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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2003
Filed:
May. 04, 2001
Hiroaki Mori, Suita, JP;
Kazutoshi Sakamoto, Tsuchiura, JP;
Yasuhisa Tsurumi, Tsukuba, JP;
Shigehiro Takase, Ishioka, JP;
Motohiro Hino, Tsuchiura, JP;
Fujisawa Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A cyclic tetrapeptide compound and use thereof. Especially, a compound WF27082, a process for production of the compound by culturing, in a nutrient medium, a WF27082-producing strain belonging to Acremonium and recovering the compound from a culture broth, a pharmaceutical composition containing the compound as an active ingredient, in association with a pharmaceutically acceptable, substantially non-toxic carrier or excipient, the compound for use as a medicament, a use of the compound for manufacture of a medicament for inhibiting histone deacetylase, a use of the compound for manufacture of a medicament for treating or preventing inflammatory disorders, diabetes, diabetic complications, homozygous thalassemia, fibrosis, cirrhosis, acute promyelocytic leukaemia (APL), protozoal infections, organ transplant rejections, autoimmune diseases, or tumors, a use of histone deacetylase inhibitors as an immunosuppressant or an antitumor agent, and a use of histone deacetylase inhibitors for manufacture of a medicament for treating or preventing organ transplant rejections, autoimmune diseases or tumors are described.