Symlin

Pramlintide

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Clinical data
Trade names	Symlin
AHFS/Drugs.com	Monograph
MedlinePlus	a605031
Pregnancy category	US: C (Risk not ruled out)
Routes of administration	Subcutaneous
ATC code	A10BX05 (WHO)
Legal status
Legal status	US: ℞-only
Pharmacokinetic data
Bioavailability	30 to 40%
Protein binding	~60%
Metabolism	Renal
Biological half-life	~48 minutes
Identifiers
CAS Number	151126-32-8 Y
PubChem CID	16132446
IUPHAR/BPS	7482
DrugBank	DB01278 N
ChemSpider	44241191 N
UNII	D3FM8FA78T
KEGG	D05595 N
ChEMBL	CHEMBL1201669 N
Chemical and physical data
Formula	C171H269N51O53S2
Molar mass	3951.41 g/mol
3D model (Jmol)	Interactive image
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Pramlintide (trade name Symlin) is an injectable amylin analogue drug for diabetes (both type 1 and 2), developed by Amylin Pharmaceuticals (now a wholly owned subsidiary of AstraZeneca). Pramlintide is sold as an acetate salt.

Pramlintide is an analogue of amylin, a small peptide hormone that is released into the bloodstream by the β cells of the pancreas along with insulin after a meal. Like insulin, amylin is completely absent in individuals with Type I diabetes.

By augmenting endogenous amylin, pramlintide aids in the cellular absorption and regulation of blood glucose by slowing gastric emptying, promoting satiety via hypothalamic receptors (different receptors than for GLP-1), and inhibiting inappropriate secretion of glucagon, a catabolic hormone that opposes the effects of insulin and amylin. Pramlintide also has effects in raising the acute first-phase insulin response threshold following a meal.

Both a reduction in glycated hemoglobin and weight loss have been shown in insulin-treated patients with type 2 diabetes taking pramlintide as an adjunctive therapy.

Pramlintide has been approved by the FDA, for use by type 1 and type 2 diabetic patients who use insulin. Pramlintide allows patients to use less insulin, lowers average blood sugar levels, and substantially reduces what otherwise would be a large unhealthy rise in blood sugar that occurs in diabetics right after eating.

Apart from insulin analogs, pramlintide is the only drug approved by the FDA to lower blood sugar in type 1 diabetics since insulin in the early 1920s.

Since native human amylin is highly amyloidogenic and potentially toxic, the strategy for designing pramlintide was to substitute residues from rat amylin, which is less amyloidogenic although not completely (but would presumably retain clinical activity). Proline residues are known to be structure-breaking residues, so these were directly grafted into the human sequence. Despite its enhanced stability compared to human amylin, pramlintide is still able to organize into amyloid material .