Identification of small molecule agonists of the motilin receptor

Heightman, Tom D.; Conway, Elizabeth A.; Corbett, David F.; Macdonald, Gregor; Stemp, Geoffrey; Westaway, Susan M.; Celestini, Paolo; Gagliardi, Stefania; Riccaboni, Mauro; Ronzoni, Silvano; Vaidya, Kalindi; Butler, Sharon; McKay, Fiona C.; Muir, Alison I.; Powney, Ben; Winborn, Kim; Wise, Alan; Jarvie, Emma M.; Sanger, Gareth J.

doi:10.1016/j.bmcl.2008.10.071

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“…The data are mapped to >9000 targets, of which 2827 are human protein targets. Data sets added over the past 2 years include the following: neglected disease screening results from projects funded by Medicines for Malaria Venture (11), Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (http://www.dndi.org), World Health Organization TDR programme (WHO-TDR) (12), Open Source Malaria (http://opensourcemalaria.org), Harvard University (13) and GlaxoSmithKline (14); kinase screening results from Millipore (15), and several groups using the Protein Kinase Inhibitor Set compound collection (16); supplementary bioactivity data associated with publications from GlaxoSmithKline (17–19); and information from several other databases including DrugMatrix (https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/drugmatrix/index.html), TP-search (20) and Open TG-GATEs (21). …”

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The ChEMBL bioactivity database: an update

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ChEMBL is an open large-scale bioactivity database (https://www.ebi.ac.uk/chembl), previously described in the 2012 Nucleic Acids Research Database Issue. Since then, a variety of new data sources and improvements in functionality have contributed to the growth and utility of the resource. In particular, more comprehensive tracking of compounds from research stages through clinical development to market is provided through the inclusion of data from United States Adopted Name applications; a new richer data model for representing drug targets has been developed; and a number of methods have been put in place to allow users to more easily identify reliable data. Finally, access to ChEMBL is now available via a new Resource Description Framework format, in addition to the web-based interface, data downloads and web services.

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The ChEMBL bioactivity database: an update

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“…1). More recently, the benzylpiperazine structure has been discovered as a useful template for the preparation of motilin agonists 22,23 . In this study, we describe the pharmacology of one of these compounds, namely GSK962040 (Fig.…”

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GSK962040: a small molecule, selective motilin receptor agonist, effective as a stimulant of human and rabbit gastrointestinal motility

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Neurogastroenterology Motil

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There is an urgent clinical need for a safe, efficacious stimulant of gastric emptying; current therapies include erythromycin (an antibiotic with additional properties which preclude chronic use) and metoclopramide (a 5-hydroxytryptamine type 4 receptor agonist and an antagonist at brain D2 receptors, associated with movement disorders). To move away from the complex motilide structure of erythromycin, a small molecule motilin receptor agonist, GSK962040, was identified and characterized. The compound was evaluated using recombinant human receptors, rabbit and human isolated stomach preparations known to respond to motilin and in vivo, by measuring its ability to increase defecation in conscious rabbits. At the human motilin receptor, the pEC50 (the negative logarithm to base 10 of the EC50 value, the concentration of agonist that produces 50% of the maximal response) values for GSK962040 and erythromycin as agonists were, respectively, 7.9 and 7.3; GSK962040 had no significant activity at a range of other receptors (including ghrelin), ion channels and enzymes. In rabbit gastric antrum, GSK962040 300 nmol L(-1)-10 micromol L(-1) caused a prolonged facilitation of the amplitude of cholinergically mediated contractions, to a maximum of 248 +/- 47% at 3 micromol L(-1). In human-isolated stomach, GSK962040 10 micromol L(-1), erythromycin 10 micromol L(-1) and [Nle13]-motilin 100 nmol L(-1), each caused muscle contraction of similar amplitude. In conscious rabbits, intravenous doses of 5 mg kg(-1) GSK962040 or 10 mg kg(-1) erythromycin significantly increased faecal output over a 2-h period. Together, these data show that GSK962040, a non-motilide structure, selectively activates the motilin receptor. Simplification of the structural requirements to activate this receptor greatly facilitates the design of potentially new medicines for gastroparesis.

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“…Camicinal is a motilin receptor agonist of a novel chemical class. It has a short half‐life and did not show any signs of desensitization of its gastric motility stimulating efficacy after 14 days of treatment in healthy controls . In the present study, both 50 and 150 mg of camicinal were well‐tolerated and the highest dose induced significant stimulation of interdigestive upper gastrointestinal contractility patterns.…”

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“…Hence, there is a clear need for new drugs for the treatment of gastroparesis and functional dyspepsia with delayed gastric emptying. Recently, a new class of motilin receptor agonists, derived from a benzylpiperazine molecular structure, was identified . It has already been shown that camicinal (GSK962040), one of these agents, selectively activates the recombinant human motilin receptor, induces contractions in human and rabbit isolated stomach preparations and increases the fecal output in conscious rabbits .…”

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