Modulators of Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator
AssigneeVertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated
InventorsXiaoqing Yang, Sara Sabina Hadida Ruah, Peter Diederik Jan Grootenhuis, Fredrick F. Van Goor, Martyn Curtis Botfield, Gregor Zlokarnik
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Abstract
This invention relates to a compound of Formula I: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein R is COOH or CH2OH.
Claims10
1-9. (canceled)
A method of modulating CFTR activity in a biological sample comprising the step of contacting said biological sample with a compound of Formula I:
- or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein R is COOH or CH2OH.
The method of claim 1, wherein the compound has the structure:
- or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
The method of claim 1, wherein the compound has the
- or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
A method of treating or lessening the severity of a disease in a patient, wherein said disease is selected from cystic fibrosis, asthma, smoke induced COPD, chronic bronchitis, rhinosinusitis, constipation, pancreatitis, pancreatic insufficiency, male infertility caused by congenital bilateral absence of the vas deferens (CBAVD), mild pulmonary disease, idiopathic pancreatitis, allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA), liver disease, hereditary emphysema, hereditary hemochromatosis, coagulation-fibrinolysis deficiencies, such as protein C deficiency, Type 1 hereditary angioedema, lipid processing deficiencies, such as familial hypercholesterolemia, Type 1 chylomicronemia, abetalipoproteinemia, lysosomal storage diseases, such as I-cell disease/pseudo-Hurler, mucopolysaccharidoses, Sandhof/Tay-Sachs, Crigler-Najjar type II, polyendocrinopathy/hyperinsulemia, Diabetes mellitus, Laron dwarfism, myleoperoxidase deficiency, primary hypoparathyroidism, melanoma, glycanosis CDG type 1, congenital hyperthyroidism, osteogenesis imperfecta, hereditary hypofibrinogenemia, ACT deficiency, Diabetes insipidus (DI), neurophyseal DI, neprogenic DI, Charcot-Marie Tooth syndrome, Perlizaeus-Merzbacher disease, neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, progressive supranuclear plasy, Pick's disease, several polyglutamine neurological disorders such as Huntington, spinocerebullar ataxia type I, spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy, dentatorubal pallidoluysian, and myotonic dystrophy, as well as spongiform encephalopathies, such as hereditary Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (due to prion protein processing defect), Fabry disease, Straussler-Scheinker syndrome, COPD, dry-eye disease, or Sjogren's disease, said method comprising administering to said patient an effective amount of a compound of Formula I:
- or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
17-21. (canceled)
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.