Equisetin, reutericyclin and streptolodygin as natural product lead structures for novel antibiotic libraries.

abstract：AIM:Cancer is among the leading causes of death worldwide. Medical interest has focused on macrocyclic polyamines because of their properties as antitumor agents. Results/Methodology: We have designed and synthesized a series of 1,2-diaminocyclohexane derivatives with notable in vitro antiproliferative activities again...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Morales F,Ramírez A,Morata-Tarifa C,Navarro SA,Marchal JA,Campos JM,Conejo-García A

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian carbonic anhydrases (CAs; EC 4.2.1.1) of which 16 isoforms are known, are involved in important physiological functions. Their inhibition is exploited pharmacologically for the treatment of many diseases (glaucoma, edema, epilepsy, obesity, hypoxic tumors, neuropathic pain, etc.) but the activators were less...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Supuran CT

更新日期：2018-03-01 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：BACKGROUND:GABA derivatives are important for the development of drugs for disorders of the CNS and PNS. RESULTS:We describe a simple synthesis of N-benzyl γ-phenyl-γ-aminobutyric acids, via the reductive amination of the corresponding γ-keto acids with benzylamines using ammonia borane. CONCLUSION:This procedure pro...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Ramachandran PV,Sakavuyi K,Mistry H

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since trifluoromethyl-containing compounds have found diverse applications in the fields of pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals, facile and selective synthetic methods for trifluoromethyl-substituted compounds are an essential tool for advanced medicinal chemistry. Now that diverse synthetic transformations of...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Shimizu M,Higashi M,Takeda Y,Murai M,Jiang G,Asai Y,Nakao Y,Shirakawa E,Hiyama T

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Due to the complex nature of Alzheimer's disease, there is a renewed search for pleiotropic agents. RESULTS:Purine+coumarin hybrids have been synthesized and tested for the potential treatment of Alzheimer's disease. Hybrids 6, 4a-b, 14c and 14e inhibit significantly soybean lipoxygenase, whereas derivatives 14b, ...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Kallitsakis MG,Yañez M,Soriano E,Marco-Contelles J,Hadjipavlou-Litina DJ,Litinas KE

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The use of 3D information has shown impact in numerous applications in drug design. However, it is often under-utilized and traditionally limited to specialists. We want to change that, and present an approach making 3D information and molecular modeling accessible and easy-to-use 'for the people'. METHODOLOGY/RES...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Grebner C,Norrby M,Enström J,Nilsson I,Hogner A,Henriksson J,Westin J,Faramarzi F,Werner P,Boström J

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a leading cause of hospital-acquired infections and is resistant to most antibiotics. With therapeutic options against P. aeruginosa dwindling, and the lack of new antibiotics in advanced developmental stages, strategies for preserving the effectiveness of current antibiotics are urgently req...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Lamers RP,Burrows LL

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aim: To determine the computer-predicted anticancer activity of mupirocin and to compare its activities with those determined for another polyene antibiotic, batumin. Materials & methods: Molecular docking, cytotoxicity assays, cell microscopy and cell cycle progression were studied in cancer and nontumorigenic cell l...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Reva ON,Rademan S,Visagie MH,Lebelo MT,Gwangwa MV,Klochko VV,Joubert AM,Lall N

更新日期：2019-04-01 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：:Aim: The orphan drug auranofin was recently found to exhibit antimicrobial properties. Materials & methods: We explored the efficacy of auranofin by evaluating the minimal inhibitory concentration against a collection of over 500 clinical isolates derived from multiple institutions, inclusive of drug resistant strains...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Tharmalingam N,Ribeiro NQ,da Silva DL,Naik MT,Cruz LI,Kim W,Shen S,Dos Santos JD,Ezikovich K,D'Agata EM,Mylonakis E,Fuchs BB

更新日期：2019-06-01 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：: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：:Background: Andrographolide and its benzylidene derivatives, SRJ09 and SRJ23, potentially bind oncogenic K-Ras to exert anticancer activity. Their molecular interactions with K-Ras oncoproteins that lead to effective biological activity are of major interest. Methods & results:In silico docking and molecular dynamics ...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Quah SY,Tan MS,Ho KL,Manan NA,Gorfe AA,Deb PK,Sagineedu SR,Stanslas J

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Due to the complex etiology of neurodegenerative diseases, there is growing interest in multitarget drugs. In this study we synthesized and evaluated a new series of compounds, with benzo[f]coumarin structure, as potential inhibitors of MAO-A, MAO-B, AChE and BuChE. RESULTS:In vitro studies show that most o...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Matos MJ,Janeiro P,González Franco RM,Vilar S,Tatonetti NP,Santana L,Uriarte E,Borges F,Fontenla JA,Viña D

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To synthesize the new bioactive metabolites of mosapride (R)-N-[2-hydroxy-3-(4-fluorobenzyl)amino]-propyl-5-chlorine-4-amino-2-ethoxyben-zamide (R-isomer) and (S)-N-[2-hydroxy-3-(4-fluorobenzyl)amino]-propyl-5-chlorine-4-amino-2-ethoxybenzamide (S-isomer) and evaluate their in vitro and in vivo pharmacological and ...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Yao J,Li K,Song Y,He Z,Liu Z,Zhao L,Wang S

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review summarizes the basic milestones of the research of 5-azacytosine nucleosides chronologically from their discovery and anticancer activity identification, through to subsequent unveiling of their mechanism of action based on DNA hypomethylation and tumor-suppressor gene reactivation, to the final US FDA app...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Krečmerová M,Otmar M

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The assumption in scaffold hopping is that changing the scaffold does not change the binding mode and the same structure-activity relationships (SARs) are seen for substituents decorating each scaffold. Results/methodology: We present the use of matched series analysis, an extension of matched molecular pair analys...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Hunt P,Segall M,O'Boyle N,Sayle R

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease is a multifactorial syndrome, for which effective cures are urgently needed. Seeking for enhanced therapeutic efficacy, multitarget drugs have been increasingly sought after over the last decades. They offer the attractive prospect of tackling intricate network effects, but with the benefits of a s...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Rosini M,Simoni E,Caporaso R,Minarini A

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the Hedgehog signaling pathway has been associated with cancer, it has emerged as a therapeutic target for cancer therapy. The main target among the key Hedgehog proteins is the GPCR-like Smo receptor. Therefore, some Smo antagonists that have entered clinical trials, including the US FDA-approved drugs vismodeg...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Espinosa-Bustos C,Mella J,Soto-Delgado J,Salas CO

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to the unusual structure and chemical composition of the mycobacterial cell wall, effective tuberculosis (TB) treatment is difficult, making many antibiotics ineffective and hindering the entry of drugs. With approximately 33% of infection, TB is still the second most deadly infectious disease worldwide. The reaso...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Chauhan PM,Sunduru N,Sharma M

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) is a cAMP-regulated chloride channel localized primarily at the apical surfaces of epithelial cells lining airway, gut and exocrine glands, where it is responsible for transepithelial salt and water transport. Several human diseases are associated with an ...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Zhang W,Fujii N,Naren AP

更新日期：2012-03-01 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：AIM:Cisplatin resistance in ovarian cancer remains a complex problem as tumors frequently develop resistance against drugs, a mechanism sometimes mediated by ATP-Binding Cassette transporters. Our goal was to find compounds restricting their inhibition capacity to the cisplatin efflux mediated by ABCC2 pump, among prev...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Comsa E,Nguyen KA,Loghin F,Boumendjel A,Peuchmaur M,Andrieu T,Falson P

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The finding of promising drugs represents a huge challenge in cancer therapeutics, therefore it is important to seek out novel approaches and elucidate essential cellular processes in order to identify potential drug targets. Studies on DNA repair pathway suggested that an enzyme, PARP, which plays a significant role ...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Kumar C,Rani N,Velan Lakshmi PT,Arunachalam A

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:Several hundred genes associated or linked to obesity have been described in the scientific literature. Whereas many of these genes are potential targets for the treatment of obesity and associated conditions, none of them have permitted the developement of an efficient drug therapy. As proposed by the 'thrifty genoty...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Braud S,Ciufolini M,Harosh I

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Research of the antitumor properties of biscationic compounds has received significant attention over the last few years. RESULTS:A novel family of 1,1'-([2,2'-bipyridine]-5,5'-diylbis(methylene))bis-substituted bromide (9a-k), containing two nitrogen atoms in the linker, considered as hypothetical hydrogen bond a...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Castro-Navas FF,Schiaffino-Ortega S,Carrasco-Jimenez MP,Ríos-Marco P,Marco C,Espinosa A,Gallo MA,Mariotto E,Basso G,Viola G,Entrena-Guadix A,López-Cara LC

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bromodomain and extra-terminal domain (BET) protein family plays an important role in regulating gene transcription preferentially at super-enhancer regions and has been involved with several types of cancers as a candidate. Up to now, there are 16 pan-BET inhibitors in clinical trials, however, most of them have unde...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Yang Y,Wu Z,Chen P,Zheng P,Zhang H,Zhou J

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer is a major devastating disease, and is a leading cause of death worldwide. Despite the progress in cancer treatment, cancer mortality rate remains high. Therefore, the discovery and development of improved anticancer drugs to treat cancer are needed. 4H-chromenes have strong cytotoxicity against a panel of huma...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Patil SA,Patil R,Pfeffer LM,Miller DD

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00