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. 2021 Jan 17;22(2):883. doi: 10.3390/ijms22020883

Table 4.

Filed patents for CPU inhibitors with their corresponding lead compounds and highest development status reported.

Company Patents Chemical Structure Lead Compound Highest Development Status Reported Reference
AstraZeneca WO/2000/66550
WO/2000/066557
WO/2000/066152
WO/2003/106420
WO/2003/027128
Phosphor and/or thiol-containing compounds AZD9684 Phase II completed;
development halted
[36,147,148]
WO/2005/039617 Cyclic anabaenopeptin-type peptides Unknown Discovery
Unknown Conformationally restricted imidazole derivatives Compounds 7 and 12 Preclinical [149]
Meiji Seika Kaisha/ MediciNova * WO/2001/19836 Phosphonic and phosphinic acid derivatives EF6265/MN-462 * Preclinical [150,151]
Pfizer WO/2002/14285
WO/2003/061652
WO/2003/061653
Imidazole propanoic acid derivatives UK-396082 Phase I completed,
development halted
[152,153]
Merck WO/2003/013526 Imidazole acetic acid derivatives Compound 10j/
Compound (-)-8
Preclinical [154,155]
Berlex Biosciences (Bayer) WO/2003/080631
WO/2006/041808
Aryl guanidinic and mercaptopropionic acid derivatives BX 528 Preclinical [156,157,158]
Sanofi WO/2005/105781
WO/2007/045339
WO/2010/130718
WO/2013/076178
WO/2013/076179
WO/2008/067909
Imidazole, urea & sulfamide containing compounds SAR104772
SAR126119
Phase I completed
Phase II initiated in 2013
[159]
Sanofi WO/2009/146802
WO/2014/198620
Macrocyclic urea derivatives Unknown Preclinical [160,161,162]
Unknown FFC.HTZ4.059 Preclinical [163]
Servier WO/2010/149888 2-mercapto-cyclopentane
carboxylic acid compounds
Unknown Discovery
WO/2017/121969 Phosphinane & azaphosphinane
derivatives
S62798 Phase I completed [95,164]
Taisho Pharmaceutical WO/2011/034215 Dihydroimidazo-quinoline compounds Unknown Discovery
Daiichi Sankyo WO/2011/115064
WO/2011/115065
WO/2013/039202
Cycloalkyl-substituted imidazole,
cyclopropanecarboxylic acid, and acrylic acid
derivatives
DS-1040 Phase Ib/II completed; development halted [52,53,165,166]
WO/2016/204239
WO/2016/104678
Combinations of a CPU inhibitor with other compounds DS-1040 + rtPA
DS-1040 + Edoxaban
WO/2017/170460 CPU inhibitor application in inflammatory bowel disease

* EF6265 was obtained by MediciNova from MSK in 2006 and renamed MN-462.