Homology Modeling and Docking Studies of Bcl-2 and Bcl-xL with Small Molecule Inhibitors: Identification and Functional Studies.

abstract：:The emergence of multi-resistant bacteria to drugs is recognized as a major cause of the increasing number of deaths in hospitals. Killing these bacteria require multiple expensive drugs that can have side effects. Metal nanoparticles may provide a new strategy to combat them. Due the antimicrobial and antiviral prope...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Oktar FN,Yetmez M,Ficai D,Ficai A,Dumitru F,Pica A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A modified version of the CORAL software (http://www.insilico.eu/coral) allows building up the classification model for the case of the Yes/No data on the anti-sarcoma activity of organic compounds. Three random splits into the sub-training, calibration, and test sets of the data for 3017 compounds were examined. The ...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Toropov AA,Toropova AP,Benfenati E,Gini G,Leszczynska D,Leszczynski J

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prion diseases or transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are fatal neurodegenerative disorders associated with the conformational conversion of the cellular prion protein, PrP(C), into a pathological form known as prion or PrP(Sc). They can be classified into sporadic, inherited and infectious forms. Spontan...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Biljan I,Ilc G,Giachin G,Legname G,Plavec J

更新日期：2013-01-01 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

abstract：:The serotonin receptor subtype 5 HT(1A) was one of the first serotonin receptor subtypes pharmacologically characterized. Over the last twenty years the 5 HT(1A) receptor has been the object of intense research efforts as witnessed by the 5 HT(1A) acting drugs marketed as anxiolytics. In recent years, several new chem...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Lacivita E,Leopoldo M,Berardi F,Perrone R

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The novel peptide hormone ghrelin has recently been recognized as an important co-regulator of growth hormone secretion and energy homeostasis. The significance of ghrelin for obesity and cachexia as well as in the regulation of growth processes is the subject of ongoing basic research as well as clinical studies. It ...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Horvath TL,Diano S,Tschöp M

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying drug binding sites and elucidating drug action mechanisms are important components in a drug discovery process. In this review, we briefly compared three different approaches (sequence- based methods, structure-based methods and probe-based molecular dynamics (MD) methods) to identifying drug binding sites...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Wang Y,Lupala CS,Liu H,Lin X

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Machine learning (ML) computational methods for predicting compounds with pharmacological activity, specific pharmacodynamic and ADMET (absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion and toxicity) properties are being increasingly applied in drug discovery and evaluation. Recently, machine learning techniques such as...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Dobchev DA,Pillai GG,Karelson M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Degenerative diseases are becoming more common with increasing life expectancy of the human population. The 20th century faced a progressive demographic change in the industrialized world, followed by identical trends in population aging in Asia, Africa, and Middle and South America. A significant increase in chronic ...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Delogu GL,Matos MJ

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we applied the "macromolecular docking" procedure to perform molecular modeling with the aim of screening transcription factor sequences for possible interaction to the HIV-1 TAR-RNA, employing the software Hex version 4.2. The molecular modeling data were compared with electrophoretic mobility shift ass...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Khan MT,Mischiati C,Ather A,Ohyama T,Dedachi K,Borgatti M,Kurita N,Gambari R

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a general review of currently available antimalarial drugs, these compounds are gathered according with its chemical structure and the biological targets. A great number of these new antimalarial agents are now moving actively in the pipeline from basic science to clinical studies. ...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Domínguez JN

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ryanodine receptor (RyR) is the major calcium (Ca(2+)) release channel in the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) of skeletal and cardiac muscle and is required for excitation-contraction (EC) coupling. The 565 kDa RyR protein forms a tetrameric channel that is part of a macromolecular signaling complex that also includes...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Lehnart SE,Huang F,Marx SO,Marks AR

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of functionally important biological processes are regulated by allosteric communication within individual proteins and across protein complexes. The proteins controlling these communication networks respond to changes in the cellular environment by switching between different conformational states. Targe...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Persico M,Di Dato A,Orteca N,Fattorusso C,Novellino E,Andreoli M,Ferlini C

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：: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：: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：:It has been shown that the enediyne anticancer antibiotics e.g., calicheamicin, neocarzinostatin and others cleave DNA via the putative intermediate 1,4-diradical formed in the Bergmann cyclization and are thus useful for cancer chemotherapy. The pharmacological activity of these drugs is based, in general, on the act...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Capitani JF,Gaffney SM,Castaldo L,Mitra A

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:Apatamer technology has been around for a quarter of a century and the field had matured enough to start seeing real applications, especially in the medical field. Since their discovery, aptamers rapidly emerged as key players in many fields, such as diagnostics, drug discovery, food science, drug delivery and therape...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Hernandez LI,Machado I,Schafer T,Hernandez FJ

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:R115777 (R)-6-amino[(4-chlorophenyl)(1-methyl-1H-imidazol-5-yl)methyl]-4-(3-chlorophenyl)-1-methyl-2(1H)-quinolinone is a potent and selective inhibitor of farnesyl protein transferase with significant antitumor effects in vivo subsequent to oral administration in mice. Taking its roots into Janssen's ketoconazole and...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Venet M,End D,Angibaud P

更新日期：2003-01-01 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：:Tanshinones are a class of bioactive compounds present in the Chinese herbal medicine Danshen (Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge), containing among others, abietane diterpene quinone scaffolds. Chemical synthesis and biological activity studies of natural and unnatural tanshinone derivatives have been reviewed in this article...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Huang H,Song C,Chang J

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic cancer is a highly malignant tumor with a 5-year survival rate of less than 6%, and incidence increasing year by year globally. Pancreatic cancer has a poor prognosis and a high recurrence rate, almost the same as the death rate. However, the available effective prevention and treatment measures for pancrea...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Zhu Z,Xiao S,Hao H,Hou Q,Fu X

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four compounds (isoquercitrin, myricetin-3-O-glucoside, catechin and gallocatechin) were isolated from lyophilized aqueous extract of Schizolobium parahyba leaves by chromatography on Sephadex LH-20, followed by semipreparative HPLC using a C-18 column, and identified by 1H and 13C NMR. The compounds were then, tested...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： F Vale LH,Mendes MM,Fernandes RS,Costa TR,S Hage-Melim LI,A Sousa M,Hamaguchi A,Homsi-Brandeburgo MI,Franca SC,Silva CH,Pereira PS,Soares AM,Rodrigues VM

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review covers recent progress in the discovery of selective glucocorticoid receptor (GR) antagonists. Potential therapeutic applications of selective GR antagonists are described including the pharmacological rationale and, in some cases, clinical evidence that underlies these proposed uses. Disease areas that ar...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Clark RD

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three distinct chemical classes for the control of gastrointestinal nematodes are available: benzimidazoles, imidazothiazoles, and macrocyclic lactones. The relentless development of drug resistance has severely limited the usefulness of such drugs and the search for a new class of compounds preferably with a differ...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Lee BH,Clothier MF,Dutton FE,Nelson SJ,Johnson SS,Thompson DP,Geary TG,Whaley HD,Haber CL,Marshall VP,Kornis GI,McNally PL,Ciadella JI,Martin DG,Bowman JW,Baker CA,Coscarelli EM,Alexander-Bowman SJ,Davis JP,Zinser E

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in DNA microarray technology have great impact on many areas of biomedical research and pharmacogenomics: discovering novel targets and genes, elucidating signatures of complex diseases, transcriptional profiling of models for diseases, and the development of individually optimized drugs based on diffe...

journal_title：Current topics in medicinal chemistry

authors： Hackl H,Sanchez Cabo F,Sturn A,Wolkenhauer O,Trajanoski Z

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：: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：: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