L-Histidinol Dehydrogenase as a New Target for Old Diseases.

abstract：:Rhodiola as one of traditional medicines has been used for clinical treatments due to its strong antioxidant properties. Phytochemical analysis revealed the presence of flavonoids, phenylpropanoids, phenylethanol/benzyl alcohol derivatives, cyanogenic glycosides and terpenoids. The bioactive compounds had been demonst...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Li Y,Wu J,Shi R,Li N,Xu Z,Sun M

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Fabaceae are a rich source of protease inhibitors. METHODS:A proteinaceous protease inhibitor of 25 KDa designated as Macrotyloma uniflorum protease inhibitor (MUPI) was isolated from seeds of Macrotyloma uniflorum and purified to homogeneity by ammonium sulphate precipitation, DEAE Sepharose column and C...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Mohan M,Elyas KK

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salbutamol forms an important and widely administered β2 agonist prescribed in the symptomatic treatment of bronchial asthma. Unfortunately, a subset of patients show refractoriness to it owing to ADRB2 gene variant (rs 1800888). The variant substitutes Thr to Ile at the position 164 in the β2 adrenergic receptor lead...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Bandaru S,Tiwari G,Akka J,Marri VK,Alvala M,Gutlapalli VR,Nayarisseri A,Mundluru HP

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a multifactorial complex disease. The pathogenesis of AD is very complicated, and involves the β-amyloid (Aβ) cascade, tau hyperphosphorylation, neuroinflammation, oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction, reduced levels of neurotrophic factors, and damage and loss of synapses as well as...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Li L,Zhang L,Yang CC

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nowadays, malaria is still one of the most important and lethal diseases worldwide, causing 445,000 deaths in a year. Due to the actual treatment resistance, there is an emergency to find new drugs. OBJECTIVE:The aim of this work was to find potential inhibitors of phosphoglycerate mutase 1 from P. falcipar...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Ríos-Soto L,Avitia-Domínguez C,Sierra-Campos E,Valdez-Solana M,Cisneros-Martínez J,Palacio-Gastellum MG,Téllez-Valencia A

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The problem in this work is the computational characterization of cyclodextrins, crown ethers and hyaluronan (HA) as hosts of inclusion complexes for nanosized drug delivery vehicles in pharmaceutical formulations. The difficulty is addressed through a computational study of some thermodynamic, geometric and topologic...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Torrens F,Castellano G

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of new DNA sequencing technologies has allowed an exponential growth of genomic and transcriptomic data that ultimately yielded important results to several areas such as medicine and biology. This continuous technological progress presents several advantages and caveats that have to be considered for ea...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Sanchez-Flores A,Abreu-Goodger C

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical genomics combines chemistry with molecular biology as a means of exploring the function of unknown proteins or identifying the proteins responsible for a particular phenotype induced by a small cell-permeable bioactive molecule. Chemical genomics therefore has the potential to identify and validate therapeuti...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Olsen LC,Færgeman NJ

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transient Receptor Potential (TRP) cation channels participate in several processes of vital importance in cell and organism physiology, and have been demonstrated to participate in the detection of sensory stimuli. The thermo TRP's reviewed: TRPV1 (vanilloid 1), TRPM8 (melastatin 8) and TRPA1 (ankyrin-like 1) are kno...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Nieto-Posadas A,Jara-Oseguera A,Rosenbaum T

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organic nitrates, such as nitroglycerin, have been used in clinical practice for more than one century for the treatment of angina, even before the identification of Nitric Oxide (NO) as the so-called Endothelium Derived Relaxing Factor (EDRF). Recently, multiple functions of this molecule in biology and pathophysiolo...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Bolla M,Almirante N,Benedini F

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：INTRODUCTION:Structure-based drug design is a wide area of identification of selective inhibitors of a target of interest. From the time of the availability of three dimensional structure of the drug targets, mostly the proteins, many computational methods had emerged to address the challenges associated with drug desi...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Velmurugan D,Pachaiappan R,Ramakrishnan C

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Olefin metathesis has rapidly established itself as an essential tool in the synthetic chemist's armoury. The ease of operation and functional group tolerance that is obtained with the modern generation of catalysts makes the use of metathesis an extremely attractive option when preparing medicinally interesting molec...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Martin WH,Blechert S

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural quinoline alkaloid camptothecin (CPT) is used for the treatment of colon, lung, breast and ovarian cancers still facing challenges due to low solubility in aqueous and biological fluids. Its lactone form easily converts into a toxic carboxylic form at slightly basic pH, typical in blood and tissue fluid has ra...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Mishra D,Yadav V,Khare P,Jyotshna,Das MR,Meena A,Shanker K

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) establish the first line of host defense mechanism against invading microorganisms including bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites. In recent years, emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance bacterial pathogens have dawn considerable interest in investigations of AMPs. The ability of...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Bhattacharjya S

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ischemic heart disease and cerebrovascular disease are the leading causes of death in the world. Surprisingly, these diseases are treated by relatively antiquated drugs. However, due to our improved understanding of the underlying pathology of these diseases, and a number of technological advances in tools for drug di...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Leadley RJ Jr

更新日期：2001-06-01 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：:Millions of deaths each year are attributed to malaria worldwide. Transmitted through the bite of an Anopheles mosquito, infection and subsequent death from the Plasmodium species, most notably P. falciparum, can readily spread through a susceptible population. A malaria vaccine does not exist and resistance to virtua...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Zhang VM,Chavchich M,Waters NC

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The H(3) histamine receptor is expressed in many brain regions, including those involved in sleep/wake regulation and cognitive functions. Inhibition of the H(3) receptor leads to increased release of multiple neurotransmitters in these regions, making this receptor an ideal target for the potential enhancement of aro...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Raddatz R,Tao M,Hudkins RL

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thiosemicarbazones (TSCNs) constitute a broad family of compounds (R1R2C=N-NH-C(S)- NR3R4), particularly attractive because many of them display some biological activity against a wide range of microorganisms and cancer cells. Their activity can be related to their electronic and structural properties, which offer a r...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Matesanz AI,Herrero JM,Quiroga AG

更新日期：2021-01-01 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：:At present, a limited number of strategies exist for diagnostic imaging of patients with bacterial infection. While radiolabeled probes and white blood cells provide robust solutions to detect bacteria in humans, they also give false positives in cases of sterile inflammation. With the onset of bacterial drug resistan...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Sasser TA,Van Avermaete AE,White A,Chapman S,Johnson JR,Van Avermaete T,Gammon ST,Leevy WM

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aptamers- short nucleic acid or peptide ligands- attracted considerable attention across various disciplines as target specific therapeutic, delivery vehicle and diagnostic tools. The applicability of aptamers - often termed as 'chemical antibodies' - continues to grow and possess certain edge over the antibody counte...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Veedu RN

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multi-drug resistant bacteria are appearing at an alarming rate and impose significant burdens on healthcare systems worldwide. Cationic peptides have shown great promise as broad spectrum antimicrobial agents with a demonstrated ability to kill resistant bacteria, however, issues such as protease susceptibility and t...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Hadley EB,Hancock RE

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：:During development, Glu receptors and N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors in particular initiate a cascade of signal transduction events and gene expression changes primarily involving Ca(2+) ion-mediated signaling induced by activation of either Ca(2+) ion-permeable receptor channels or voltage-sensitive Ca(2+) ion channe...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Balazs R

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomeres are structurally nucleoprotein complexes at termini of linear chromosomes and essential to chromosome stability/integrity. In normal human cells, telomere length erodes progressively with each round of cell divisions, which serves as an important barrier to uncontrolled proliferation and malignant transforma...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Yuan X,Dai M,Xu D

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first proteolytic step in the processing of amyloid precursor protein (APP) to amyloid-beta (Abeta) in the brain is performed by beta-site APP cleaving enzyme (BACE1). This enzyme is a membrane bound aspartic protease with high homology of the catalytic domain to renin and pepsin and of yet unknown physiologic fun...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Roggo S

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cathepsin S has been of increasing interest as a target of medicinal chemistry efforts given its role in modulating antigen-presentation by major histocompatibility class II (MHC II) molecules as well as its involvement in extracellular proteolytic activities. Inhibition of the cathepsin S enzyme reduces degradation o...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Wiener JJ,Sun S,Thurmond RL

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review highlights the biological importance of many polysubstituted nitro-prolines and -pyrrolidines. Their preparation using asymmetric 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions of azomethine ylides with nitroalkenes using diastereoselective and enantioselective strategies is described remarking the scope and main features of ...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Nejera C,Sansano JM

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00