Strategies for the discovery and advancement of novel cationic antimicrobial peptides.

abstract：:A modified version of the CORAL software (http://www.insilico.eu/coral) allows building up the classification model for the case of the Yes/No data on the anti-sarcoma activity of organic compounds. Three random splits into the sub-training, calibration, and test sets of the data for 3017 compounds were examined. The ...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Toropov AA,Toropova AP,Benfenati E,Gini G,Leszczynska D,Leszczynski J

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene therapy has a strong potential in neuroscience by suppressing or replacing abnormalities in genetic materials. The employment of nano-gene carrier for neurological disorders is comparatively young and restricted since the aim to effectively deliver therapeutic agents into the central nervous system (CNS) commonly...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Khanh TMT,Wei D,Tran PHL,Tran TTD

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An intensive research effort during the last 25 years has generated an impressive number of alkaloids isolated from marine ascidians, which remain unique among marine invertebrates in that they overwhelmingly produce this kind of metabolites. The present review is focused on some major groups of ascidians' bioactive a...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Menna M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thematic Analysis™ is a chemogenomic tool which has been developed and used to aid the process of GPCR drug discovery. This review covers the scientific rationale behind the development of this tool and provides examples of the successful application of the chemogenomic method in both hit finding and hit to lead stage...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Crossley R,Macritchie JA,Slater MJ

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammation is a complex phenomenon necessary in human defense mechanisms but also involved in the development of some human diseases. The discovery of cyclooxygenase-2 (COX- 2) improved the pharmacology of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) giving a clear mechanism for prostaglandin regulation in vivo and ...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Rayar AM,Lagarde N,Ferroud C,Zagury JF,Montes M,Sylla-Iyarreta Veitia M

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemical versatility of the indole nucleus still inspires the pharmaceutical research to develop innovative suitable indole based drugs. The present work is an overview of the use and application of indole molecule based derivatives, as possible treatment in the main Oxidative Stress related diseases, such as card...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Aiello F,Valacchi G

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although water molecules are small and only consist of two different atom types, they play various roles in cellular systems. This review discusses their influence on the binding process between biomacromolecular targets and small molecule ligands and how this influence can be modeled in computational drug design appr...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： de Beer SB,Vermeulen NP,Oostenbrink C

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Farnesol is an acyclic sesquiterpene alcohol, endogenously synthesized via the ergosterol pathway. It is a quorum sensing molecule (QSM) that was first discovered in C. albicans, and is involved in the inhibition of hyphae formation. METHODS:This review focuses on the comprehensive details of occurrence, ch...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Gupta P,Sharma M,Arora N,Pruthi V,Poluri KM

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Zika is a worldwide pandemic dreadful viral transmission through Aedes mosquito vector. It significantly causes fever, joint pain or rash, and conjunctivitis. Pregnant mothers suffering from Zika viral infection may have fetal abnormalities due to severe neurological problems, characterized by microcephaly a...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Nandi S,Kaur R,Kumar M,Sharma A,Naaz A,Mandal SC

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our understanding of glutamatergic transmission in the central nervous system has been greatly expanded with the discovery and investigation of the metabotropic glutamate receptor family. Complementing the ionotropic glutamate-gated ion channels, these G-protein coupled receptors play critical roles in neuronal and gl...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Niswender CM,Jones CK,Conn PJ

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein-RNA interactions play crucial roles in numerous biological processes. However, detecting the interactions and binding sites between protein and RNA by traditional experiments is still time consuming and labor costing. Thus, it is of importance to develop bioinformatics methods for predicting protein-RNA intera...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Liu ZP,Chen L

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Structure-based drug design is a wide area of identification of selective inhibitors of a target of interest. From the time of the availability of three dimensional structure of the drug targets, mostly the proteins, many computational methods had emerged to address the challenges associated with drug desi...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Velmurugan D,Pachaiappan R,Ramakrishnan C

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most drug discovery programs today originate by selection of 'hit' molecules resulting from assays against large compound screening libraries. The chemical space in which these hits reside has implications for its biological activity in vivo and likelihood of progression to a drug candidate. We have created a database...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Zuegg J,Cooper MA

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Human Genome Project and the explosion of high-throughput data have transformed the areas of molecular and personalized medicine, which are producing a wide range of studies and experimental results and providing new insights for developing medical applications. Research in many interdisciplinary fields is resulti...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： de la Iglesia D,García-Remesal M,de la Calle G,Kulikowski C,Sanz F,Maojo V

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chagas disease and African sleeping sickness are trypanosomal infections that represent important public health problems in Latin America and Africa, respectively. The restriction of these diseases to the poorer parts of the world has meant that they have been largely neglected and limited progress has been made in th...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Wilkinson SR,Bot C,Kelly JM,Hall BS

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review reports the recent advances in chlorotoxin (CTX)-targeted nanoparticles (NPs) for imaging and therapy of glioma. CTX has been identified as a targeting ligand to specifically bind to glioma. Through different conjugation approaches, CTX can be conjugated onto iron oxide NPs, quantum dots, and rare-earth up...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Zhao L,Shi X,Zhao J

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human tuberculosis (TB) is primarily caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) that inhabits inside and amidst immune cells of the host with adapted physiology to regulate interdependent cellular functions with intact pathogenic potential. The complexity of this disease is attributed to various factors such as th...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Borah P,Deb PK,Venugopala KN,Al-Shar'i NA,Singh V,Deka S,Srivastava A,Tiwari V,Mailavaram RP

更新日期：2020-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The invading microbial pathogens are controlled by the rapid and effective innate immune responses sequentially formation of the long-lasting adaptive memories. Toll-like receptors (TLRs) play a vital role in innate and adaptive immune response by function as a bridge to modulate the immune response. Further, genetic ...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Xu Q,Zhu G,Li J,Cheng K

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrating physicochemical, drug metabolism, pharmacokinetics, ADME, and toxicity assays into drug discovery in order to reduce the attrition rates in clinical development is reviewed. The review is organized around three main decision points used in discovery including hit generation, lead optimization and final can...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Caldwell GW,Yan Z,Tang W,Dasgupta M,Hasting B

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:G protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) are membrane proteins coupled with G proteins through which they transmit signals to the cytoplasm. Approximately 30% of pharmaceuticals target these receptors, even though crystal structures were scarce at the time. Furthermore, an additional 15% of GPCRs have yet to be exploited f...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Kontoyianni M

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:(18)F-labeled amino acids are an important class of imaging agents for positron emission tomography (PET) that target the increased rates of amino acid transport by many tumor cells. This class of tracers is structurally diverse, and the biological and imaging properties of a given (18)F-labeled amino acid depends lar...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Huang C,McConathy J

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seizures are one of the most common neurological disorders in clinical medicine. Triggering mechanisms by which seizures form remain unclear, but are related to a rapid change in ionic composition, including an increase of intracellular potassium concentration and pH shifts within the brain. pH buffering of extra- and...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Thiry A,Dogné JM,Supuran CT,Masereel B

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P) evokes a plethora of physiological responses by stimulating members of a G protein-coupled receptor family, known as S1P receptors. Currently five different mammalian S1P receptor subtypes, S1P₁₋₅, each with a different cellular expression pattern, were identified. The S1P₁ receptor in pa...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Bolli MH,Lescop C,Nayler O

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac fibrosis is associated with most cardiac diseases. Fibrosis is an accumulation of excessive extracellular matrix proteins (ECM) synthesized by cardiac fibroblasts and myofibroblasts. Fibroblasts are the most prevalent cell type in the heart, comprising 75% of cardiac cells. Myofibroblasts are hardly present in...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Yue Z,Zhang Y,Xie J,Jiang J,Yue L

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine ion channel receptors (nAChRs) exist as several subtypes and are involved in a variety of functions and disorders of the central nervous system (CNS), such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. The lack of reliable information on the 3D structure of nAChRs prompted us to focus effor...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Nicolotti O,Altomare C,Pellegrini-Calace M,Carotti A

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of vaccines has led to tremendous decreases in disease burdens across the world. Many challenges remain in expanding vaccine coverage to new pathogens, however, a struggle further hampered by a lack of understanding into many of the fundamental processes through which vaccines elicit robust immunity. In this r...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Platt A,Wetzler L

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthma, a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways, is a significant burden on our healthcare system. There is high unmet need for treatments directed towards the underlying causes of the disease. The cell surface integrin VLA-4 (very late antigen-4; alpha4beta1; CD49d/CD29) plays an important role in the trafficki...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Singh J,Adams S,Carter MB,Cuervo H,Lee WC,Lobb RR,Pepinsky RB,Petter R,Scott D

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are a class of peptides found across a wide array of organisms that play key roles in host defense. AMPs induce selective death in target cells and orchestrate specific or nonspecific immune responses. Many AMPs exhibit native anticancer activity in addition to antibacterial activity, and...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Rubin SJS,Qvit N

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria, caused by protozoa of the genus Plasmodium, remains one of the most dreadful infectious diseases worldwide killing more than 1 million people per year. The emergence of multidrug-resistant parasites highly demands a steadfast and continuous search not only for new targets but also for new anti-infectives addr...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Wegscheid-Gerlach C,Gerber HD,Diederich WE

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drugs with poor lipid and water solubility are some of the most challenging to formulate in nanocarriers, typically resulting in low encapsulation efficiencies and uncontrolled release profiles. PEGylated nanocapsules (PEG-NC) are known for their amenability to diverse modifications that allow the formation of domains...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Hervella P,Alonso-Sande M,Ledo F,Lucero ML,Alonso MJ,Garcia-Fuentes M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00