Abstract: Oligonucleotide surrogates comprising a plurality of cyclobutyl moieties covalently joined by linking moieties are prepared and used as antisense diagnostics, therapeutics and research reagents. Methods of synthesis and use of both the oligonucleotide surrogates and intermediates thereof are disclosed.

Abstract: Oligonucleotide surrogates comprising a plurality of cyclobutyl moieties covalently joined by linking moieties are prepared and used as antisense diagnostics and research reagents. Methods of synthesis and use of both the oligonucleotide surrogates and intermediates thereof are disclosed.

Abstract: Salts of aminosulfonic acid derivatives of formula I ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are each independently of the others an aliphatic hydrocarbon radical having from 7 to 21 carbon atoms,n is 0 or 1,As is the amidically bonded residue of a (D)- or (L)-amino acid or of a (D)- or (L)-amino acid derivative from the group consisting of Gly, Ala, Ser, Thr, Asp, Asp(R.sup.5), Glu, Glu(R.sup.5), Gla, Gla(R.sup.5) and Gla(R.sup.5).sub.2, andR.sup.4 and R.sup.5 are each independently of the other the amidically bonded radical of an unsubstituted or carboxy-substituted .omega.-amino-C.sub.2 -C.sub.3 alkanesulfonic acid, are described.Those salts have an immunostimulating action and can be used as medicaments.

Abstract: The L-arginine salt of N-(D)-{[2-(2,6-dichlorophenylamino}phenyl]acetyl]aspartic acid, represented by the formula ##STR1## in which AmH .sym. represents the cation derived from L-arginine Am of the formula ##STR2## and its hydrates exhibit and excellent water-solubility and a physiologically favorable pH value and also a pleasant taste in aqueous solutions and are therefore excellently suitable for enternal and parenteral forms of administration. It is manufactured by reacting L-arginine with D-{[2-(2,6-dichlorophenylamino)phenyl]-acetyl}aspartic acid.

Abstract: Cephalin derivatives of the formula I ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 each represents, independently of the other, hydrogen or lower alkyl, R.sup.3 represents hydrogen, lower alkoxycarbonyl, carbamoyl or free or protected carboxy, R.sup.4 represents hydrogen or an aliphatic, aromatic, aromatic-aliphatic or cycloaliphatic radical, W represents hydrogen and Z represents a 1,2-dihydroxyethyl, 2-hydroxyethyl or hydroxymethyl group in which at least one hydroxy group is esterified by an aliphatic C.sub.6-30 -carboxylic acid or etherified by an aliphatic C.sub.6-30 -alcohol and in which the other hydroxy group, if present, is free, esterified by an aliphatic C.sub.2-30 -carboxylic acid or etherified by an aliphatic C.sub.1-30 -alcohol, or W represents hydroxymethyl or a hydroxymethyl group that is esterified by an aliphatic C.sub.6-30 -alcohol and Z represents a hydroxymethyl group that is esterified by an aliphatic C.sub.6-30 -carboxylic acid or etherified by an aliphatic C.sub.

Abstract: Mono- and di-saccharidyl derivatives that are linked via a bridge member to a cephalin derivative, of the formula I, and processes for their manufacture are described. ##STR1## In the formula, R.sup.1 represents (a) aldohexosyl, (b) D-aldohexosyl that is glycosidically linked in the 4- or the 6-position to D-aldohexosyl, (c) aldopentosyl, (d) 6-deoxyaldohexosyl or (e) 2-acetylamino-2-deoxy-D-aldohexosyl, it being possible for free hydroxy groups present in the radicals mentioned under (a) to (e) above to be peracetylated, X represents oxygen or sulphur, Y represents alkylene having up to 10 carbon atoms in which from 1 to 3 non-terminal methylene groups may be replaced by oxygen, by carbonylimino or by carbonyloxy, R.sup.2 represents hydrogen, carboxy, lower alkoxycarbonyl, benzyloxycarbonyl or carbamoyl, R.sup.3 represents hydrogen and R.sup.4 represents a 1,2-dihydroxy-ethyl, 2-hydroxy-ethyl or hydroxymethyl group in which at least one hydroxy group is esterified by an unsubstituted aliphatic C.sub.

Abstract: Described are phosphatidyl compounds of the formula I ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 represents C.sub.3-14 -alkanoyl, benzoyl, the acyl radical of an .alpha.-aminocarboxylic acid that is other than glycine, L-alanine and derivatives thereof having a substituted amino group, and of which the .alpha.-amino group may be substituted by lower alkanoyl, lower alkoxycarbonyl or by benzyloxycarbonyl, or the acyl radical of a .beta.-aminocarboxylic acid or an .alpha.- or .beta.-hydroxycarboxylic acid,T represents a group NH that is unsubstituted or is substituted by lower alkyl, or oxygen,Y represents dimethylene that is unsubstituted or is substituted by free, etherified or amidated carboxy,W represents hydrogen, andZ represents a 1,2-dihydroxyethyl, 2-hydroxyethyl or hydroxymethyl group, in which at least one of the hydroxy groups is esterified by an aliphatic C.sub.8-30 -carboxylic acid or is etherified by an aliphaticC.sub.

Abstract: There are described sugar derivatives of the formula I ##STR1## that have immuno-stimulating action and that contain as inventive element at least one radical A.sup.1 or A.sup.2. These radicals A.sup.1 and A.sup.2, which may be constituents of the radicals R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.4, R.sup.6, R.sup.9, R.sup.10 or R.sup.12 according to formula I, are defined as follows:A.sup.1 represents lower alkanoyl that is substituted by aryl, heteroaryl or heteroarylthio and that may be additionally substituted by an ethylene radical which, with the above-mentioned aryl or heteroaryl substituent, forms a five-membered ring or represents ortho- or ortho/meta-substituted aroyl. A.sup.2 represents lower alkoxy substituted by aryl, heteroaryl or heteroarylthio.Also described are processes for the manufacture of the compounds of the formula I and novel intermediates.

Abstract: The invention relates to lipopeptides of the formula I, ##STR1## in which each of R.sub.a.sup.1 and R.sub.b.sup.1, independently of the other, represents an aliphatic or cycloaliphatic-aliphatic hydrocarbon radical having from 7 to 21 carbon atoms that is optionally substituted by oxygen functions, orone of the radicals R.sub.a.sup.1 --CO-- and R.sub.b.sup.1 --CO-- represents hydrogen and the other of the radicals R.sub.a.sup.1 --CO-- and R.sub.b.sup.1 --CO-- represents an acyl radical, wherein R.sub.a.sup.1 and R.sub.b.sup.1 have the meanings given above,R.sup.2 represents an aliphatic or cycloaliphatic-aliphatic hydrocarbon radical having from 1 to 21 carbon atoms that is optionally substituted by oxygen functions,n=0 or 1,As.degree. represents a radical of the formula --O--Kw--CO-- or --NH--Kw--CO-- wherein Kw represents an aliphatic hydrocarbon radical having a maximum of 12 carbon atoms,As.sup.1 represents a D- or L-.alpha.-amino acid,each of Z.sup.1 and Z.sup.

Abstract: There are described sugar derivatives of the formula I ##STR1## that have immuno-stimulating action and that contain as inventive element at least one radical A.sup.1 or A.sup.2. These radicals A.sup.1 and A.sup.2, which may be constituents of the radicals R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.4, R.sup.6, R.sup.9, R.sup.10 or R.sup.12 according to formula I, are defined as follows:A.sup.1 represents lower alkanoyl that is substituted by aryl, heteroaryl or heteroarylthio and that may be additionally substituted by an ethylene radical which, with the above-mentioned aryl or heteroaryl substituent, forms a five-membered ring or represents ortho- or ortho/meta-substituted aroyl. A.sup.2 represents lower alkoxy substituted by aryl heteroaryl or heteroarylthio.Also described are processes for the manufacture of the compounds of the formula I and novel intermediates.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel antigen derivatives comprising an antigen and at least one muramylpeptide covalently bonded thereto, if appropriate via a spacer, to pharmaceutical preparations which contain such compounds and to their use as a vaccine.The novel antigen derivatives produce a pronounced increase in the immuno-response to the antigen, and in particular also a cell-medicated immunity under clinically acceptable conditions of administration.

Abstract: The compounds of the formula I ##STR1## in which each of R.sup.1, R.sup.4 and R.sup.6, independently of the others, represents hydrogen or lower alkanoyl, R.sup.2 represents C.sub.1-4 -alkyl, hydroxymethyl or phenyl, R.sup.3 represents hydrogen or methyl, R.sup.5 represents hydrogen or C.sub.1-3 -alkyl, R.sup.7 represents C.sub.1-3 -alkyl that is unsubstituted or substituted by hydroxy, mercapto or methylthio, R.sup.8 represents hydrogen or lower alkyl, X represents oxygen or the group NH, Y represents C.sub.1-4 -alkylidene, and each of R.sup.9 and R.sup.10, independently of the other, represents C.sub.11-17 -alkyl or C.sub.11-17 -alkenyl, and their salts, have an immunostimulating activeity.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel antigen derivatives comprising an antigen and at least one muramyl-peptide covalently bonded thereto, if appropriate via a spacer, to pharmaceutical preparations which contain such compounds and to their use as a vaccine.The novel antigen derivatives produce a pronounced increase in the immuno-response to the antigen, and in particular also a cell-medicated immunity under clinically acceptable conditions of administration.

Abstract: The present invention relates to new lipopeptides and in particular to compounds of either of the formulae ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each represent a saturated or unsaturated aliphatic or mixed aliphatic-cycloaliphatic hydrocarbon radical which has 11-21 C atoms and which is also optionally substituted by oxygen functions, R.sub.3 represents hydrogen or the radical R.sub.1 --CO--O--CH.sub.2 --, where R.sub.1 has the same meaning, R.sub.1 ' is a saturated or unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon radical of at least 9 C atoms, which is optionally substituted at one of the C atoms non adjacent to the sulfur atom by a free hydroxyl group or a hydroxyl group esterified with a monobasic carboxylic acid and which is optionally interrupted in the C atoms chain by one or more oxygen atoms, and which hydrocarbon is optionally substituted by a maximum of 2 cycloaliphatic hydrocarbon radicals having 5-8 ring C atoms, or R.sub.1 ' is the radical --CO--R.sub.1 ", wherein R.sub.

Abstract: There are described hexopyranose compounds of the formula I and salts thereof having immunomodulatory action, which can be used, for example, in the form of pharmaceutical preparations, and also together with antibiotics, and processes for their manufacture. ##STR1## The variables are as described in the disclosure. The invention relates to the above-mentioned compounds as immunomodulators, especially as immunostimulants, their use as pharmacologically active substances, especially their use as immunomodulators, particularly as immunostimulants, and their use for the manufacture of pharmaceutical preparations, and to pharmaceutical preparations containing these compounds.

Abstract: Phenylacetic acid amide compounds of the formula ##STR1## in which R.sub.1 is hydrogen, lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, halogen having an atomic number of not more than 35 or trifluoromethyl, R.sub.2 is hydrogen, lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, halogen having an atomic number of not more than 35 or trifluoromethyl, R.sub.3 is hydrogen, lower alkyl, lower alkoxy or halogen having an atomic number of not more than 35 and R.sub.4 is hydrogen, lower alkyl, lower alkoxy or halogen having an atomic number of not more than 35, and in which R.sub.5 is a radical of aliphatic character containing the group R.sub.6, R.sub.6 and R.sub.7 are each hydrogen or together are a divalent aliphatic radical and the group of the formula --C(.dbd.O)--R.sub.8 (Ia) is a carboxyl group, which can be functionally modified, and their salts are useful as anti-inflammatory agents.

Abstract: Phenylacetic acid amide compounds of the formula ##STR1## in which R.sub.1 is hydrogen, lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, halogen having an atomic number of not more than 35 or trifluoromethyl, R.sub.2 is hydrogen, lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, halogen having an atomic number of not more than 35 or trifluoromethyl, R.sub.3 is hydrogen, lower alkyl, lower alkoxy or halogen having an atomic number of not more than 35 and R.sub.4 is hydrogen, lower alkyl, lower alkoxy or halogen having an atomic number of not more than 35, and in which R.sub.5 is a radical of aliphatic character containing the group R.sub.6, R.sub.6 and R.sub.7 are each hydrogen or together are a divalent aliphatic radical and the group of the formula --C(.dbd.O)--R.sub.8 (Ia) is a carboxyl group, which can be functionally modified, and their salts are useful as anti-inflammatory agents.

Abstract: The invention relates to pharmaceutical preparations that contain an antibiotic and a muramylpeptide of the formula I or a salt thereof, to processes for their manufacture and to a method for increasing the antibiotic effectiveness of antibiotics. ##STR1## In the formula I, X represents carbonyl or carbonyloxy, R.sub.1 represents optionally substituted alkyl or aryl, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4 and R.sub.6 represent hydrogen or lower alkyl, R.sub.5 represents hydrogen, optionally substituted lower alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl or nitrogen-containing heterocyclyl, or R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 together represent also C.sub.3 -C.sub.4 alkylene, R.sub.7 represents hydrogen or free, esterified or amidated carboxyl, one of the radicals A.sub.1 and A.sub.2 represents a radical of the formula II and the other of the radicals A.sub.1 and A.sub.2 represents optionally substituted or functionally modified hydroxy or amino.

Abstract: Phosphorylmuramyl peptides of the formula ##STR1## are immuno-potentiating. In the formula, R.sub.1 represents optionally substituted alkyl or aryl, R.sub.2, R.sub.4, R.sub.6 and R.sub.7 represent, for example, hydrogen, R.sub.3 represents hydrogen or lower alkyl, R.sub.5 represents, for example, hydrogen, lower alkyl, hydroxy-lower alkyl, amino-lower alkyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkyl-lower alkyl, aryl or aralkyl, or nitrogen-containing heterocyclyl or heterocyclyl-lower alkyl, and one of the radicals A.sub.1 and A.sub.2 represents a radical of the formula (II) ##STR2## In the formula (II), T represents NH or O, Y represents an optionally substituted alkylene group, which may also be interrupted by one or two oxycarbonyl and/or iminocarbonyl groups, and W represents an aliphatic radical or a cycloalkyl or cycloalkenyl radical having more than 6 carbon atoms. The other of the radicals A.sub.1 and A.sub.2 represents free or etherified hydroxy, amino, lower alkylamino or aminocarbonyl-lower alkylamino.

Abstract: The invention relates to muramyl peptide compounds, especially of the formula ##STR1## in which R.sub.1 represents, for example, alkyl or phenyl,R.sub.3 represents, for example, hydrogen or methyl andR.sub.5 represents, for example, hydrogen or lower alkyl optionally substituted, for example, by hydroxy, mercapto, or methylthio,and in which one of the radicalsA.sub.1 and A.sub.2 represents a group of the formula ##STR2## in which T represents the group of the formula -NH or -O, andY represents an alkylene radical optionally interrupted by a radical of the formula -CO-O- or -CO-NH-,and in whichW represents hydrogen andZ represents a hydroxy-substituted ethyl group, wherein at least one hydroxy group is esterified by a long-chained acyl radical orW and Z represent hydroxymethyl, wherein hydroxy is esterified by a long-chained acyl radical,and the other of the radicals A.sub.1 and A.sub.2 represents optionally etherified hydroxy or optionally substituted amino.