Targeting protein kinases in the malaria parasite: update of an antimalarial drug target.

abstract：:The recognition that malfunction of the microtubule (MT) associated protein tau is likely to play a defining role in the onset and/or progression of a number of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, has resulted in the initiation of drug discovery programs that target this protein. Tau is an endog...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Ballatore C,Brunden KR,Trojanowski JQ,Lee VM,Smith AB 3rd,Huryn DM

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichomoniasis, one of the most common non-viral sexually transmitted infections worldwide, is caused by the parasite Trichomonas vaginalis. The pathogen colonizes the human urogenital tract, and the infection is associated with complications such as adverse pregnancy outcomes, cervical cancer, and an increase in HIV ...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Ferla M,Tasca T

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric Oxide (NO) is widely recognized as an important messenger and effector molecule in a variety of biological systems. There is strong evidence from animal models that elevated or lowered NO levels are associated with a variety of pathological states. In nature, NO is synthesised from the amino acid l-arginine by ...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Tinker AC,Wallace AV

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：:Parkinson's disease is a motor dysfunction that has been widely studied but many of the reports on commercial drugs for the treatment of this disease have afforded some undesirable side effects that generate an extensive and unviable treatment by economic costs and due to the bioavailability of the assayed compounds. ...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Fazel Nabavi S,Uriarte E,Rastrelli L,Modak B,Sobarzo-Sánchez E

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Notwithstanding the functional role that the aggregates of some amyloidogenic proteins can play in different organisms, protein aggregation plays a pivotal role in the pathogenesis of a large number of human diseases. One of such diseases is Alzheimer's disease (AD), where the overproduction and aggregation of the β-a...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Viayna E,Sabate R,Muñoz-Torrero D

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although bioactivation is a well-documented process and the role of active metabolites in the drug discovery field has long been recognized, drug metabolites are usually ignored in virtual screening campaigns oriented to drug repositioning. The present article discusses different issues related to overlooking of the a...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Talevi A

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past decades, a tremendous rise in invasive fungal infection diseases attributed to the yeast Candida albicans in immunocompromised individuals poses a seriously challenging issue. Another concern is the emergence of multi-drug resistant pathogens to the existing medicines due to their overuse and misuse. It ...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Tratrat C

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rexinoids are selective ligands for the nuclear receptors known as RXRs. They do not bind to the receptors for all-trans-retinoic acid (RARs). Many new rexinoids have been synthesized and then assayed for their ability to suppress proliferation of cancer cells, to inhibit activation of inflammatory cells of the tumor ...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Liby KT,Sporn MB

更新日期：2016-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyridine and pyridine-fused ring systems are ubiquitous in medicinal research and demonstrate such diverse pharmacological benefits as anticonvulsant therapies, treatment for fungal and bacterial infections as well as chemotherapy agents. For example, imidazo[1,2-a]pyridines have exhibited a broad range of activity as...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Kishbaugh TL

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Target-Related Affinity Profiling (TRAP) is a computational drug discovery technology that is based on 'affinity fingerprints', which are molecular descriptors derived from the protein binding preferences of small molecules. The underlying concepts of TRAP are reviewed. Affinity fingerprints are compared to molecular ...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Beroza P,Damodaran K,Lum RT

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The impact of fungal infections on human health has increased considerably within a past few decades. Although drugs with antifungal properties are available, but they are less effective and are associated with side effects. OBJECTIVE AND METHOD:To screen the bacterial isolates from Sesamum indicum and to i...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Chaudhary R,Balhara M,Jangir D,Dangi M,Dangi M,Khatri S,Chhillar AK

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Mosquito borne diseases continue to propagate and cause millions of deaths annually. They are caused either by protozoan parasites such as Plasmodium, Toxoplasma or by flaviviruses including Dengue and Zika. Among the proteome of such parasitic organisms, proteases play essential roles in events such as ho...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Pant A,Pasupureddy R,Pande V,Seshadri S,Dixit R,Pandey KC

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychiatric diagnosis has long been perceived as more of an art than a science since its foundations lie within the observation, and the self-report of the patients themselves and objective diagnostic biomarkers are lacking. Furthermore, the diagnostic tools in use not only stray away from the conventional medical fra...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Todeva-Radneva A,Paunova R,Kandilarova S,St Stoyanov D

更新日期：2020-01-01 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：:The vesicular acetylcholine transporter (VAChT) is a glycoprotein responsible for the accumulation of acetylcholine into pre-synaptic vesicules of cholinergic neurons. Cholinergic innervation has been shown to be decreased at the earlier stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Thus, the expression of VAChT has been correl...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Giboureau N,Som IM,Boucher-Arnold A,Guilloteau D,Kassiou M

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial infections constitute an always growing health problem worldwide. The resistance to antibiotics of an increasing number of bacterial pathogens necessitates a permanent search for new molecules with different mechanisms of action. Histidine biosynthesis is an ancient pathway found in bacteria, archaebacteria,...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Monti SM,De Simone G,D'Ambrosio K

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One year after its first outbreak reported in China, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is still sweeping the World causing serious infections and claiming more fatalities. COVID-19 is caused by the novel corona virus SARS-CoV-2, which belongs to the genus Betacoronavirus (β-CoVs) which is of greatest clinic...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Sabbah DA,Hajjo R,Bardaweel SK,Zhong HA

更新日期：2021-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The adenosine A(2A) receptor is a member of the G protein-coupled receptor family and mediates multiple physiological effects of adenosine, both at the central nervous system and at peripheral tissues. Increasing evidence relates the A(2A) receptor with several pathological conditions such as neurodegenerative disorde...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Clementina M,Giuseppe S

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biofilm is a critical virulence factor associated with the strains of Candida spp. pathogens as it confers significant resistance to the pathogen against antifungal drugs. METHODS:A systematic review of the literature was undertaken by focusing on natural products, which have been reported to inhibit biofil...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Singla RK,Dubey AK

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the histamine-3 receptor (H₃R) was cloned in 1999, huge efforts have been made by most of the key players in the pharmaceutical industry as well as in smaller biotech companies to increase the knowledge on this peculiar receptor, with the ultimate goal of bringing new drugs to the market. This review gives a sur...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Plancher JM

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiotensin II (AII), Asp1-Arg2-Val3-Tyr4-Ile5-His6-Pro7-Phe8, the primary active hormone of the Renin-Angiotensin-System (RAS), is a major vasoconstrictor implicated in the cause of hypertension. To unravel the question of the biologically active conformation(s) of this flexible peptide hormone and to better understa...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Tzakos AG,Gerothanassis IP,Troganis AN

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of multi-resistant bacteria to drugs is recognized as a major cause of the increasing number of deaths in hospitals. Killing these bacteria require multiple expensive drugs that can have side effects. Metal nanoparticles may provide a new strategy to combat them. Due the antimicrobial and antiviral prope...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Oktar FN,Yetmez M,Ficai D,Ficai A,Dumitru F,Pica A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to the recent advancements in stem cell biology and engineering, scientists have been increasingly interested in creating in vitro niches for embryonic and adult stem cells, and, following induction and differentiation with the appropriate media, the production of large scale blood production. This artificially cr...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Didwania M,Didwania A,Mehta G,Basak GW,Yasukawa S,Takayama S,de Necochea-Campion R,Srivastava A,Carrier E

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome P450 17A1 (CYP17A1; also P450c17and P450sccII) is a critically important enzyme in humans that catalyzes the formation of all endogenous androgens. It is an atypical cytochrome P450 enzyme in that it catalyzes two distinct types of substrate oxidation. Through its hydroxylase activity, it catalyzes the 17α-...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Porubek D

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:(2R,3R)-2,3-Butanediol has many industrial applications, such as it is used as an antifreeze agent and low freezing point fuel. In addition, it is particularly important to provide chiral groups in drugs. In recent years, this valuable bio-based chemical has attracted increasing attention, and significant progress has...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Xie NZ,Chen XR,Wang QY,Chen D,Du QS,Zhou GP,Huang RB

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For successful drug discovery it is important to understand the fundamentals of the underlying causes and consequences of the diseases for which the drug is being developed. One such physiological process in eukaryotic cells is protein phosphorylation, which is the main post-translational modification of proteins resp...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Bhalla N,Estrela P

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a general review of currently available antimalarial drugs, these compounds are gathered according with its chemical structure and the biological targets. A great number of these new antimalarial agents are now moving actively in the pipeline from basic science to clinical studies. ...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Domínguez JN

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerical characterization of molecular structure is a first step in many computational analysis of chemical structure data. These numerical representations, termed descriptors, come in many forms, ranging from simple atom counts and invariants of the molecular graph to distribution of properties, such as charge, acro...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Guha R,Willighagen E

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anticancer drug screening can accelerate drug discovery to save the lives of cancer patients, but cancer heterogeneity makes this screening challenging. The prediction of anticancer drug sensitivity is useful for anticancer drug development and the identification of biomarkers of drug sensitivity. Deep learning, as a ...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Tan X,Yu Y,Duan K,Zhang J,Sun P,Sun H

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00