Discovery of an oxybenzylglycine based peroxisome proliferator activated receptor alpha selective agonist 2-((3-((2-(4-chlorophenyl)-5-methyloxazol-4-yl)methoxy)benzyl)(methoxycarbonyl)amino)acetic acid (BMS-687453).
Li, J., Kennedy, L.J., Shi, Y., Tao, S., Ye, X.Y., Chen, S.Y., Wang, Y., Hernandez, A.S., Wang, W., Devasthale, P.V., Chen, S., Lai, Z., Zhang, H., Wu, S., Smirk, R.A., Bolton, S.A., Ryono, D.E., Zhang, H., Lim, N.K., Chen, B.C., Locke, K.T., O'Malley, K.M., Zhang, L., Srivastava, R.A., Miao, B., Meyers, D.S., Monshizadegan, H., Search, D., Grimm, D., Zhang, R., Harrity, T., Kunselman, L.K., Cap, M., Kadiyala, P., Hosagrahara, V., Zhang, L., Xu, C., Li, Y.X., Muckelbauer, J.K., Chang, C., An, Y., Krystek, S.R., Blanar, M.A., Zahler, R., Mukherjee, R., Cheng, P.T., Tino, J.A.(2010) J Med Chem 53: 2854-2864
- PubMed: 20218621 
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/jm9016812
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
3KDT, 3KDU - PubMed Abstract: 
An 1,3-oxybenzylglycine based compound 2 (BMS-687453) was discovered to be a potent and selective peroxisome proliferator activated receptor (PPAR) alpha agonist, with an EC(50) of 10 nM for human PPARalpha and approximately 410-fold selectivity vs human PPARgamma in PPAR-GAL4 transactivation assays ...