Protein / target
3',5'-cyclic-AMP phosphodiesterase 4A
Protein at a glance
Biological role
3',5'-cyclic-AMP phosphodiesterase activity
Strongest disease association
psoriasis
Therapeutic maturity
Clinically validated target
Druggability
Small molecule
Clinical development
15 approved · 13 in clinical development
Derived from structured UniProt, Open Targets and literature data on this page.
Protein profile
Canonical identity and biological annotation from UniProt.
Function
Hydrolyzes the second messenger 3',5'-cyclic AMP (cAMP), which is a key regulator of many important physiological processes
Subcellular location
Domains and Gene Ontology detail (15)Hide
Domains & features
Gene Ontology
- Ccytosol
- Cextrinsic component of membrane
- Cmembrane
- Cperinuclear region of cytoplasm
- Cplasma membrane
- Cruffle membrane
- F3',5'-cyclic-AMP phosphodiesterase activity
- F3',5'-cyclic-GMP phosphodiesterase activity
- FcAMP binding
- Fmetal ion binding
- PcAMP catabolic process
- PG protein-coupled receptor signaling pathway
Biological roles
What this protein does, drawn together from its UniProt function, Gene Ontology terms and Reactome pathways.
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G protein-coupled signalling
- ·G protein-coupled receptor signaling pathway
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Concepts derived from UniProt GO Reactome — each badge above shows which sources supported that role.
Interaction neighbourhood
Proteins with the strongest functional or physical association. Node size and line weight reflect STRING confidence; hover or select a partner to inspect one association.
Functional and physical associations from STRING v12.0. Only associations with this protein are drawn — partner-to-partner links are not part of this evidence.
Drugs targeting this protein
Whether each drug engages this protein directly or through a complex, and how many other targets are recorded for it. Direct binders with few recorded targets are listed first.
Phosphodiesterase 4 inhibitor
Appears in clinical studies involving Airway obstruction, oral mucositis, Obesity, metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease
ChEMBL mechanism, action type and target identity. Open Targets clinical status and indications.
Translational evidence
Why this target matters therapeutically — disease associations, drugs in development, tractability and safety, from Open Targets.
Strongest genetic associations
Human genetic evidence — the most direct causal link between this target and a disease.
Highest-confidence therapeutic associations
Diseases where a drug acting on this target has already reached clinical development.
Highest overall evidence
Remaining associations by Open Targets' aggregated evidence score.
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Open Targets ranks 618 associations for this target and we store the top 10 by aggregated score. The long tail is largely literature co-mention and RNA-expression evidence, not evidence that this target drives those diseases.
Known drugs · 28 total
asthma · asthma · chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
psoriasis vulgaris · chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · rheumatoid arthritis
Oral ulcer · psoriasis · psoriatic arthritis
atopic eczema
Airway obstruction · oral mucositis · Obesity
dysuria · Urinary incontinence · Polyuria
Airway obstruction
atopic eczema · Eczematoid dermatitis · atopic eczema
asthma · seasonal allergic rhinitis · chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Castleman disease · Airway obstruction · amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Tractability
Safety liabilities
Clinical trials
Trials of drugs that target this protein — reached indirectly through those drugs, so a trial listed here studies the drug, not the protein.
ClinicalTrials.gov via the drug-target graph.
Forefront confidence
Our own weighting of the evidence behind each disease association. Human genetics and clinical evidence count for most; literature co-mention counts for little, because two entities sharing an abstract is not evidence that one drives the other.
The evidence agreement range shows how closely the independent evidence families agree — it is not a statistical confidence interval, and nothing here is fitted to outcome data. Derived from Open Targets evidence types under Forefront weighting; the underlying per-type scores are shown above so the calculation can be checked.
What's happening now
Recent activity around this target, drawn from one canonical event stream. Every item is reached through a drug that targets this protein, so each event is news about that drug rather than about the protein directly.
Objective event titles are shown unmodified; the event kind and significance line are derived from structured fields. Forefront AttentionEvent stream aggregating Europe PMC Regulatory filings ClinicalTrials.gov.