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Cholesterol levels, squalestatins

Medicinal chemistry has frequently drawn inspiration and important new leads from the examination of natural products, and this was proven to be the case once more. In 1992, researchers at Merck and Glaxo announced, almost simultaneously, the independent discovery of the same new class of natural products from two different fungi. As a consequence, the same family of natural products has two names - the zaragozic acids (Merck)4 or the squalestatins (Glaxo).5 A typical member of the family, zaragozic acid A (squa-lestatin SI) (1) was shown to have a tremendous affinity for squalene synthase (K, = 79 pM for rat microsomal squalene synthase) and could even lower serum cholesterol levels in vivo in a population of marmosets.6... [Pg.675]

Zaragozic acid A (which is also called squalestatin SI and has been shown to lower serum cholesterol levels in test animals by inhibition of squalene biosynthesis) by K. C. Nicolaou (University of California San Diego, Scripps Research Institute) ... [Pg.442]


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