-3)22(27-2)11-16(19)8-9-25(21)14-26/h4,6,10-14,21,24H,5,7-9H2,1-3H3/t21-/m0/s1
InChI Key OIDQRHGTWLIKKZ-NRFANRHFSA-N

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Bioactivity Comments
Although compound 16 is reported to exhibit selectivity for PDE4, data in the table below shows that its in vitro selectivity over PDE10 is only ~4 fold. Compound 16 inhibits lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulated TNFα production by human peripheral blood mononuclear cells with an IC50 of 650 nM [1].
Selectivity at enzymes
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Target Sp. Type Action Value Parameter Concentration range (M) Reference
phosphodiesterase 4D Hs Inhibitor Inhibition 6.6 pIC50 - 1
⤷ pIC50 6.6 (IC50 2.4x10-7 M) [1]
Description: Inhibition of enzymatic activity of the recombinant human PDE4D catalytic domain in vitro.
phosphodiesterase 10A Hs Inhibitor Inhibition 6.0 pIC50 - 1
⤷ pIC50 6.0 (IC50 9.2x10-7 M) [1]
Description: Inhibition of enzymatic activity of the recombinant human PDE10A catalytic domain in vitro.
phosphodiesterase 6C Hs Inhibitor Inhibition 5.5 pIC50 - 1
⤷ pIC50 5.5 (IC50 3.3x10-6 M) [1]
Description: Inhibition of enzymatic activity of the recombinant human PDE6C catalytic domain in vitro.