Mycophenolic acid

Catalog No.S2487 Batch:S248702

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Technical Data

Formula

C17H20O6

Molecular Weight 320.34 CAS No. 24280-93-1
Solubility (25°C)* In vitro DMSO 64 mg/mL (199.78 mM)
Ethanol 18 mg/mL (56.19 mM)
Water Insoluble
* <1 mg/ml means slightly soluble or insoluble.
* Please note that Selleck tests the solubility of all compounds in-house, and the actual solubility may differ slightly from published values. This is normal and is due to slight batch-to-batch variations.
* Room temperature shipping (Stability testing shows this product can be shipped without any cooling measures.)

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Biological Activity

Description Mycophenolic acid (Mycophenolate, RS-61443) is a potent IMPDH inhibitor and the active metabolite of an immunosuppressive drug, used to prevent rejection in organ transplantation.
Targets
IMPDH [1]
In vitro Mycophenolic acid inhibits inosine-5'-monophosphate dehydrogenase (IMPDH) by acting as a replacement for the nicotinamide portion of the nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide cofactor and a catalytic water molecule. [1] Mycophenolic acid (MPA), an inhibitor of inosine monophosphate dehydrogenase, in nanomolar concentrations blocks proliferative responses of cultured human, mouse and rat T lymphocytes and B lymphocytes to mitogens or in mixed lymphocyte reactions. Mycophenolic acid (MPA) suppresses mixed lymphocyte reactions when added 3 days after their initiation. Mycophenolic acid also inhibits antibody formation by polyclonally activated human B lymphocytes. Mycophenolic acid is an immunosuppressive agent reversibly inhibiting proliferation of T and B lymphocytes and antibody formation, with a profile of activity different from that of other immunosuppressive drugs. [2] Mycophenolic acid inhibits the formation of antibodies to sheep erythrocytes. Mycophenolic acid also suppresses, in a dose-related manner, the generation of cytotoxic T-lymphocytes against allogeneic cells in mice and prevents the elimination of allogeneic cells. [3] Mycophenolic acid induces apoptosis and cell death in a large proportion of activated CD4+ T cells. [4]
In vivo Mycophenolic acid has lymphocyte-selective anti-proliferative effects in mice and can inhibit both cell-mediated and humoral immune responses without major side effects. [3]

Protocol (from reference)

Selleck's Mycophenolic acid has been cited by 10 publications

Gut microbiota-mediated nucleotide synthesis attenuates the response to neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy in rectal cancer [ Cancer Cell, 2023, 41(1):124-138.e6] PubMed: 36563680
Multiparametric Profiling of Neutrophil Function via a High-Throughput Flow Cytometry-Based Assay [ Cells, 2023, 12(5)743] PubMed: 36899878
Integrated cytokine and metabolite analysis reveals immunometabolic reprogramming in COVID-19 patients with therapeutic implications [ Nat Commun, 2021, 12(1):1618] PubMed: 33712622
Application of a newly-developed cynomolgus macaque BiTE-mediated cytotoxic T-lymphocyte activity assay to various immunomodulatory agents in vitro [ J Immunotoxicol, 2021, 18(1):154-162] PubMed: 34714999
High-Throughput Screening of an FDA-Approved Drug Library Identifies Inhibitors against Arenaviruses and SARS-CoV-2 [ ACS Infect Dis, 2020, acsinfecdis.0c00486] PubMed: 33183004
Identification of Modulators of HIV-1 Proviral Transcription from a Library of FDA-Approved Pharmaceuticals [ Viruses, 2020, 12(10)E1067] PubMed: 32977702
Inosine Monophosphate Dehydrogenase Dependence in a Subset of Small Cell Lung Cancers. [ Cell Metab, 2018, 28(3):369-382] PubMed: 30043754
Zika virus cell tropism in the developing human brain and inhibition by azithromycin. [ Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2016, 113(50):14408-14413] PubMed: 27911847
Btk inhibition treats TLR7/IFN driven murine lupus [Bender AT Clin Immunol, 2016, 164:65-77] PubMed: 26821304
A sensitive virus yield assay for evaluation of Antivirals against Zika Virus. [Goebel S, et al. J Virol Methods, 2016, 238:13-20] PubMed: 27678028

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