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Details

Stereochemistry ABSOLUTE
Molecular Formula C20H33N5O9
Molecular Weight 487.5041
Optical Activity UNSPECIFIED
Defined Stereocenters 4 / 4
E/Z Centers 0
Charge 0

SHOW SMILES / InChI
Structure of GORALATIDE

SMILES

CC(=O)N[C@@H](CO)C(=O)N[C@@H](CC(O)=O)C(=O)N[C@@H](CCCCN)C(=O)N1CCC[C@H]1C(O)=O

InChI

InChIKey=HJDRXEQUFWLOGJ-AJNGGQMLSA-N
InChI=1S/C20H33N5O9/c1-11(27)22-14(10-26)18(31)24-13(9-16(28)29)17(30)23-12(5-2-3-7-21)19(32)25-8-4-6-15(25)20(33)34/h12-15,26H,2-10,21H2,1H3,(H,22,27)(H,23,30)(H,24,31)(H,28,29)(H,33,34)/t12-,13-,14-,15-/m0/s1

HIDE SMILES / InChI

Description

The natural tetrapeptide acetyl-N-Ser-Asp-Lys-Pro (AcSDKP also known as Goralatide) is generated from the N-terminus of thymosin-β4 through enzymatic cleavage by prolyl oligopeptidase (POP). AcSDKP regulation of proliferation of different cells is implicated in hematopoiesis and angiogenesis. This tetrapeptide present in almost all cells was recently detected at elevated concentrations in neoplastic diseases. However, previously reported in vitro and in vivo studies indicate that AcSDKP does not contribute to the pathogenesis of cancers. AcSDKP was in the phase II clinical trial for development of a new non-radioactive test for measuring glomerular filtration rate in patient with Chronic Kidney Disease. In addition, using mice models was concluded ,that AcSDKP might be an oral antifibrotic peptide drug that would be relevant to combating fibroproliferative kidney diseases such as diabetic nephropathy.

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Approval Year

Targets

Primary TargetPharmacologyConditionPotency

Conditions

ConditionModalityTargetsHighest PhaseProduct
Diagnostic
Unknown
Primary
Unknown

Cmax

ValueDoseCo-administeredAnalytePopulation
110 nM
128 nmol/kg single, intramuscular
GORALATIDE plasma
Homo sapiens
156 nM
128 nmol/kg single, subcutaneous
GORALATIDE plasma
Homo sapiens

AUC

ValueDoseCo-administeredAnalytePopulation
117 nM × h
128 nmol/kg single, intravenous
GORALATIDE plasma
Homo sapiens

T1/2

ValueDoseCo-administeredAnalytePopulation
4.5 min
128 nmol/kg single, intravenous
GORALATIDE plasma
Homo sapiens

Overview

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Drug as perpetrator​

PubMed

Sample Use Guides

In Vivo Use Guide
Once intravenous administration of 100 µg or less
Route of Administration: Intravenous
In Vitro Use Guide
It was shown that exogenous AcSDKP (Goralatide) (10-13 to 10-5M) exerted no effect on the proliferation of actively dividing malignant cells. Using S17092, a specific POP inhibitor (POPi), to suppress the biosynthesis of AcSDKP in U87-MG glioblastoma cells characterized by high intracellular levels of this peptide, it was found, that all tested doses of POPi resulted in an equally effective depletion of AcSDKP, which was not correlated with the dose-dependent decreases in the proliferation rate of treated cells. Interestingly, addition of exogenous AcSDKP markedly reversed the reduction in the proliferation of U87-MG cells treated with the highest dose of POPi, and this effect was associated with activation of the phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase (PI3K)/Akt pathway. However, extracellular-regulated protein kinase (ERK) activation was unaltered by S17092 and AcSDKP co-treatment.