NMR Structures and Interactions of Antimicrobial Peptides with Lipopolysaccharide: Connecting Structures to Functions.

abstract：: ...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Scotti MT,Muratov EN,González-Díaz H

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are currently (July, 2002) six protease inhibitors approved for the treatment of HIV infection, each of which can be classified as peptidomimetic in structure. These agents, when used in combination with other antiretroviral agents, produce a sustained decrease in viral load, often to levels below the limits of ...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Randolph JT,DeGoey DA

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biomarkers in the clinical oncology field can have tremendous therapeutic impact especially if the marker is detected before clinical symptoms. This impact can be extended to the evaluation of clinical oncology treatments allowing evaluation of potential compounds to determine their efficacy in the disease treatment. ...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Belkowski SM,Polkovitch D,D'Andrea MR

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of small molecule melanin concentrating hormone receptor (MHCr1) antagonists as novel therapeutic agents has been widely pursued across the pharmaceutical industry. While multiple chemotypes of small molecule MCHr1 antagonists have been identified and shown to induce weight loss in rodent models of obesi...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Judd AS,Souers AJ,Kym PR

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:The dopamine transporter (DAT) is a target for the development of pharmacotherapies for a number of central disorders including Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, Tourette's syndrome, Lesch-Nyhan disease, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), obesity, depression, and stimulant abuse as...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Runyon SP,Carroll FI

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacophore modeling in modern drug research has been applied for both bioactivity profiling and early stage of risk assessment of potential side effects and toxicity due to interactions of drug candidates with antitargets namely P-glycoprotein, hERG, cytochrome P450 and pregnane X-receptor. In this article, an ...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Thai KM,Ngo TD,Tran TD,Le MT

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorine-18 ((18)F, beta(+); 96.7%, T(1/2)=109.8 min) is of considerable importance for developing positron emission tomography (PET) ligands for imaging receptor, enzyme, gene expression etc. in brain, tumor, myocardium and other regions or organs due to its optimal decay characteristics. To synthesize (18)F-labeled ...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Zhang MR,Suzuki K

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variable selection is a procedure used to select the most important features to obtain as much information as possible from a reduced amount of features. The selection stage is crucial. The subsequent design of a quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) model (regression or discriminant) would lead to poor ...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： González MP,Terán C,Saíz-Urra L,Teijeira M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post translational modification (PTM) is one of the critical levels in regulation of gene expression that determines the fate of proteins after translation in eukaryotic cells. Since the detection of PTM sites in proteins is useful for diagnosis and prevention of diseases, numerous web-tool predictors are introduced t...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Mohabatkar H,Rabiei P,Alamdaran M

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The atomic determination of the acetylcholine binding protein (AChBP), a molluscan cholinergic protein, homologous to the amino-terminal extracellular domain of nicotinic receptors (nAChRs), offers opportunities for the modeling of the acetylcholine binding site and its ligands. Recently, we constructed three-dimensio...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Grutter T,Le Novère N,Changeux JP

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The replication cycle of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is divided into an early and a late phase. Most of the steps of the cycle have been targeted in antiviral therapy, although the drugs currently available for clinical use are only effective against two replication enzymes of the virus, either against the reve...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Tözsér J

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over activation of the NMDA receptor complex has been implicated in a number of neurological conditions. The use of NMDA antagonists as therapeutic agents has been limited by serious cognitive and motor side effects. Significant efforts have been reported in the development of NR2B subtype-selective antagonists, which...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Layton ME,Kelly MJ 3rd,Rodzinak KJ

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic syndrome (MS) is a modern medical condition characterized by central obesity, hyperglycaemia, hypercholesterolemia and hypertension. The beneficial effects of mushrooms in lowering the symptoms of MS were known from both traditional and conventional medicine. Edible mushrooms, their extracts, polysaccharide ...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Kundaković T,Kolundžić M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dipeptidyl peptidase-IV (DPP-IV) (EC 3.4.14.5) is а member of the broad class of hydrolytic enzymes which is responsible for degradation of the incretin peptide hormones regulating blood glucose levels. In this article we review the literature on natural and synthetic DPP-IV inhibitors, focusing their chemical structu...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Smelcerovic A,Miljkovic F,Kolarevic A,Lazarevic J,Djordjevic A,Kocic G,Anderluh M

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:L-DOPA is a di-hydroxy-phenyl, catecholamine precursor, amino acid, initially considered as an inert compound and now the key stone for the treatment of Parkinson's disease (PD) and some hereditary dystonias. L-DOPA, when administered to mammals, is rapidly metabolized to dopamine and 3-OM-DOPA, and its half-life in p...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Mena MA,Casarejos MJ,Solano RM,de Yébenes JG

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes mellitus type 2 (DMT2) is a metabolic disease characterized by a chronic increase in glycemia that promotes several long-term complications and high mortality. Some enzymes involved in glycaemic control, such as α -(1,4)-glucosidase, have now been established as novel pharmacological targets. Coumarins have s...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Figueroa-Benavides C,Matos MJ,Peñaloza-Amion M,Veas R,Valenzuela-Barra G,Zapata G,Delogu G,Uriarte E,Santana L,Olea-Azar C,Delporte C

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transition metal complexes with terpyridine ligands have attracted a widespread interest with respect to biomedical applications: [(tpy)PtCl]Cl and [(tpy)RuCl(3)] are potent anti-tumor agents with activities comparable to those of cisplatin and carboplatin. The Ru(II) complexes feature a high potential as reactive pro...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Winter A,Gottschaldt M,Newkome GR,Schubert US

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homologation is a concept introduced by Gerhard in 1853 to describe a homologous series in organic chemistry. Since then, the concept has been adapted and used in medicinal chemistry as one of the most important strategies for molecular modification. The homologation types, their influence on physico-chemical properti...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Lima LM,Alves MA,do Amaral DN

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

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journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Liu W,Wang X,Zhu H,Duan Y

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sol-gel process provides a robust and versatile technology for the immobilization of biologicals. A wide range of inorganic, composites and hybrid materials can be prepared to encapsulate molecular drugs, proteins, antibodies/antigens, enzymes, nucleic acids, prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells into bulk gels, partic...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Wang X,Ahmed NB,Alvarez GS,Tuttolomondo MV,Hélary C,Desimone MF,Coradin T

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Compared with the increasing and widespread bacterial resistance to clinical medicines and the urgent need for cures of intractable diseases, there is a dramatic decline in the numbers of drugs reaching the market or clinical trials. Accordingly, it has become imperative to discover more rational and efficient strateg...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Wang T,Wu MB,Zhang RH,Chen ZJ,Hua C,Lin JP,Yang LR

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein kinases are one of the most targeted protein families in current drug discovery pipelines. They are implicated in many oncological, inflammatory, CNS-related and other clinical indications. Virtual screening is a computational technique with a diverse set of available tools that has been shown many times to pr...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Bajusz D,Ferenczy GG,Keseru GM

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conventional way of characterizing a disease consists of correlating clinical symptoms with pathological findings. Although this approach for many years has assisted clinicians in establishing syndromic patterns for pathophenotypes, it has major limitations as it does not consider preclinical disease states and is...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Rai S,Raj U,Varadwaj PK

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years the development of small organic molecules modulating protein-protein interactions (P-PIs) has drawn major attention in both academic and industrial research. Despite the appreciable progress being made, targeting such extensive interaction areas with comparatively small, drug-like agents has proven to...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Rechfeld F,Gruber P,Hofmann J,Kirchmair J

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic material in humans contains approximately 6 billion base pairs in the nuclear genome and 16,569 base pairs in the mitochondrial genome [1-3]. In some cases the difference between a healthy and a sick individual consists in only one nucleotide. Thus, it is evident that the pristine replication of the genome...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Brieba LG

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the major events occurring at biological interfaces is the specific recognition of bioactive ligands by their receptor proteins. The elucidation of interacting partners is an immediate entrance into the discovery of medicinal leads. The method of photoaffinity labeling enables the direct probing of target prote...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Hatanaka Y,Sadakane Y

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major strategy used in drug design is the inhibition of enzyme activity. The ability to accurately measure the concentration of the inhibitor which is required to inhibit a given biological or biochemical function by half is extremely important in ranking compounds. Since the concept of the half maximal inhibitory c...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Caldwell GW,Yan Z,Lang W,Masucci JA

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK-3) is involved in the phosphorylation and inactivation of glycogen synthase. GSK-3 inhibitors have been associated with a variety of diseases, including Alzheimer´s disease (AD), diabetes type II, neurologic disorders, and cancer. The inhibition of GSK-3β isoforms is likely to...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Francisco CS,Javarini CL,de S Barcelos I,Morais PAB,de Paula H,de S Borges W,Neto ÁC,Lacerda V

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The IkappaB kinases (IKKs) are essential components of the signaling pathway by which the NF-kappaB p50/RelA transcription factor is activated in response to pro-inflammatory stimuli such as lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and tumor necrosis factor (TNFalpha). NF-kappaB signaling results in the expression of numerous genes i...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Bamborough P,Callahan JF,Christopher JA,Kerns JK,Liddle J,Miller DD,Morse MA,Rumsey WL,Williamson R

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00