Teriflunomide

Catalog No.S4169 Batch:S416903

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Technical Data

Formula

C12H9F3N2O2

Molecular Weight 270.21 CAS No. 163451-81-8
Solubility (25°C)* In vitro DMSO 54 mg/mL (199.84 mM)
Water Insoluble
Ethanol 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 Teriflunomide (A77 1726, HMR-1726) is the active metabolite of leflunomide, inhibiting pyrimidine de novo synthesis by blocking the enzyme dihydroorotate dehydrogenase, used as an immunomodulatory agent.
Targets
dihydroorotate dehydrogenase [1]
In vitro Teriflunomide primarily acts as an inhibitor of dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (DHODH), a key mitochondrial enzyme involved in the de novo synthesis of pyrimidines in rapidly proliferating cells. By reducing the activity of high-avidity proliferating T lymphocytes and B lymphocytes, teriflunomide likely attenuates the inflammatory response to autoantigens in MS. Thus, teriflunomide can be considered a cytostatic rather than a cytotoxic drug to leukocytes. [1]
In vivo Teriflunomide has demonstrated beneficial effects in two independent animal models of demyelinating disease. In the dark agouti rat model of experimental autoimmune encephalitis (EAE), teriflunomide administration results in clinical, histopathological, and electrophysiological evidence of efficacy both as a prophylactic and therapeutic agent. Similarly, in the female Lewis rat model of EAE, teriflunomide administration results in beneficial prophylactic and therapeutic clinical effects, with a delay in disease onset and symptom severity. [1]

Protocol (from reference)

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Data from [Data independently produced by , , Toxicol Lett, 2018, 282:154-165]

Selleck's Teriflunomide has been cited by 20 publications

Selective vulnerability of human-induced pluripotent stem cells to dihydroorotate dehydrogenase inhibition during mesenchymal stem/stromal cell purification [ Front Cell Dev Biol, 2023, 11:1089945] PubMed: 36814599
Proof-of-principle studies on a strategy to enhance nucleotide imbalance specifically in cancer cells [ Cell Death Discov, 2022, 8(1):464] PubMed: 36424385
Inhibitors of dihydroorotate dehydrogenase cooperate with molnupiravir and N4-hydroxycytidine to suppress SARS-CoV-2 replication [ iScience, 2022, 25(5):104293] PubMed: 35492218
Inhibition of de novo pyrimidine synthesis augments Gemcitabine induced growth inhibition in an immunocompetent model of pancreatic cancer [ Int J Biol Sci, 2021, 17(9):2240-2251] PubMed: 34239352
The Mitochondria-Independent Cytotoxic Effect of Leflunomide on RPMI-8226 Multiple Myeloma Cell Line [ Molecules, 2021, 26(18)5653] PubMed: 34577124
Inhibition of canine distemper virus replication by blocking pyrimidine nucleotide synthesis with A77 1726, the active metabolite of the anti-inflammatory drug leflunomide [ J Gen Virol, 2021, 102(3)] PubMed: 33416466
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
N4-hydroxycytidine and inhibitors of dihydroorotate dehydrogenase synergistically suppress SARS-CoV-2 replication [ bioRxiv, 2021, 10.1101/2021.06.28.450163] PubMed: N/A
N4-hydroxycytidine and inhibitors of dihydroorotate dehydrogenase synergistically suppress SARS-CoV-2 replication [ bioRxiv, 2021, 10.1101/2021.06.28.450163] PubMed: None
Actionable Cytopathogenic Host Responses of Human Alveolar Type 2 Cells to SARS-CoV-2 [ Mol Cell, 2020, 80(6):1104-1122.e9] PubMed: 33259812

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