Marimastat was a proposed antineoplastic drug developed by British Biotech. It acted as a broad-spectrum matrix metalloproteinase inhibitor.[1][2]

Marimastat
Clinical data
Routes of
administration
By mouth
ATC code
  • None
Legal status
Legal status
  • Development terminated?
Identifiers
  • N-[2,2-Dimethyl-1-(methylcarbamoyl)propyl]-2-[hydroxy-(hydroxycarbamoyl)methyl]-4- methyl-pentanamide
CAS Number
PubChem CID
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UNII
ChEMBL
PDB ligand
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Chemical and physical data
FormulaC15H29N3O5
Molar mass331.413 g·mol−1
3D model (JSmol)
  • O=C(NO)[C@@H](O)[C@H](C(=O)N[C@H](C(=O)NC)C(C)(C)C)CC(C)C
  • InChI=1S/C15H29N3O5/c1-8(2)7-9(10(19)13(21)18-23)12(20)17-11(14(22)16-6)15(3,4)5/h8-11,19,23H,7H2,1-6H3,(H,16,22)(H,17,20)(H,18,21)/t9-,10+,11-/m1/s1 ☒N
  • Key:OCSMOTCMPXTDND-OUAUKWLOSA-N ☒N
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Marimastat performed poorly in clinical trials,[3] and development was terminated.[citation needed] This may be, however, a result of targeting cancer at too late of a stage. This is supported by the fact that MMP inhibitors have more recently been shown in animal models to be more effective in earlier stages of cancers. (Effects of angiogenesis inhibitors on multistage carcinogenesis in mice. Science 284, 808-812. Bergers, G., Javaherian, K., Lo, K.-M., Folkman, J., and Hanahan, D. (1999)).

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References

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  1. ^ "Marimastat". National Cancer Institute.
  2. ^ Millar AW, Brown PD, Moore J, Galloway WA, Cornish AG, Lenehan TJ, Lynch KP (January 1998). "Results of single and repeat dose studies of the oral matrix metalloproteinase inhibitor marimastat in healthy male volunteers". British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. 45 (1): 21–6. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2125.1998.00639.x. PMC 1873993. PMID 9489589.
  3. ^ Sparano JA, Bernardo P, Stephenson P, Gradishar WJ, Ingle JN, Zucker S, Davidson NE (December 2004). "Randomized phase III trial of marimastat versus placebo in patients with metastatic breast cancer who have responding or stable disease after first-line chemotherapy: Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group trial E2196". Journal of Clinical Oncology. 22 (23): 4683–90. doi:10.1200/JCO.2004.08.054. PMID 15570070.