A compound comprising a biotin residue having antithrombotic Activity

Abstract

The present invention relates compound of the formula (I) oligosaccharide-spacer-A (I), wherein the oligosaccharide is a negatively charged oligosaccharide residue comprising two to twenty five monosaccharide units, the charge being compensated by positively charged counterions, and wherein the oligosaccharide residue is derived from an oligosaccharide which has (AT-III mediated) anti-Xa activity per se; the spacer is an essentially pharmacologically inactive flexible linking residue having a chain length of 10 to 70 atoms; A is the residue -CH[NH-S02-R1 ][CO-NR2 - -CH(4-benzamidine)-CO-NR3 R4 ], wherein R1 is phenyl, naphthyl, 1,2,3,4-tetrahydronaphthyl, (iso)quinolinyl, tetrahydro(iso)quinolinyl, 3,4-dihydro-1H-isoquinolinyl, chromanyl or the camphor group, which groups may optionally be substituted with one or more substituents selected from (1 -8C)alkyl or (1-8C)alkoxy; and wherein R2 and R3 are independently H or (1-8C)alkyl; R4 is (1-8C)alkyl or (3-8C)cycloalkyl; or R3 and R4 together with the nitrogen atom to which they are bonded are a nonaromatic (4-8)membered ring optionally containing another heteroatom, the ring optionally being substituted with (1-8C)alkyl or SO2-(1-8C)alkyl; wherein the compound of formula I further comprises at least one covalent bond with a biotin residue or an analogue thereof. The compound of the invention have antithrombotic activity and can be used in treating or preventing thrombosis or other thrombin-related diseases. The antithrombotic activity of the compound of this invention can be neutralized in case of emergency upon adminstration of avidin, streptavidin and analogues thereof having high biotin affinity.