Novel Anti-Inflammatory Agents from Pseudopterogorgia

Description

New potent anti-inflammatory agents have been identified from the marine coral Pseudopterogorgia elisabethae collected in the Florida Keys. The compounds include novel pseudopterosins, seco-pseudopterosins and elisabethadione.

Advantages

• Compounds exhibit potent anti-inflammatory, anti-proliferative and analgesic activity when administered to a subject.
• Seco-pseudopterosins and elisabethadione are structurally simpler than the pseudopterosins and thus are easier to synthesize.
• Some of the new compounds are more potent than the currently used pseudopterosins A and E.
• Compounds are of non-animal origin.

Potential Applications

• May be used to treat, prevent, or inhibit rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, rheumatic carditis, collagen and auto-immune diseases such as myasthenia gravis, allergic diseases, bronchial asthma and ocular, skin inflammatory diseases such as poison ivy, and proliferative diseases such as psoriasis.
• Useful as adjuvant therapy associated with organ and tissue transplants and any neurological disease involving the metabolism of nervous tissue phospholipid such as multiple sclerosis.
• Can be useful in the treatment of insect bites, bee or wasp stings or any venom in which a major constituent is the enzyme phospholipse A₂

Pseudopterogorgia elisabethae

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Updated August 10, 2008

Inventors
Dr. Russell G. Kerr
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry

IP Status
U.S. Patent 6,787,571
Issued 9/7/04

U.S. Div Patent App
Filed 8/2/2004

AU Pat App 2002241521
Filed 5/28/2003

EU  Pat App  01988191.1

Contact Information
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Case Number
2000-18