SMN2-Stablizer-27 is a stablizer of survival of motor neuron 2 (SMN2), and a post-translationally stablizing SMN protein for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).
SMND-309 is a metabolite of salvianolic acid B. It also shows neuroprotective effects in cultured neurons and in permanent middle cerebral artery occlusion rats.
Branaplam is a highly potent, selective and orally active SMN2 splicing modulator. Branaplam increases the amount of functional SMN protein produced by the SMN2 gene through modifying its splicing.
ML372 is a potent and selective SMN Modulator (EC50 = 12 nM, 325% increase inSMN2) with good potency, pharmacokinetics, tolerance, and CNS penetration.
NVS-SM2 is an effective small molecule splicing enhancer of SMN2 with oral activity. NVS-SM2 showed increased exon 7 inclusion and upregulated SMN protein expression in SMA fibroblasts and SMN cells Δ7 5025 mouse myoblasts.
The Survival of Motor Neurons (SMN) protein participates in RNA splicing. Decreases in SMN, typically a consequence of defects in the smn1 gene, result in the death of motor neurons and lead to the neurodegenerative disease, spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Cuspin-1 is a small molecule upregulator of SMN that has been shown in vitro to increase levels of SMN in SMA patient fibroblasts by 50% at 18 μM. Its mechanism of action is thought to involve increased phosphorylation of ERK to initiate Ras-Raf-MEK signaling, which results in an increased rate of SMN translation.