Protein / target
Sphingosine 1-phosphate receptor 3
Protein at a glance
Biological role
Sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor
Strongest disease association
Gastrointestinal disease
Therapeutic position
Established drug target
Derived from structured UniProt, Open Targets and literature data on this page.
Protein profile
Canonical identity and biological annotation from UniProt.
Function overview
Receptor for the lysosphingolipid sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P).
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Receptor for the lysosphingolipid sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P). S1P is a bioactive lysophospholipid that elicits diverse physiological effect on most types of cells and tissues. When expressed in rat HTC4 hepatoma cells, is capable of mediating S1P-induced cell proliferation and suppression of apoptosis
Subcellular location
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Gene Ontology
- Ccytoplasm
- Cplasma membrane
- Cpresynapse
- FG protein-coupled receptor activity
- Fintegrin binding
- Flipid binding
- Fsphingosine-1-phosphate receptor activity
- Padenylate cyclase-activating G protein-coupled receptor signaling pathway
- Panatomical structure morphogenesis
- PG protein-coupled receptor signaling pathway
- Pinflammatory response
- Pnegative regulation of establishment of endothelial barrier
Biological roles
What this protein does, drawn together from its UniProt function, Gene Ontology terms and Reactome pathways.
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Cell proliferation & survival
- ·positive regulation of cell population proliferation
Lipid & lipoprotein metabolism
- ·Receptor for the lysosphingolipid sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P). S1P is a bioactive lyso…
G protein-coupled signalling
- ·G protein-coupled receptor activity
- ·adenylate cyclase-activating G protein-coupled receptor signaling pathway
- ·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.
Approved medicines with mapped indications
Approved therapies targeting this protein, grouped by what they are approved to treat — the disease-first view of the medicines below. Relationships come from the canonical approved-indication graph (ChEMBL phase-4), the same source as the drug cards.
3 medicines meet Open Targets' target-level approved-medicine definition; the 1 shown here are those on this page with a canonical approved disease indication in the graph. Approved indications from ChEMBL (phase-4), via the canonical drug→disease graph.
Drugs targeting this protein
How approved and investigational drugs engage this protein — mechanism and action type, direct vs complex targeting, and how broadly each acts across other targets. A drug-first view (the section above groups the approved ones disease-first); direct binders with few recorded targets are listed first.
Sphingosine 1-phosphate receptor agonist
Indicated for Multiple Sclerosis, Multiple Sclerosis, Relapsing-Remitting
ChEMBL mechanism, action type, target identity and approved indications. Open Targets clinical status.
Translational evidence
Why this target matters therapeutically, strongest evidence first. Disease associations are gene-level (via the gene that encodes this protein) and open into the full confidence synthesis; the development universe, tractability and safety annotations are target-level, from Open Targets.
Strongest disease associations · via encoding gene S1PR3
Gene-level evidence surfaced through the gene S1PR3that encodes this protein — not a direct protein–disease relationship. Ranked by Forefront's causal-directness weighting, so genetically- and clinically-evidenced diseases lead over ones that merely share the literature.
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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 per-type scores above show the calculation.
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Drug development
5 compounds recorded · 3 approved · 2 in clinical development
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Open Targets known-drugs universe. Drug name and highest clinical stage only — the disease relationship is NOT read from this slice (it carries trial-context noise); approved indications come from the canonical graph above.
Tractability
Small molecules — Strong
Antibodies — Emerging
Protein degraders — Emerging
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Raw Open Targets tractability assessment buckets, by modality.
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. Ranked by active status, then clinical phase and recency, and spread across the targeting drugs.
ClinicalTrials.gov via the drug-target graph.
What's happening now
Recent therapeutic activity around this target — regulatory actions, clinical trials and safety signals for a drug that targets this protein, plus publications where such a drug is a genuine subject. Every item is reached indirectly through the drug, not the protein itself; incidental mentions (a paper that merely measures a drug) and press items are excluded.
- New publicationGlial Sphingosine-Mediated Epigenetic Regulation Stabilizes Synaptic Function in <i>Drosophila</i> Models of Alzheimer's Disease.
- Regulatory approval
Approval: Fingolimod Accord (EMA)
- Regulatory approval
Approval: Gilenya (EMA)
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.