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Comparative Evaluation of Gemcabene and Peroxisome Proliferator–Activated Receptor Ligands in Transcriptional Assays of Peroxisome Proliferator–Activated Receptors: Implication for the Treatment of Hyperlipidemia and Cardiovascular Disease

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Gemcabene, a late-stage clinical candidate, has shown efficacy for LDL-C, non-HDL cholesterol, apoB, triglycerides, and hsCRP reduction, all risk factors for cardiovascular disease. In rodents, gemcabene showed changes in targets, including apoC-III, apoA-I, peroxisomal enzymes, considered regulated through peroxisome proliferator–activated receptor (PPAR) gene activation, suggesting a PPAR-mediated mechanism of action for the observed hypolipidemic effects observed in rodents and humans. In the current study, the gemcabene agonist activity against PPAR subtypes of human, rat, and mouse were compared with known lipid lowering PPAR activators. Surprisingly, gemcabene showed no or little PPAR-α transactivation compared with reference agonists, which showed concentration-dependent transactivation against human PPAR-α of 2.4- to 30-fold (fenofibric acid), 17-fold (GW590735), and 2.3- to 25-fold (WY-14643). These agents also showed robust transactivation of mouse and rat PPAR-α in a concentration-dependent manner. The known PPAR-δ agonists, GW1516, L165041, and GW0742, showed potent agonist activity against human, mouse, and rat receptors (ranging from 165- to 396-fold). By contrast, gemcabene at the highest concentration tested (300 μM) showed no response in mouse and rat and a marginal response against human PPAR-δ receptors (3.2-fold). For PPAR-γ, gemcabene showed no agonist activity against all 3 species at 100 μM and marginal activity (3.6- to 5-fold) at 300 μM. By contrast, the known agonists, rosiglitazone, indomethacin, and muraglitazar showed strong activation against the mouse, rat, and human PPAR-γ receptors. No clear antagonist activity was observed with gemcabene against any PPAR subtypes for all 3 species over a wide range of concentrations. In summary, the transactivation studies rule out gemcabeneas a direct agonist or antagonist of PPAR-α, PPAR-γ, and PPAR-δ receptors of these 3 species. These data suggest that the peroxisomal effects observed in rodents and the lipid regulating effects observed in rodents and humans are not related to a direct activation of PPAR receptors by gemcabene.

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Date of publication: July 2018; Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology, Volume 72 – Issue 1

Author information: Charles L. Bisgaier, PhD (1); Daniela C. Oniciu, PhD (1); & Rai Ajit K. Srivastava, PhD (1)

(1) Gemphire Therapeutics Inc, Livonia, MI.

Filed Under: New Publications Tagged With: gemcabene, nuclear hormone receptors, PPARα, PPARγ, PPARδ, transactivation

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