Texas Biotechnology Corporation

Structural Bioinformatics Inc.

Kalyanaraman Ramnarayan

Venkatachalapathi Yalamoori

Ming Fai Chan

Chengde Wu

Adam Kois

Erik Joel Verner

Vitukudi Narayanaiyengar Balaji

Bore G Raju

Rosario Silvestre Castillo

Darryl Rideout

Jason J Sun

Mark Shenderovich

Jian Hua Zheng

Christina Niemeyer

N-(5-isoxazolyl)benzenesulfonamides and N-(3-isoxazolyl)benzenesulfonamides and methods for modulating or altering the activity of the endothelin family of peptides are provided. In particular, N-(5-isoxazolyl)biphenylsulfonamides and N-(3-isoxazolyl)biphenylsulfonamides and methods for inhibiting the binding of an endothelin peptide to an endothelin receptor or increasing the activity of endothelin peptides by contacting the receptor with a sulfonamide are provided. N-isoxzolyl-4-biphenylsulfonamides are particularly preferred. These compounds exhibit activity as endothelin receptor B antagonists. Methods for treating endothelin-mediated disorders, particularly inflammatory diseases, such as asthma, by administering effective amounts of one or more of these sulfonamides or prodrugs thereof that inhibit or increase the activity of endothelin are also provided.

Benzenesulfonamides and the use thereof to modulate the activity of endothelin

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Sulfonamides and methods using these sulfonamides for inhibiting the binding of an endothelin peptide to an endothelin receptor by contacting the receptor with the sulfonamide are provided. Methods for treating endothelin-mediated disorders by administering effective amounts of one or more of these sulfonamides or prodrugs thereof that inhibit or increase the activity of endothelin are also provided. The sulfonamides have formula I: ##STR1## in which Ar.sup.1 is a 3- or 5-isoxazolyl and Ar.sup.2 is selected from among alkyl, including straight and branched chains, aromatic rings, fused aromatic rings and heterocyclic rings, including 5-membered heterocycles with one, two or more heteroatoms and fused ring analogs thereof and 6-membered rings with one, two or more heteroatoms and fused ring analogs thereof. Ar.sup.2 is preferably thiophenyl, furyl, pyrrolyl, naphthyl, and phenyl. Compounds in which Ar.sup.1 is a 4-halo-substituted isoxazole are more active than the corresponding alkyl-substituted compound and compounds in which Ar.sup.1 is substituted at this position with a higher alkyl tend to exhibit greater affinity for ET.sub.B receptors than the corresponding lower alkyl-substituted compound.

Sulfonamides and derivatives thereof that modulate the activity of

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