CYCLIC TETRAPEPTIDE COMPOUND AND USE THEREOF

• Main Authors: TSURUMI YASUHISA, TAKASE SHIGEHIRO, HINO MOTOHIRO, SAKAMOTO KAZUTOSHI, MORI HIROAKI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Hungarian
• Published: 28.02.2002
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; CULTURE MEDIA; ENZYMOLOGY; FERMENTATION OR ENZYME-USING PROCESSES TO SYNTHESISE A DESIREDCHEMICAL COMPOUND OR COMPOSITION OR TO SEPARATE OPTICAL ISOMERSFROM A RACEMIC MIXTURE; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; METALLURGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; PEPTIDES; PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, OR TOILET PURPOSES; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS ORMEDICINAL PREPARATIONS; SPIRITS; VINEGAR; WINE

A cyclic tetrapeptide compound and use thereof. Especially, a compound WF27082, a process for production of the compound by culturing, in a nutrient medium, a WF27082-producing strain belonging to Acremonium and recovering the compound from a culture broth, a pharmaceutical composition containing the compound as an active ingredient, in association with a pharmaceutically acceptable, substantially non-toxic carrier or excipient, the compound for use as a medicament, a use of the compound for manufacture of a medicament for inhibiting histone deacetylase, a use of the compound for manufacture of a medicament for treating or preventing inflammatory disorders, diabetes, diabetic complications, homozygous thalassemia, fibrosis, cirrhosis, acute promyelocytic leukaemia (APL), protozoal infections, organ transplant rejections, autoimmune diseases, or tumors, a use of histone deacetylase inhibitors as an immunosuppressant or an antitumor agent, and a use of histone deacetylase inhibitors for manufacture of a medicament for treating or preventing organ transplant rejections, autoimmune diseases or tumors are described.