Comparison of the molecular dynamics and calculated binding free energies for nine FDA-approved HIV-1 PR drugs against subtype B and C-SA HIV PR.

abstract：:Smooth muscle cell (SMC) proliferation has been accepted as a common event in the pathophysiology of vascular diseases, including atherogenesis and intimal hyperplasia. Delivery of the nitric oxide synthase (NOS) substrate l-arginine, pharmacological nitric oxide (NO) donors, NO gas or overexpression of NOS proteins c...

journal_title：Chemical biology & drug design

authors： Yu H,Payne TJ,Mohanty DK

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have reported that genome-wide DNA methylation and differentially expressed genes and proteins are closely associated with drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis). However, no reports have explored such associations in para-aminosalicylic acid (PAS)-resistant M. tuberculosis H3...

journal_title：Chemical biology & drug design

authors： Li HC,Chen T,Yu L,Guo HX,Chen L,Chen YH,Chen M,Zhao J,Yan HM,Zhou L,Wang W

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study describes ligand-based pharmacophore modeling of a series of structurally diverse acyl coenzyme A cholesterol acyltransferase inhibitors. Quantitative pharmacophore models were generated using HypoGen module of Discovery Studio 2.1, whereby the best pharmacophore model possessing two hydrophobic, one...

journal_title：Chemical biology & drug design

authors： Chhabria MT,Brahmkshatriya PS,Mahajan BM,Darji UB,Shah GB

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past decade, the discovery, synthesis, and evaluation for hundreds of CD38 covalent and non-covalent inhibitors has been reported sequentially by our group and partners; however, a systematic structure-based guidance is still lacking for rational design of CD38 inhibitor. Here, we carried out a comparative anal...

journal_title：Chemical biology & drug design

authors： Zhang S,Xue X,Zhang L,Zhang L,Liu Z

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective blockade of the serotonin 5-HT(2A) receptor is a useful therapeutic approach for a number of disorders, including schizophrenia, insomnia and ischaemic heart disease. A series of aporphines were docked into a homology model of the rat 5-HT(2A) receptor using AutoDock. Selected compounds with high in silico b...

journal_title：Chemical biology & drug design

authors： Munusamy V,Yap BK,Buckle MJ,Doughty SW,Chung LY

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis is the deadliest infectious disease affecting humankind with a death toll of approximately 1.7 million people in 2016. The increasing prevalence of multidrug-resistant strains of the causative pathogen, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) which results in reduced effectiveness of the current therapies, under...

journal_title：Chemical biology & drug design

authors： Cilliers P,Seldon R,Smit FJ,Aucamp J,Jordaan A,Warner DF,N'Da DD

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we analyzed a series of rhodanine derivatives, as potential inhibitors of bacterial toxins, namely the proteases anthrax lethal factor and the botulinum neurotoxin type A. Conducting an extensive structure-activity relationship study on rhodanine derivatives, we profiled their selectivity against the tw...

journal_title：Chemical biology & drug design

authors： Johnson SL,Chen LH,Harbach R,Sabet M,Savinov A,Cotton NJ,Strongin A,Guiney D,Pellecchia M

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this research, a series of substituted 5-(5-amino-1-aryl-1H-pyrazol-4-yl)-1H-tetrazoles were synthesized and evaluated for in vitro antileishmanial activity. Among the derivatives, examined compounds 3b and 3l exhibited promising activity against promastigotes and amastigotes forms of Leishmania amazonensis. The cy...

journal_title：Chemical biology & drug design

authors： dos Santos Faiões V,Leon LL,Canto-Cavalheiro MM,Torres-Santos EC,Bernardino AM,Vegi PF,dos Santos MS

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinases are key targets for many of the pathological conditions. Inverse screening of ligands serves as an essential mode to identify potential kinase targets in modern drug discovery research. Hence, we intend to develop KinomeRun, a robust pipeline for inverse screening and kinome tree visualization through the seam...

journal_title：Chemical biology & drug design

authors： Ansar S,Vetrivel U

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ketol-acid reductoisomerase (KARI; EC 1.1.1.86) catalyzes the second common step in branched-chain amino acid biosynthesis. This enzyme is an important target for drug design. Based on the crystal structure of ketol-acid reductoisomerase/N-hydroxy-N-isopropyloxamate (IpOHA) complex, we have carried out high throughput...

journal_title：Chemical biology & drug design

authors： Liu XH,Chen PQ,Wang BL,Dong WL,Li YH,Xie XQ,Li ZM

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis is the second leading infectious killer with 9 million new cases in 2009. Extensive use of pathogen's lipid metabolism especially in utilizing the host lipids and virulence highlights the importance of exported lipid-catabolizing enzymes. Current study aims to emphasize the importance of Rv0183, an export...

journal_title：Chemical biology & drug design

authors： Saravanan P,Dubey VK,Patra S

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first example of an inhibitor of the kinase TAK1 that binds in the DFG-out conformation is disclosed. These preliminary studies used kinase-targeted screening and structure-based drug design to create a molecule with dual pharmacological inhibition of p38 and TAK1 that demonstrated significant activity in a cell-b...

journal_title：Chemical biology & drug design

authors： Kilty I,Green MP,Bell AS,Brown DG,Dodd PG,Hewson C,Hughes SJ,Phillips C,Ryckmans T,Smith RT,van Hoorn WP,Cohen P,Jones LH

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zinc containing peptidases are widely distributed in nature and have important roles in many physiological processes. M4 family comprises numerous zinc-dependent metallopeptidases that hydrolyze peptide bonds. A large number of these enzymes are implicated as virulence factors of the microorganisms that produce them a...

journal_title：Chemical biology & drug design

authors： Adekoya OA,Sylte I

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An effective one-pot synthesis of bis(dihydropyrimidinonoe)benzenes using chlorotrimethylsilane (TMSCl) through Biginelli condensation reaction of terephthalic aldehyde, 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds and (thio)urea or guanidine under microwave irradiation conditions is described. Excellent yields of the products and simple...

journal_title：Chemical biology & drug design

authors： Azizian J,Mohammadi MK,Firuzi O,Mirza B,Miri R

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyazamacrocycles are currently being studied and used in a variety of applications beyond their traditional place in supramolecular and co-ordination chemistry. This study suggests additional applications of these compounds with particular emphasis on their use as antiproliferative agents that could be potentially u...

journal_title：Chemical biology & drug design

authors： Cruz C,Cairrão E,Lourenço O,Almeida P,Verde I,Queiroz JA

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of 2-pyrimidinyl-piperazinyl-alkyl derivatives of 1H-imidazo[2,1-f]purine-2,4(3H,8H)-dione has been synthesized in an attempt to discover a new class of psychotropic agents. Compounds were evaluated for their in vitro affinity for serotonin 5-HT1A , 5-HT7 , and phosphodiesterases PDE4 and PDE10. The most pote...

journal_title：Chemical biology & drug design

authors： Zagórska A,Partyka A,Bucki A,Kołaczkowski M,Jastrzębska-Więsek M,Czopek A,Siwek A,Głuch-Lutwin M,Bednarski M,Bajda M,Jończyk J,Piska K,Koczurkiewicz P,Wesołowska A,Pawłowski M

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome is a chronic bladder disorder with epithelial thinning or ulceration, pain, urinary frequency and urgency, for which there is no reliably effective therapy. We previously reported that interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome bladder epithelial cells make a glycopep...

journal_title：Chemical biology & drug design

authors： Keay S,Kaczmarek P,Zhang CO,Koch K,Szekely Z,Barchi JJ Jr,Michejda C

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cholesteryl-functionalized derivative of activity dependent neurotrophic factor-9 peptide (a nine amino acid core peptide of activity-dependent neurotrophic factor, acting against Alzheimer's disease) was synthesized aiming at the improvement of its bioavailability. Therefore, its uptake was comparatively investigat...

journal_title：Chemical biology & drug design

authors： Katsari E,Zikos C,Tziveleka LA,Paravatou-Petsotas M,Paleos CM

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel series of quinolone imidazoles as new type of antimicrobial agents were synthesized. Most compounds exhibited good bioactivities especially against MRSA even superior to reference drugs. They induced bacterial resistance more slowly than clinical drugs and gave low cytotoxicity to human cells. The pKa values o...

journal_title：Chemical biology & drug design

authors： Zhang L,Kumar KV,Rasheed S,Geng RX,Zhou CH

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthesis of new series of 1,2,4-triazole with 1,2,3-triazole and piperidine ring using ZrOCl(2) ·8H(2) O as a catalyst in ethanol has been described. The yields obtained are in the range of 80-85%. All the synthesized compounds (3a-3o) are novel and were evaluated for their in vitro antifungal activities using standa...

journal_title：Chemical biology & drug design

authors： Sangshetti JN,Lokwani DK,Sarkate AP,Shinde DB

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developing selective enzyme inhibitors allows for the expansion of molecular toolboxes to investigate functions and activities of target enzymes. The histone acetyltransferase 1 (HAT1) is among the first histone acetyltransferase (HAT) enzymes that were discovered in the mid-1990s; however, it remains one of the poorl...

journal_title：Chemical biology & drug design

authors： Ngo L,Brown T,Zheng YG

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bioassay-guided fractionation of Terminalia bentzoe L. leaves methanol extract identified the known triterpene oleanolic acid (1) as its major breast cancer cell migration inhibitor. Further chemical optimization afforded five new (9-12 and 15) and seven known (4-8, 13, and 14) semisynthetic analogues. All compounds w...

journal_title：Chemical biology & drug design

authors： Elsayed HE,Akl MR,Ebrahim HY,Sallam AA,Haggag EG,Kamal AM,El Sayed KA

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-secosteroidal ligands are well-known vitamin D receptor (VDR) agonists. In this study, we described a combined QM/MM to define the protein-ligand interaction energy a strong positive correlation in both QM-MM interaction energy and binding free energy against the biological activity. The molecular dynamics simulat...

journal_title：Chemical biology & drug design

authors： Selvaraman N,Selvam SK,Muthusamy K

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One pharmacophore model and three quantitative structure-activity relationship models were developed on a series of benzimidazole and imidazole inhibitors of histone deacetylase 2. The goodness of hit score value of the best pharmacophore model was 0.756, which indicated that it is reliable to be used for virtual scre...

journal_title：Chemical biology & drug design

authors： Xiang Y,Hou Z,Zhang Z

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumor suppressor gene, SMAD4, is mutated in approximately 30% of colon cancers. To identify compounds with enhanced potency on cells with a SMAD4-negative context, we combined genomic and cheminformatic analyses of publicly available data relating to the colon cancer cell lines within the NCI60 panel. Two groups o...

journal_title：Chemical biology & drug design

authors： Kaiser C,Meurice N,Gonzales IM,Arora S,Beaudry C,Bisanz KM,Robeson AC,Petit J,Azorsa DO

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Artemisinin is a naturally occurring antimalarial agent which has shown potent anticancer activity. In this work, new artemisinin derivatives with the piperazine group were synthesized. The cytotoxic activities of derivatives 5a-5d were evaluated by MTT assay against ten cell lines. The results showed that 5a-5d were ...

journal_title：Chemical biology & drug design

authors： Sun Q,Wang J,Li Y,Zhuang J,Zhang Q,Sun X,Sun D

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homocamptothecin is emerging as an important topoisomerase I inhibitor originating in natural product camptothecin. We report the modifications and SAR of homocamptothecin on position C10 to develop potent topoisomerase I inhibitors for anticancer drug discovery. Based on click chemistry, twenty-one 1,2,3-triazole-sub...

journal_title：Chemical biology & drug design

authors： Xu X,Wu Y,Liu W,Sheng C,Yao J,Dong G,Fang K,Li J,Yu Z,Min X,Zhang H,Miao Z,Zhang W

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major obstacle in drug delivery is the inability to effectively deliver drugs to their intended biological target without deleterious side-effects. Delivery vehicles such as liposomes can minimize toxic side-effects by shielding the drug from reaction with unintended targets while in systemic circulation. Liposomes ...

journal_title：Chemical biology & drug design

authors： Khan DR,Rezler EM,Lauer-Fields J,Fields GB

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of isozyme-selective carbonic anhydrase inhibitors is currently still a great challenge. In the present study, protein-ligand complex structures were obtained by AutoDock Vina with SBR ((R)-N-(3-indol-1-yl-2-methyl-propyl)-4-sulfamoyl-benzamide) as the only inhibitor docked into the binding pockets of ...

journal_title：Chemical biology & drug design

authors： Xiang F,Xiang J,Fang Y,Zhang M,Li M

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tubulin inhibition represents an established target in the field of anticancer research, and over the last 20 years, an intensive search for new antimicrotubule agents has occurred. Indeed, in silico models have been presented that might aid the discovery of novel agents. Among these, a 7-point pharmacophore model has...

journal_title：Chemical biology & drug design

authors： Massarotti A,Theeramunkong S,Mesenzani O,Caldarelli A,Genazzani AA,Tron GC

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00