Discovery of potent, selective, and orally active carboxylic acid based inhibitors of matrix metalloproteinase-13
Monovich, L.G., Tommasi, R.A., Fujimoto, R.A., Blancuzzi, V., Clark, K., Cornell, W.D., Doti, R., Doughty, J., Fang, J., Farley, D., Fitt, J., Ganu, V., Goldberg, R., Goldstein, R., Lavoie, S., Kulathila, R., Macchia, W., Parker, D.T., Melton, R., O'Byrne, E., Pastor, G., Pellas, T., Quadros, E., Reel, N., Roland, D.M., Sakane, Y., Singh, H., Skiles, J., Somers, J., Toscano, K., Wigg, A., Zhou, S., Zhu, L., Shieh, W.C., Xue, S., McQuire, L.W.(2009) J Med Chem 52: 3523-3538
- PubMed: 19422229 
- DOI: 10.1021/jm801394m
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3ELM - PubMed Abstract: 
The matrix metalloproteinase enzyme MMP-13 plays a key role in the degradation of type II collagen in cartilage and bone in osteoarthritis (OA). An effective MMP-13 inhibitor would therefore be a novel disease modifying therapy for the treatment of a ...