tafamidis   Click here for help

GtoPdb Ligand ID: 8378

Synonyms: FX-1006 | Vyndamax® | Vyndaqel®
Approved drug PDB Ligand
tafamidis is an approved drug (EMA and UK (2011), FDA (2019))
Compound class: Synthetic organic
Comment: Tafamidis binds potently and selectively to transthyretin (TTR), stabilising protein tetramers, thereby inhibiting the formation of amyloid fibrils [2]. The trade name for this drug is Vyndaqel which contains tafamidis meglumine (PubChem CID 24970412). The Vyndamax brand contains tafamidis parent molecule.
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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 3
Hydrogen bond donors 1
Rotatable bonds 2
Topological polar surface area 63.33
Molecular weight 306.98
XLogP 4.02
No. Lipinski's rules broken 0

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SMILES / InChI / InChIKey

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Canonical SMILES Clc1cc(Cl)cc(c1)c1nc2c(o1)cc(cc2)C(=O)O
Isomeric SMILES Clc1cc(Cl)cc(c1)c1nc2c(o1)cc(cc2)C(=O)O
InChI InChI=1S/C14H7Cl2NO3/c15-9-3-8(4-10(16)6-9)13-17-11-2-1-7(14(18)19)5-12(11)20-13/h1-6H,(H,18,19)
InChI Key TXEIIPDJKFWEEC-UHFFFAOYSA-N

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Summary of Clinical Use Click here for help
Tafamidis is approved to treat transthyretin (TTR)-mediated amyloidosis (aka familial amyloid polyneuropathy or FAP), a rare hereditary disease caused by amyloid build up in tissues around the body including around the nerves. Its use can reduce cardiovascular mortality and cardiovascular-related hospitalisations in patients with cardiomyopathy resulting from TTR-mediated amyloidosis [4,6]. The drug was granted orphan designation in the EU (2012) for the treatment of senile systemic amyloidosis (SSA), another TTR amyloid disease [7].
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Tafamidis stabilises TTR tetramer formation, preventing the dissociation which underlies the mis-folding and aggregation of TTR into amyloid fibrils. The deposition of these fibrils eventually causes degradation of the autonomic nervous system [1].
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For extended ADME data see the following:

Electronic Medicines Compendium (eMC)
European Medicines Agency (EMA)