ACAT1/SOAT1 as a therapeutic target for Alzheimer's disease.

abstract：:Aim: Cysteine proteases are important molecular targets involved in the replication, virulence and survival of parasitic organisms, including Trypanosoma and Leishmania species. Methodology & results: Analogs of the 7-chloro-N-[3-(morpholin-4-yl)propyl]quinolin-4-amine were synthesized and their inhibitory activity ag...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Andrade MM,Martins LC,Marques GV,Silva CA,Faria G,Caldas S,Dos Santos JS,Leclercq SY,Maltarollo VG,Ferreira RS,Oliveira RB

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Confirm the use of Plectanthus spp. plants in traditional medicine, particularly as anti-inflammatory and anti-infective agents. MATERIALS & METHODS:Compounds previously isolated from Plectranthus spp. were studied for their anti-inflammatory activity using the SNAP assay and RAW 264.7 cells, by the quantification...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Andrade JM,Custódio L,Romagnoli A,Reis CP,Rodrigues MJ,Garcia C,Petruccioli E,Goletti D,Faustino C,Fimia GM,Rijo P

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes mellitus is an increasing public health problem in the world. Type 2 diabetes is the most common type of diabetes whose complications contribute to its high death rate. It seriously impacts healthcare systems and patients' quality of life. Therefore, effective measures and new treatment strategies are needed ...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Turdu G,Gao H,Jiang Y,Kabas M

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclin-dependent kinase 7 (CDK7) plays crucial roles in the regulation of cell cycle and transcription that are tightly associated with cancer development and metastasis. The recent identification of the first covalent inhibitor which possesses high specificity against CDK7 prompts intense studies on designing highly ...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Wang M,Wang T,Zhang X,Wu X,Jiang S

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) acquires non-heme iron through salicylate-derived siderophores termed mycobactins whereas heme iron is obtained through a cascade of heme uptake proteins. Three proteins are proposed to mediate Mtb heme iron uptake, a secreted heme transporter (Rv0203), and MmpL3 and MmpL11, which are ...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Owens CP,Chim N,Goulding CW

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The present study was carried out to assess a new series of triazoloquinazolines 1-40 for their antioxidant activities using 1,1-diphenyl-2-picryl hydrazyl radical scavenging, ferric reduction antioxidant power and reducing power capability assays. RESULTS:All triazoloquinazolines 1-40 exhibited antioxidant activi...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Al-Salahi R,Anouar EH,Marzouk M,Taie HA,Abuelizz HA

更新日期：2018-02-01 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：:Kinetic and thermodynamic ligand-protein binding parameters are gaining growing importance as key information to consider in drug discovery. The determination of the molecular structures, using particularly x-ray and NMR techniques, is crucial for understanding how a ligand recognizes its target in the final binding c...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Deganutti G,Moro S

更新日期：2017-04-01 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：:Filamenting temperature-sensitive mutant Z (FtsZ), an essential cell division protein in bacteria, has recently emerged as an important and exploitable antibacterial target. Cytokinesis in bacteria is regulated by the assembly dynamics of this protein, which is ubiquitously present in eubacteria. The perturbation of F...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Panda D,Bhattacharya D,Gao QH,Oza PM,Lin HY,Hawkins B,Hibbs DE,Groundwater PW

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichomonas vaginalis and Entamoeba histolytica are clinically important protozoa that affect humans. T. vaginalis produces sexually transmitted infections and E. histolytica is the causative agent of amebic dysentery. Metronidazole, a compound first used to treat T. vaginalis in 1959, is still the main drug used worl...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Moya IA,Su Z,Honek JF

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC), a critical enzyme in the regulation of fatty acid synthesis and metabolism, has emerged as an attractive target for a plethora of emerging diseases, such as diabetes mellitus, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, cancer, bacterial infections and so on. With decades of efforts in medicinal ch...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Wu X,Huang T

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthraquinones exhibit a unique anticancer activity. Since their discovery, medicinal chemists have made several structural modifications, resulting in the design and synthesis of a large number of novel anthraquinone compounds with different biological activities. In general, anthraquinone compounds have been conside...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Tian W,Wang C,Li D,Hou H

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aim: The explosion of data based technology has accelerated pattern mining. However, it is clear that quality and bias of data impacts all machine learning and modeling. Results & methodology: A technique is presented for using the distribution of first significant digits of medicinal chemistry features: logP, logS, a...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： García-Sosa AT

更新日期：2019-09-01 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：BACKGROUND:Benzimidazole derivatives are promising compounds for the treatment of parasitic infections. The structure-activity relationships of 91 benzimidazoles with activity against Trichomonas vaginalis and Giardia intestinalis were analyzed using a novel activity landscape modeling approach. RESULTS:We identified ...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Aguayo-Ortiz R,Pérez-Villanueva J,Hernández-Campos A,Castillo R,Meurice N,Medina-Franco JL

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV/AIDS remains a formidable disease with millions of individuals inflicted worldwide. Although treatment regimens have improved considerably, drug resistance brought on by viral mutation continues to erode their effectiveness. Intense research efforts are currently underway in search of new and improved therapies. T...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Ghosh AK,Anderson DD

更新日期：2011-07-01 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：: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：BACKGROUND:Cucurbit[n]urils (CB[n]; n = 5, 6, 7, 8 or 10) are a family of macrocycles made from the acid-catalyzed condensation of glycoluril and formaldehyde. RESULTS:The synthesis of CB[n] using microwave radiation has been examined and the effect of acid type, reaction time and temperature on the distribution of pr...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Wheate NJ,Patel N,Sutcliffe OB

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

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：: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：:Since their initial isolation from the marine alga Delisea pulchra, bromofuranones have been investigated as potential inhibitors of quorum sensing (QS) in various bacterial strains. QS is an important mechanism by which bacteria co-ordinate their molecular response to the environment. QS is intrinsically linked to ba...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Lyons T,Gahan CG,O'Sullivan TP

更新日期：2020-11-01 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：:An α-carbonic anhydrases (CAs, EC 4.2.1.1) was recently discovered, cloned and characterized in the genome of the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative agent of Chagas disease, a neglected but widespread tropical disease. Inhibition of this α-CAs (TcCA) with anions, sulfonamides, sulfamates, thiols and h...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Supuran CT

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：: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：AIM:Antibiotic resistance has become a major health problem. The σ(70):core interface of bacterial RNA polymerase is a promising drug target. Recently, the coiled-coil and lid-rudder-system of the β' subunit has been identified as an inhibition hot spot. Materials & methods & Results: By using surface plasmon resonance...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Hüsecken K,Hinsberger S,Elgaher WA,Haupenthal J,Hartmann RW

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many natural products that consist of quinoline core are found to be bioactive and the versatility of quinoline and its derivatives have attracted great attention in the field of drug development. As a result, in recent years, many green and sustainable synthetic approaches for the synthesis of structurally diverse qu...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Chung PY,Bian ZX,Pun HY,Chan D,Chan AS,Chui CH,Tang JC,Lam KH

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Traditional and current opioid pharmacology is fundamentally based on interactions between opioid receptors and compounds isolated from natural sources. Adverse effects associated with opioids have led to the search for compounds with diminished side effects. DISCUSSION:Recent discoveries of non-nitrogenous...

journal_title：Future medicinal chemistry

authors： Lovell KM,Simpson DS,Cunningham CW,Prisinzano TE

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00