ganaxolone   Click here for help

GtoPdb Ligand ID: 11942

Synonyms: CCD-1042 | CCD1042 | Ztalmy®
Approved drug
ganaxolone is an approved drug (FDA (2022), EMA (2023))
Compound class: Synthetic organic
Comment: Ganaxolone is a synthetic analogue of the neuroactive steroid allopregnanolone (5α-pregnan-3α-ol-20-one). Its anti-seizure effect is likely associated with its activity as a positive allosteric modulator of the GABAA receptor [1,3-4].
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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 2
Hydrogen bond donors 1
Rotatable bonds 1
Topological polar surface area 37.3
Molecular weight 332.27
XLogP 6.51
No. Lipinski's rules broken 1

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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.

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Canonical SMILES CC(=O)[C@H]1CC[C@@H]2[C@]1(C)CC[C@H]1[C@H]2CC[C@@H]2[C@]1(C)CC[C@@](C2)(C)O
Isomeric SMILES CC(=O)[C@H]1CC[C@@H]2[C@@]1(CC[C@H]1[C@H]2CC[C@@H]2[C@@]1(CC[C@@](C2)(C)O)C)C
InChI InChI=1S/C22H36O2/c1-14(23)17-7-8-18-16-6-5-15-13-20(2,24)11-12-21(15,3)19(16)9-10-22(17,18)4/h15-19,24H,5-13H2,1-4H3/t15-,16-,17+,18-,19-,20+,21-,22+/m0/s1
InChI Key PGTVWKLGGCQMBR-FLBATMFCSA-N

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References
1. Carter RB, Wood PL, Wieland S, Hawkinson JE, Belelli D, Lambert JJ, White HS, Wolf HH, Mirsadeghi S, Tahir SH et al.. (1997)
Characterization of the anticonvulsant properties of ganaxolone (CCD 1042; 3alpha-hydroxy-3beta-methyl-5alpha-pregnan-20-one), a selective, high-affinity, steroid modulator of the gamma-aminobutyric acid(A) receptor.
J Pharmacol Exp Ther, 280 (3): 1284-95. [PMID:9067315]
2. Hogenkamp DJ, Tahir SH, Hawkinson JE, Upasani RB, Alauddin M, Kimbrough CL, Acosta-Burruel M, Whittemore ER, Woodward RM, Lan NC et al.. (1997)
Synthesis and in vitro activity of 3 beta-substituted-3 alpha-hydroxypregnan-20-ones: allosteric modulators of the GABAA receptor.
J Med Chem, 40 (1): 61-72. [PMID:9016329]
3. Martinez Botella G, Salituro FG, Harrison BL, Beresis RT, Bai Z, Shen K, Belfort GM, Loya CM, Ackley MA, Grossman SJ et al.. (2015)
Neuroactive Steroids. 1. Positive Allosteric Modulators of the (γ-Aminobutyric Acid)A Receptor: Structure-Activity Relationships of Heterocyclic Substitution at C-21.
J Med Chem, 58 (8): 3500-11. [PMID:25799373]
4. Reddy DS, Rogawski MA. (2000)
Chronic treatment with the neuroactive steroid ganaxolone in the rat induces anticonvulsant tolerance to diazepam but not to itself.
J Pharmacol Exp Ther, 295 (3): 1241-8. [PMID:11082461]