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c/orforglipron·submitted 2 months ago by u/lucia_bruun

three years of small molecule threads, summarised so you do not have to read them

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three years of small molecule threads, summarised so you do not have to read them. Change my mind, genuinely — I have no stake in being right about this. Analytically this is a small-molecule identity and purity problem, not a peptide one. The methods, the impurity classes and the reference standards are all…

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u/aksel_kjaer40 points·2 months ago

a non-peptide agonist does not degrade the way a peptide does

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u/freya_marchand25 points·2 months ago

Spent an evening reading about small-molecule agonism at a peptide receptor. Genuinely interesting engineering.

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u/hazard_ratio_halstats7 points·2 months ago

nothing containing this is approved anywhere yet

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u/salma_almeida51 points·2 months ago

phase 3 is where the comparison becomes fair

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u/marit_sandvik13 points·2 months ago

It is a non-peptide small-molecule agonist at the GLP-1 receptor. That is a substantial medicinal chemistry achievement: getting a small molecule to activate a receptor evolved for a peptide ligand.

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u/cato_batista68 points·2 months ago

Assumed the peptide purity conversations transferred and they do not. Different analytical problem entirely.

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