Discovery of Potent and Selective Leads against Toxoplasma gondii Dihydrofolate Reductase via Structure-Based Design.

abstract：:We report the design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of a (64)Cu-labeled histone deacetylase (HDAC) imaging probe, which was obtained by introduction of metal chelator through click reaction of HDAC inhibitor CUDC-101 and then radiolabeled with (64)Cu. The resulting (64)Cu-labeled compound 7 ([(64)Cu]7) was iden...

journal_title：ACS medicinal chemistry letters

authors： Meng Q,Li F,Jiang S,Li Z

更新日期：2013-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The self-assembly of amyloid proteins into β-sheet rich assemblies is associated with human amyloidoses including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and type 2 diabetes. An attractive therapeutic strategy therefore is to develop small molecules that would inhibit protein self-assembly. Natural polyphenols are p...

journal_title：ACS medicinal chemistry letters

authors： Liu G,Gaines JC,Robbins KJ,Lazo ND

更新日期：2012-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A new subseries of ROMK inhibitors exemplified by 28 has been developed from the initial screening hit 1. The excellent selectivity for ROMK inhibition over related ion channels and pharmacokinetic properties across preclinical species support further preclinical evaluation of 28 as a new mechanism diuretic. Robust ph...

journal_title：ACS medicinal chemistry letters

authors： Walsh SP,Shahripour A,Tang H,Teumelsan N,Frie J,Zhu Y,Priest BT,Swensen AM,Liu J,Margulis M,Visconti R,Weinglass A,Felix JP,Brochu RM,Bailey T,Thomas-Fowlkes B,Alonso-Galicia M,Zhou X,Pai LY,Corona A,Hampton C,H

更新日期：2015-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural modifications to the coumarin core and benzamide side chain of novobiocin have successfully transformed the natural product from a selective DNA gyrase inhibitor into a potent inhibitor of the Hsp90 C-terminus. However, no SAR studies have been conducted on the noviose appendage, which represents the rate-l...

journal_title：ACS medicinal chemistry letters

authors： Zhao H,Kusuma BR,Blagg BS

更新日期：2010-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The acyldepsipeptide (ADEP) antibiotics operate through a clinically unexploited mechanism of action and thus have attracted attention from several antibacterial development groups. The ADEP scaffold is synthetically tractable, and deep-seated modifications have produced extremely potent antibacterial leads against Gr...

journal_title：ACS medicinal chemistry letters

authors： Li Y,Lavey NP,Coker JA,Knobbe JE,Truong DC,Yu H,Lin YS,Nimmo SL,Duerfeldt AS

更新日期：2017-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1021/acsmedchemlett.9b00612.]. ...

journal_title：ACS medicinal chemistry letters

authors： Kaiser TM,Dentmon ZW,Dalloul CE,Sharma SK,Liotta DC

更新日期：2020-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescent biosensors constitute potent tools for probing biomolecules in their natural environment and for visualizing dynamic processes in complex biological samples, living cells, and organisms. They are well suited for highlighting molecular alterations associated with pathological disorders, thereby offering mea...

journal_title：ACS medicinal chemistry letters

authors： Morris MC

更新日期：2013-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Ataluren was reported to suppress nonsense mutations by promoting the readthrough of premature stop codons, although its mechanism of action (MOA) is still debated. The likely interaction of Ataluren with CFTR-mRNA has been previously studied by molecular dynamics. In this work we extended the modeling of Ataluren's M...

journal_title：ACS medicinal chemistry letters

authors： Tutone M,Pibiri I,Lentini L,Pace A,Almerico AM

更新日期：2019-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Novel sources of antibiotics are required to keep pace with the inevitable onset of bacterial resistance. Continuing with our macrolide desmethylation strategy as a source of new antibiotics, we report the total synthesis, molecular modeling and biological evaluation of 4,10-didesmethyl telithromycin (4), a novel desm...

journal_title：ACS medicinal chemistry letters

authors： Velvadapu V,Glassford I,Lee M,Paul T,Debrosse C,Klepacki D,Small MC,Mackerell AD Jr,Andrade RB

更新日期：2012-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:All eight of the major active metabolites of (S)-2-((1S,2S,4R)-bicyclo[2.2.1]heptan-2-ylamino)-5-isopropyl-5-methylthiazol-4(5H)-one (AMG 221, compound 1), an inhibitor of 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 that has entered the clinic for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, were synthetically prepared and confirmed...

journal_title：ACS medicinal chemistry letters

authors： Li A,Yuan CC,Chow D,Chen M,Emery MG,Hale C,Zhang X,Subramanian R,St Jean DJ Jr,Komorowski R,Véniant M,Wang M,Fotsch C

更新日期：2011-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we predicted the potential halogen bonding interaction between compound 2 and the 5-hydroxytryptamine 2B (5-HT2B) receptor and systematically assessed this interaction via structure-activity relationship analysis and molecular dynamics simulations. A physics-based computational protocol was then developed to fur...

journal_title：ACS medicinal chemistry letters

authors： Zhou Y,Wang Y,Li P,Huang XP,Qi X,Du Y,Huang N

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This research explores the first design and synthesis of macrocyclic peptide aldehydes as potent inhibitors of the 20S proteasome. Two novel macrocyclic peptide aldehydes based on the ring-size of the macrocyclic natural product TMC-95 were prepared and evaluated as inhibitors of the 20S proteasome. Both compounds inh...

journal_title：ACS medicinal chemistry letters

authors： Wilson DL,Meininger I,Strater Z,Steiner S,Tomlin F,Wu J,Jamali H,Krappmann D,Götz MG

更新日期：2016-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein thermal shift assays (TSAs) provide a means for characterizing target engagement through ligand-induced thermal stabilization. Although these assays are widely utilized for screening libraries and validating hits in drug discovery programs, they can impose encumbering operational requirements, such as the avai...

journal_title：ACS medicinal chemistry letters

authors： Dart ML,Machleidt T,Jost E,Schwinn MK,Robers MB,Shi C,Kirkland TA,Killoran MP,Wilkinson JM,Hartnett JR,Zimmerman K,Wood KV

更新日期：2018-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication Protein A is the primary eukaryotic ssDNA binding protein that has a central role in initiating the cellular response to DNA damage. RPA recruits multiple proteins to sites of DNA damage via the N-terminal domain of the 70 kDa subunit (RPA70N). Here we describe the optimization of a diphenylpyrazole carbox...

journal_title：ACS medicinal chemistry letters

authors： Waterson AG,Kennedy JP,Patrone JD,Pelz NF,Feldkamp MD,Frank AO,Vangamudi B,Souza-Fagundes EM,Rossanese OW,Chazin WJ,Fesik SW

更新日期：2014-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A medicinal chemistry effort focused on identifying a structurally diverse candidate for phosphoinositide 3-kinase delta (PI3Kδ) led to the discovery of clinical candidate INCB050465 (20, parsaclisib). The unique structure of 20 contains a pyrazolopyrimidine hinge-binder in place of a purine motif that is present in o...

journal_title：ACS medicinal chemistry letters

authors： Yue EW,Li YL,Douty B,He C,Mei S,Wayland B,Maduskuie T,Falahatpisheh N,Sparks RB,Polam P,Zhu W,Glenn J,Feng H,Zhang K,Li Y,He X,Katiyar K,Covington M,Feldman P,Shin N,Wang KH,Diamond S,Li Y,Koblish HK,Hall

更新日期：2019-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Herein we describe the design and synthesis of a series of pyridopyrazine-1,6-dione γ-secretase modulators (GSMs) for Alzheimer's disease (AD) that achieve good alignment of potency, metabolic stability, and low MDR efflux ratios, while also maintaining favorable physicochemical properties. Specifically, incorporation...

journal_title：ACS medicinal chemistry letters

authors： Pettersson M,Johnson DS,Humphrey JM,Butler TW,Am Ende CW,Fish BA,Green ME,Kauffman GW,Mullins PB,O'Donnell CJ,Stepan AF,Stiff CM,Subramanyam C,Tran TP,Vetelino BC,Yang E,Xie L,Bales KR,Pustilnik LR,Steyn SJ,Wood K

更新日期：2015-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular proteins that fail to fold properly result in inactive or disfunctional proteins that can have toxic functions. The unfolded protein response (UPR) is a two-tiered cellular mechanism initiated by eukaryotic cells that have accumulated misfolded proteins within the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). An adaptive pathw...

journal_title：ACS medicinal chemistry letters

authors： Flaherty DP,Miller JR,Garshott DM,Hedrick M,Gosalia P,Li Y,Milewski M,Sugarman E,Vasile S,Salaniwal S,Su Y,Smith LH,Chung TD,Pinkerton AB,Aubé J,Callaghan MU,Golden JE,Fribley AM,Kaufman RJ

更新日期：2014-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A new pseudopeptide epoxide inhibitor, designed for irreversible binding to HIV protease (HIV-PR), has been synthesized and characterized in solution and in the solid state. However, the crystal structure of the complex obtained by inhibitor-enzyme cocrystallization revealed that a minor isomer, with inverted configur...

journal_title：ACS medicinal chemistry letters

authors： Benedetti F,Berti F,Campaner P,Fanfoni L,Demitri N,Olajuyigbe FM,De March M,Geremia S

更新日期：2014-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane-bound pyrophosphatases (mPPases) regulate energy homeostasis in pathogenic protozoan parasites and lack human homologues, which makes them promising targets in e.g. malaria. Yet only few nonphosphorus inhibitors have been reported so far. Here, we explore an isoxazole fragment hit, leading to the discovery of...

journal_title：ACS medicinal chemistry letters

authors： Johansson NG,Turku A,Vidilaseris K,Dreano L,Khattab A,Ayuso Pérez D,Wilkinson A,Zhang Y,Tamminen M,Grazhdankin E,Kiriazis A,Fishwick CWG,Meri S,Yli-Kauhaluoma J,Goldman A,Boije Af Gennäs G,Xhaard H

更新日期：2020-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibitors of the protein methyltransferase Enhancer of Zeste Homolog 2 (EZH2) may have significant therapeutic potential for the treatment of B cell lymphomas and other cancer indications. The ability of the scientific community to explore fully the spectrum of EZH2-associated pathobiology has been hampered by the la...

journal_title：ACS medicinal chemistry letters

authors： Campbell JE,Kuntz KW,Knutson SK,Warholic NM,Keilhack H,Wigle TJ,Raimondi A,Klaus CR,Rioux N,Yokoi A,Kawano S,Minoshima Y,Choi HW,Porter Scott M,Waters NJ,Smith JJ,Chesworth R,Moyer MP,Copeland RA

更新日期：2015-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:With the COVID-19 pandemic, the evolutionary fate of SARS-CoV-2 becomes a matter of utmost concern. Mutation D614G in the spike (S) protein has become dominant, and recent evidence suggests it yields a more stable phenotype with higher transmission efficacy. We carry out a structural analysis that provides mechanistic...

journal_title：ACS medicinal chemistry letters

authors： Fernández A

更新日期：2020-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Several kalihinol natural products, members of the broader isocyanoterpene family of antimalarial agents, are potent inhibitors of Plasmodium falciparum, the agent of the most severe form of human malaria. Our previous total synthesis of kalihinol B provided a blueprint to generate many analogues within this family, s...

journal_title：ACS medicinal chemistry letters

authors： Daub ME,Prudhomme J,Ben Mamoun C,Le Roch KG,Vanderwal CD

更新日期：2017-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Water-soluble cyclodextrin (CyD) complexed with porphyrin derivatives with different substituents in the meso-positions showed different photodynamic activities toward cancer cells under illumination at wavelengths over 600 nm, the most suitable wavelengths for photodynamic therapy (PDT). In particular, aniline- and p...

journal_title：ACS medicinal chemistry letters

authors： Ikeda A,Satake S,Mae T,Ueda M,Sugikawa K,Shigeto H,Funabashi H,Kuroda A

更新日期：2017-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii causes a prevalent human infection for which only the acute stage has an FDA-approved therapy. To find inhibitors of both the acute stage parasites and the persistent cyst stage that causes a chronic infection, we repurposed a compound library containing known inhibitors of parasitic hexokinase, the ...

journal_title：ACS medicinal chemistry letters

authors： Khalifa MM,Martorelli Di Genova B,McAlpine SG,Gallego-Lopez GM,Stevenson DM,Rozema SD,Monaghan NP,Morris JC,Knoll LJ,Golden JE

更新日期：2020-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of aryl hydroxamates recently have been disclosed as irreversible inhibitors of kynurenine amino transferase II (KAT II), an enzyme that may play a role in schizophrenia and other psychiatric and neurological disorders. The utilization of structure-activity relationships (SAR) in conjunction with X-ray crysta...

journal_title：ACS medicinal chemistry letters

authors： Tuttle JB,Anderson M,Bechle BM,Campbell BM,Chang C,Dounay AB,Evrard E,Fonseca KR,Gan X,Ghosh S,Horner W,James LC,Kim JY,McAllister LA,Pandit J,Parikh VD,Rago BJ,Salafia MA,Strick CA,Zawadzke LE,Verhoest PR

更新日期：2012-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:P-glycoprotein (Pgp) is capable of recognizing and transporting a wide range of chemically diverse compounds in vivo. Overcoming Pgp-mediated efflux can represent a significant challenge when penetration into the central nervous system is required or within the context of developing anticancer therapies. While numerou...

journal_title：ACS medicinal chemistry letters

authors： Gunaydin H,Weiss MM,Sun Y

更新日期：2012-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Dipeptidyl nitroalkenes are potent reversible inhibitors of cysteine proteases. Inhibitor 11 resulted to be the most potent one with Ki values of 0.49 and 0.44 nM against rhodesain and cruzain, respectively. According to enzymatic dilution and dialysis experiments, as well as computational and NMR studies, dipeptidyl ...

journal_title：ACS medicinal chemistry letters

authors： Latorre A,Schirmeister T,Kesselring J,Jung S,Johé P,Hellmich UA,Heilos A,Engels B,Krauth-Siegel RL,Dirdjaja N,Bou-Iserte L,Rodríguez S,González FV

更新日期：2016-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Two novel benzofuran derivatives coupled with (99m)Tc complexes were tested as probes for imaging cerebral β-amyloid plaques using single photon emission tomography. Although both derivatives bound to Aβ(1-42) aggregates, (99m)Tc-BAT-BF showed higher affinity than (99m)Tc-MAMA-BF. In sections of brain tissue from an a...

journal_title：ACS medicinal chemistry letters

authors： Ono M,Fuchi Y,Fuchigami T,Kobashi N,Kimura H,Haratake M,Saji H,Nakayama M

更新日期：2010-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The 5-HT(2C) receptor is an attractive drug target in the quest for new therapeutics to treat a variety of human disorders. We have previously undertaken a structural optimization campaign that has led to some potent and moderately selective 5-HT(2C) receptor agonists. After expanding our structure-function library, w...

journal_title：ACS medicinal chemistry letters

authors： Chen G,Cho SJ,Huang XP,Jensen NH,Svennebring A,Sassano MF,Roth BL,Kozikowski AP

更新日期：2011-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of novel antifungal carboline derivatives was designed and synthesized, which showed broad-spectrum antifungal activity. Particularly, compound C38 showed comparable in vitro antifungal activity to fluconazole without toxicity to human embryonic lung cells. It also exhibited good fungicidal activity against b...

journal_title：ACS medicinal chemistry letters

authors： Wang S,Wang Y,Liu W,Liu N,Zhang Y,Dong G,Liu Y,Li Z,He X,Miao Z,Yao J,Li J,Zhang W,Sheng C

更新日期：2014-02-13 00:00:00