Overview of computational methods employed in early-stage drug discovery.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The acquirement of resistance by microorganisms to the antimicrobial arsenal is a threat to public health. A recent WHO report estimated that 1.3 million HIV-negative people and 0.38 million HIV-positive people died from TB in 2009. Various forms of cancer account for a high percentage of deaths in both wome...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Patel RV,Kumari P,Rajani DP,Pannecouque C,De Clercq E,Chikhalia KH

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the current decade, data on the post-translational hydroxylation of specific amino acid residues of some ribosomal proteins and translation factors in both eukaryotes and eubacteria have accumulated. The reaction is catalyzed by dedicated oxygenases (so-called ribosomal oxygenases), whose action is impaired und...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Graifer D,Malygin A,Karpova G

更新日期：2019-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Dysregulated metabolism is one of the hallmarks of cancer. Under normal physiological conditions, ATP is primarily generated by oxidative phosphorylation. Cancers commonly undergo a dramatic shift toward glycolysis, despite the presence of oxygen. This phenomenon is known as the Warburg effect, and requires the activi...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Woodford MR,Chen VZ,Backe SJ,Bratslavsky G,Mollapour M

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The last 10 years have seen advances in automation and high-throughput biochemistry in the drug-discovery arena. However, these advances have not led to improvements in drug-discovery success. Drug programs must find new ways to identify superior compounds. Advances in label-free assay technologies may provide advanta...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Lunn CA

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The design and synthesis of chromenopyrimidines as microtubule destabilizing agents. MATERIALS & METHODS:Novel chromenopyrimidines and chromenotriazolopyrimidines were prepared and evaluated for their cytotoxicity against MCF-7 cell line. The most potent compound was tested for its possible effect on tubulin inhib...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： El-Bakhshawangy NM,El-Nassan HB,Kassab AE,Taher AT

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of electron density-based molecular descriptors in drug research, particularly in quantitative structure--activity relationships/quantitative structure--property relationships studies, is reviewed. The exposition starts by a discussion of molecular similarity and transferability in terms of the underlying elec...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Matta CF,Arabi AA

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An accelerated rate of natural-product discovery is critical for the future of ion channel pharmacology. For the full potential of natural products to be realized, an interdisciplinary initiative is required that combines chemical ecology and ion channel physiology. A prime source of future drug leads targeted to ion ...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Teichert RW,Olivera BM

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:VEGF is an important signaling protein involved in both vasculogenesis and angiogenesis. As an essential receptor protein tyrosine kinase propagating cellular signal transduction processes, VEGFR-2 is a central target for drug discovery against tumor-associated angiogenesis. Since the autophosphorylation of VEGFR-2 re...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Huang L,Huang Z,Bai Z,Xie R,Sun L,Lin K

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nutrient-sensing receptors, including fatty acid receptors (FFA1-FFA4), Ca2+-sensing receptors and Zn2+-sensing receptors, are involved in several biological processes. These receptors are abundantly expressed in the GI tract, where they have been shown to play crucial roles in regulating GI function. This review prov...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Pongkorpsakol P,Moonwiriyakit A,Muanprasat C

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is an inherited neurodegenerative disease that results in progressive dysfunction of motor neurons of the anterior horn of the spinal cord. SMA is caused by the loss of full-length protein expression from the survival of motor neuron 1 (SMN1) gene. The disease has a unique genetic profile...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Cherry JJ,Androphy EJ

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Richard H Ebright talks to Rachel Coleby, Commissioning Editor: Ebright is at Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ, USA), where he performs research on the structure, mechanism, and regulation of bacterial transcription and on antibacterial drug discovery targeting bacterial transcription. He has received research aw...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Ebright RH

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Every organism is in contact with numerous small molecules (<1000 Da). Chemicals may cause or trigger adverse health effects, including diseases of the immune system. They may also be exploited as drugs. In this review, we look at the interaction between small molecules and the immune system. We discuss the hapten and...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Kadow S,Jux B,Chmill S,Esser C

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Camellia oleifera Abel is a member of Camellia, and its seeds are used to extract Camellia oil, which is generally used as cooking oil in the south of China. Camellia oil consists of unsaturated fatty acids, tea polyphenol, squalene, saponin, carrot element and vitamins, etc. The seed remains after oil extraction of C...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Xiao X,He L,Chen Y,Wu L,Wang L,Liu Z

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agents that interfere with tubulin function have a broad anti-tumor spectrum and they represent one of the most significant classes of anticancer agents. In the past few years, several small synthetic molecules that have an indole nucleus as a core structure have been identified as tubulin inhibitors. Among these, sev...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Patil SA,Patil R,Miller DD

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fingolimod (FTY720) is a first-in-class, orally active, sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P)-receptor modulator with a structure closely related to sphingosine. The compound was discovered by chemical modification of a natural product, myriocin. Phosphorylated form of FTY720 acts as a functional antagonist at S1P receptor ty...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Chiba K,Adachi K

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleoside analogs are extremely useful for the development of therapeutic agents to control viral diseases and cancer. Among the numerous modifications on the nucleoside skeleton, replacement of the oxygen of the furanose ring by a CH2 group resulted in increased flexibility and higher resistance to phosphorylases an...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Bessières M,Chevrier F,Roy V,Agrofoglio LA

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Hypertension is associated with development of cardiovascular disease and has become a significant health problem worldwide. Naturally-derived antihypertensive peptides have emerged as promising alternatives to synthetic drugs. MATERIALS & METHODS:This study introduces predictor of antihypertensive activity of pep...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Win TS,Schaduangrat N,Prachayasittikul V,Nantasenamat C,Shoombuatong W

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aim: With the increasing emergence of drug-resistant bacteria, the need for new antimicrobial agents has become extremely urgent. This work was to develop sulfonyl thiazoles as potential antibacterial agents. Results & methodology: Novel hybrids of sulfonyl thiazoles were developed from commercial acetanilide and acet...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Hu YY,Wang J,Li TJ,Yadav Bheemanaboina RR,Ansari MF,Cheng Y,Zhou CH

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic pain is one of the most ubiquitous diseases in the world, but treatment is difficult with conventional methods, due to undesirable side effects of treatments and unknown mechanisms of pathological pain states. The endogenous peptide, dynorphin A has long been established as a target for the treatment of pain. ...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Hall SM,Lee YS,Hruby VJ

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prodrug entrapment into nanocarriers for tumor delivery is a strategy to achieve a valid therapy with high efficiency. The prodrug contains anticancer agents conjugating with functional moieties or ligands so that the active component is released after metabolism in the body or tumor. The advantages of nanosystems for...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Lin MH,Hung CF,Hsu CY,Lin ZC,Fang JY

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Class I PI3Ks are composed of four catalytic subunit variants (p110α, p110β, p110δ and p110γ). The PI3K pathway is among the most frequently activated pathways in many diseases, and has emerged as an attractive target for drug development, in particular for the treatment of many human cancers including breast, prostat...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Jeong Y,Kwon D,Hong S

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Existing therapies for allergic asthma are far from perfect: the global prevalence of disease increases despite them and they are poorly effective in dealing with the exacerbations that account for hospitalization and asthma deaths. Commercially, there are pressures on these existing medicines too--a growing threat fr...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Robinson C,Zhang J,Newton GK,Perrior TR

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria play a key role in ATP generation, redox homeostasis and regulation of apoptosis. Due to the essential role of mitochondria in metabolism and cell survival, targeting mitochondria in cancer cells is considered as an attractive therapeutic strategy. However, metabolic flexibility in cancer cells may enable...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Cui Q,Wen S,Huang P

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains has made many of the currently available anti-tuberculosis (TB) drugs ineffective. Accordingly, there is a pressing need to identify new drug targets. Filamentous temperature-sensitive protein Z (FtsZ), a bacterial tubulin homologue, is an essenti...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Kumar K,Awasthi D,Berger WT,Tonge PJ,Slayden RA,Ojima I

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) belongs to the atypical kinase family of phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase-related kinase and function as a master regulators of the switch between catabolic and anabolic metabolism. In the last decade mTOR has emerged as a therapeutic target for various diseases such as cancer, inflam...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Roychowdhury A,Sharma R,Kumar S

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of novel pharmaceutical treatments for disorders of the cerebral vasculature is a serious unmet medical need. These vascular disorders are typified by a disruption in the delicate Rho signaling equilibrium within the blood vessel wall. In particular, Rho kinase overactivation in the smooth muscle and e...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Bond LM,Sellers JR,McKerracher L

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aim: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is known to be themajor cause of dementia among the elderly. The structural properties and binding interactions of the AD drug physostigmine (-)-phy, and its analogues (-)-hex and (-)-phe and (+)-phe, were examined, as well as their impact on the conformational changes of two different AD...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Adeniyi AA,Conradie J

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Micro-organisms express a wide range of transmembrane pumps known as multidrug efflux pumps that improve the micro-organism's ability to survive in severe environments and contribute to resistance against antibiotic and antimicrobial agents. There is significant interest in developing efflux inhibitors as an adjunct t...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Jamshidi S,Sutton JM,Rahman KM

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein kinase superfamily is one of the most important families of enzymes in molecular biology. Protein kinases typically catalyze the transfer of the γ-phosphate from ATP to a protein substrate (a highly ubiquitous cellular reaction), thereby controlling key areas of cell regulation. Deregulation of protein kin...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Elphick LM,Lee SE,Anderson AA,Child ES,Bonnac L,Gouverneur V,Mann DJ

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common primary malignant brain tumor in adults, associated with a high mortality rate and a survival of between 12 and 15 months after diagnosis. Due to current treatment limitations involving surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy with temozolamide, there is a high rate of tr...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Ortiz R,Cabeza L,Perazzoli G,Jimenez-Lopez J,García-Pinel B,Melguizo C,Prados J

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00