T. Fujita et al., 2-SUBSTITUTED 2-AMINOETHANOL - MINIMUM ESSENTIAL STRUCTURE FOR IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE ACTIVITY OF ISP-I (MYRIOCIN), Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters, 5(16), 1995, pp. 1857-1860
2-Substituted 2-aminoethanol was shown to be the minimum essential str
ucture for the immunosuppressive activity of ISP-I (myriocin, thermozy
mocidin) by simplification of 2-substituted 2-amino-1,3-propanediol, w
hich was generated by modification of ISP-I. Among the series, 2-amino
-4-(4-octylphenyl)butanol hydrochloride displayed comparably potent ac
tivity to 2-amino-2-[2-(4-octylphenyl)ethyl]-1,3-propanediol hydrochlo
ride, FTY720.