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dimethyl fumarate   Click here for help

GtoPdb Ligand ID: 7045

Synonyms: BG-12 | BG00012 | fumaric acid | Tecfidera®
Approved drug PDB Ligand Immunopharmacology Ligand
dimethyl fumarate is an approved drug (FDA (2013), EMA (2014))
Compound class: Synthetic organic
Comment: The active metabolite of dimethyl fumarate is monomethyl fumarate.
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2D Structure
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2D Structure

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Physico-chemical Properties
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Physico-chemical Properties

Calculated molecular properties are available for small molecules and natural products (not peptides). Properties were generated using the Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) (Willighagen EL et al. Journal of Cheminformatics vol. 9:33. 2017, doi:10.1186/s13321-017-0220-4; https://cdk.github.io/). All properties were selected to enable the prediction of the Lipinski Rule-of-Five profile or ‘druglikeness’ for each ligand. For more info on each category see the help pages.

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Hydrogen bond acceptors 4
Hydrogen bond donors 0
Rotatable bonds 4
Topological polar surface area 52.6
Molecular weight 144.04
XLogP 0.23
No. Lipinski's rules broken 0

Generated using the Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) (Willighagen EL et al. Journal of Cheminformatics vol. 9:33. 2017, doi:10.1186/s13321-017-0220-4; https://cdk.github.io/)
SMILES / InChI / InChIKey
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SMILES / InChI / InChIKey

SMILES (Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry Specification) A specification for unambiguously describing the structure of chemical molecules using short ASCII strings. Canonical SMILES specify a unique representation of the 2D structure without chiral or isotopic specifications. Isomeric SMILES include chiral specification and isotopes.

Standard InChI (IUPAC International Chemical Identifier) and InChIKey InChI is a non-proprietary, standard, textual identifier for chemical substances designed to facilitate linking of information and database searching. An InChIKey is a simplified version of a full InChI, designed for easier web searching.

Generated using the Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) (Willighagen EL et al. Journal of Cheminformatics vol. 9:33. 2017, doi:10.1186/s13321-017-0220-4; https://cdk.github.io/)

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Canonical SMILES COC(=O)C=CC(=O)OC
Isomeric SMILES COC(=O)/C=C/C(=O)OC
InChI InChI=1S/C6H8O4/c1-9-5(7)3-4-6(8)10-2/h3-4H,1-2H3/b4-3+
InChI Key LDCRTTXIJACKKU-ONEGZZNKSA-N

Generated using the Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) (Willighagen EL et al. Journal of Cheminformatics vol. 9:33. 2017, doi:10.1186/s13321-017-0220-4; https://cdk.github.io/)
Immunopharmacology Comments
DMF is converted to an active metabolite that is an inhibitor of the KEAP1-Nrf2 protein-protein interaction, or functional Nrf2 activator. Compounds exhibiting this mechanism of action have anti-inflammatory and cytoprotective activity.
Immunopharmacology Disease
Disease X-Refs Comment References
Multiple sclerosis Disease Ontology: DOID:2377
OMIM: 126200
Orphanet: ORPHA802
 Approved drug for relapsing MS. The effect of DMF on innate and adaptive immunity in MS is discussed by Diebold et al. (2018) 2