GtoPdb is requesting financial support from commercial users. Please see our sustainability page for more information.
| 
                               
                            
                                
                                                                Synonyms: IFB-088 | IFB088 | Sephin-1 | Sephin1
                                 
                                                         
                            Compound class: 
                                                            Synthetic organic
                                 
                                
                                    
                                        Comment: Icerguastat (IFB-088, Sephin1) selectively inhibits the regulatory subunit PPP1R15A within the PPP1R15A/PP1c phosphatase complex [2]. Inhibiting PPP1R15A results in reduced dephosphorylation of the translation initiation factor eIF2α, which rescues cells from proteostasis collapse. Structurally icerguastat is a guanabenz derivative but it has no α2-adrenerceptor agonist activity. Icerguastat is designed to maintain an active integrated stress response as a cytoprotective mechanism to combat the toxic effects of cellular stress [1].
                                    
                                 
                            
                            
                          
                                
                                    
                                
                          
                                   
                                   
                                  
                                      
                                     
                                   
                                   
                                    
                                    
                                     | 
                                    
                                        
                                         
  | 
                                    
                                
                                |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bioactivity Comments | 
| Binds selectively to PPP1R15A and disrupts the PPP1R15A-PP1c complex [2]. |