AMINO SUGAR COMPOUND AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME

• Main Authors: SASAMURA SATOSHI, MATSUURA MITSUTAKA, NISHIWAKI MASAYA, SASAMURA YUMI, TAWARA ATSUO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 28.04.2011
• Subjects: BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; CULTURE MEDIA; DERIVATIVES THEREOF; 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 MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; POLYSACCHARIDES; PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, OR TOILET PURPOSES; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS ORMEDICINAL PREPARATIONS; SPIRITS; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP; VINEGAR; WINE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a compound useful as an effective component of a pharmaceutical composition having an α-amylase inhibiting function, particularly a pharmaceutical composition for treating diabetes. SOLUTION: It is confirmed that an amino sugar compound has an α-amylase inhibiting function, on the basis of the study of a compound having α-amylase inhibiting activity from compounds produced by Streptomyces sp. 6982 strain which is an actinomycete of genus Streptomyces. The obtained amino sugar compound has an α-amylase inhibiting function and can be used for preventive and/or therapeutic agent for diabetes, obesity and NASH (non-alcoholic steatohepatitis), particularly, an improving agent for postprandial hyperglycemia. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT