abstract：:The design and synthesis of heparin mimetics with high anticancer activity but no anticoagulant activity is an important task in medicinal chemistry. Here, we present the efficient synthesis of five Glc-GlcA-Glc sequenced and one Glc-IdoA-Glc sequenced non-glycosaminoglycan, heparin-related trisaccharides with various...

journal_title：ChemMedChem

authors： Lisztes E,Mező E,Demeter F,Horváth L,Bősze S,Tóth BI,Borbás A,Herczeg M

更新日期：2021-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The protozoan parasite Plasmodium falciparum causes the most severe and prevailing form of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa. Previously, we identified the plasmodial lactate transporter, PfFNT, a member of the microbial formate-nitrite transporter family, as a novel antimalarial drug target. With the pentafluoro-3-hydrox...

journal_title：ChemMedChem

authors： Walloch P,Hansen C,Priegann T,Schade D,Beitz E

更新日期：2020-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmaniasis is a complex disease caused by over 20 Leishmania species that primarily affects populations with poor socioeconomic conditions. Currently available drugs for treating leishmaniasis include amphotericin B, paromomycin, and pentavalent antimonials, which have been associated with several limitations, such...

journal_title：ChemMedChem

authors： Herrera-Acevedo C,Perdomo-Madrigal C,Muratov EN,Scotti L,Scotti MT

更新日期：2020-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A historical overview of key events that led, 50 years ago, to the foundation of the European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry (EFMC), and the impact this had on promoting and structuring medicinal chemistry as a discipline in Europe. EFMC, together with the growing number of newly established national medicinal che...

journal_title：ChemMedChem

authors： Differding E

更新日期：2020-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Designed multitarget ligands are a popular approach to generating efficient and safe drugs, and fragment-based strategies have been postulated as a versatile avenue to discover multitarget ligand leads. To systematically probe the potential of fragment-based multiple ligand discovery, we have employed a large fragment...

journal_title：ChemMedChem

authors： Brunst S,Kramer JS,Kilu W,Heering J,Pollinger J,Hiesinger K,George S,Steinhilber D,Merk D,Proschak E

更新日期：2020-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Aberrant WNT pathway activation, leading to nuclear accumulation of β-catenin, is a key oncogenic driver event. Mutations in the tumor suppressor gene APC lead to impaired proteasomal degradation of β-catenin and subsequent nuclear translocation. Restoring cellular degradation of β-catenin represents a potential thera...

journal_title：ChemMedChem

authors： Kessler D,Mayer M,Zahn SK,Zeeb M,Wöhrle S,Bergner A,Bruchhaus J,Ciftci T,Dahmann G,Dettling M,Döbel S,Fuchs JE,Geist L,Hela W,Kofink C,Kousek R,Moser F,Puchner T,Rumpel K,Scharnweber M,Werni P,Wolkerstorfer B,

更新日期：2020-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmodium parasites kill 435 000 people around the world every year due to unavailable vaccines, a limited arsenal of antimalarial drugs, delayed treatment, and the reduced clinical effectiveness of current practices caused by drug resistance. Therefore, there is an urgent need to discover and develop new antiplasmod...

journal_title：ChemMedChem

authors： de Souza Pereira C,Costa Quadros H,Magalhaes Moreira DR,Castro W,Santos De Deus Da Silva RI,Botelho Pereira Soares M,Fontinha D,Prudêncio M,Schmitz V,Dos Santos HF,Gendrot M,Fonta I,Mosnier J,Pradines B,Navarro M

更新日期：2020-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently we reported on aryl-fluorosulfates as possible stable and effective electrophiles for the design of lysine covalent, cell permeable antagonists of protein-protein interactions (PPIs). Here we revisit the use of aryl-sulfonyl fluorides as Lys-targeting moieties, incorporating these electrophiles in XIAP (X-lin...

journal_title：ChemMedChem

authors： Gambini L,Udompholkul P,Salem AF,Baggio C,Pellecchia M

更新日期：2020-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Different Mannich base derivatives have been studied with the aim of addressing the poor aqueous solubility of the recently disclosed 6-phenethyl-2,3,4,5-tetrahydroazepino[4,3-b]indol-1(6H)-one (1), a human butyrylcholinesterase inhibitor (hBChE, IC50 13 nM) and protective agent in NMDA-induced neurotoxicity, in in vi...

journal_title：ChemMedChem

authors： Purgatorio R,de Candia M,Catto M,Rullo M,Pisani L,Denora N,Carrieri A,Nevskaya AA,Voskressensky LG,Altomare CD

更新日期：2020-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The natural product piperlonguminine (PL) has been shown to exert potential anticancer activity against several types of cancer via elevation of reactive oxidative species (ROS). However, the application of PL has been limited due to its poor water solubility and moderate activity. To improve PL's potency, we designed...

journal_title：ChemMedChem

authors： Wang X,Qian J,Zhu P,Hua R,Liu J,Hang J,Meng C,Shan W,Miao J,Ling Y

更新日期：2020-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin resistance is a major pathophysiological feature in the development of type 2 diabetes (T2DM). Ferulic acid is known for attenuating the insulin resistance and reducing the blood glucose in T2DM rats. In this work, we designed and synthesized a library of new ferulic acid amides (FAA), which could be considere...

journal_title：ChemMedChem

authors： Yasmin S,Cerchia C,Badavath VN,Laghezza A,Dal Piaz F,Mondal SK,Atlı Ö,Baysal M,Vadivelan S,Shankar S,Siddique MUM,Pattnaik AK,Singh RP,Loiodice F,Jayaprakash V,Lavecchia A

更新日期：2020-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:An alternative method to prepare 2-organylchalcogenopheno[2,3-b]pyridines was developed by the insertion of chalcogen species (selenium, sulfur or tellurium), generated in situ, into 2-chloro-3-(organylethynyl)pyridines by using the NaBH4 /PEG-400 reducing system, followed by an intramolecular cyclization. It was poss...

journal_title：ChemMedChem

authors： Peglow TJ,Bartz RH,Martins CC,Belladona AL,Luchese C,Wilhelm EA,Schumacher RF,Perin G

更新日期：2020-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:First reported in the late 1930s and partly explained in 1970, the antibacterial activity of pectin remained almost ignored until the late 1990s. The concomitant emergence of research on natural antibacterials and new usages of pectin polysaccharides, including those in medicine widely researched in Russia, has led to...

journal_title：ChemMedChem

authors： Ciriminna R,Fidalgo A,Meneguzzo F,Presentato A,Scurria A,Nuzzo D,Alduina R,Ilharco LM,Pagliaro M

更新日期：2020-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Three photoswitchable tetrapeptides, based on a known synthetic antibacterial, were designed and synthesized to determine activity against Staphylococcus aureus. Each peptide contains an azobenzene photoswitch incorporated into either the N-terminal side chain (1), C-terminal side chain (2), or the C-terminus (3) to a...

journal_title：ChemMedChem

authors： Yeoh YQ,Horsley JR,Yu J,Polyak SW,Jovcevski B,Abell AD

更新日期：2020-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously described synapsin III (Syn III) as a synaptic phosphoprotein that controls dopamine release in cooperation with α-synuclein (aSyn). Moreover, we found that in Parkinson's disease (PD), Syn III also participates in aSyn aggregation and toxicity. Our recent observations point to threo-methylphenidate (MPH...

journal_title：ChemMedChem

authors： Casiraghi A,Longhena F,Straniero V,Faustini G,Newman AH,Bellucci A,Valoti E

更新日期：2020-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Plumbagin (5-hydroxy-2-methyl-1,4-naphthoquinone) is a small molecule with potent anticancer activity. Like other 1,4-naphthoquinones, it exhibits electrophilic reactivity towards biological nucleophiles. We demonstrate that plumbagin and structurally related 1,4-naphthoquinones with at least one unsubstituted quinoid...

journal_title：ChemMedChem

authors： Chrastina A,Welsh J,Rondeau G,Abedinpour P,Borgström P,Baron VT

更新日期：2020-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeted structural modifications have led to a novel type of buprenorphine-derived opioid receptor ligand displaying an improved selectivity profile for the μ-OR subtype. On this basis, it is shown that phenylazocarboxamides may serve as useful bioisosteric replacements for the widely occurring cinnamide units, witho...

journal_title：ChemMedChem

authors： Krüll J,Fehler SK,Hofmann L,Nebel N,Maschauer S,Prante O,Gmeiner P,Lanig H,Hübner H,Heinrich MR

更新日期：2020-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In solution, amphoteric compounds exist in anionic, uncharged, zwitterionic and cationic forms. The importance of zwitterionic drugs is currently under-represented in the literature. Herein, the acid-base parameters, lipophilicity and solubility of such compounds are discussed to deepen the molecular-level understandi...

journal_title：ChemMedChem

authors： Mazák K,Noszál B

更新日期：2020-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B (PTP1B) is an important target for the treatment of diabetes. A series of thiazolidin-4-one derivatives 8-22 was designed, synthesized and investigated as PTP1B inhibitors. The new molecules inhibited PTP1B with IC50 values in the micromolar range. 5-(Furan-2-ylmethylene)-2-(4-nitrophen...

journal_title：ChemMedChem

authors： Patel AD,Pasha TY,Lunagariya P,Shah U,Bhambharoliya T,Tripathi RKP

更新日期：2020-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Even though immunotherapy has radically changed the search for anticancer therapies, there are still many different pathways that are open to intervention with traditional small molecules. To expand our investigation in the anticancer field, we report here a new series of compounds in which our previous pyrazole and i...

journal_title：ChemMedChem

authors： Brullo C,Rapetti F,Alfei S,Maric I,Rizzelli F,Mapelli M,Rosano C,Viale M,Bruno O

更新日期：2020-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysine-specific demethylase 1 (LSD1) is a flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD)-dependent enzyme that catalyzes the demethylation of histone H3 and regulates gene expression. Because it is implicated in the regulation of diseases such as acute myeloid leukemia, potent LSD1-specific inhibitors have been pursued. Trans-2-ph...

journal_title：ChemMedChem

authors： Niwa H,Sato S,Handa N,Sengoku T,Umehara T,Yokoyama S

更新日期：2020-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the original approach, a series of metallated N-confused porphyrins and metallated porphyrins have been synthesized and characterized. For all the synthesized porphyrins, in vitro studies of cytotoxic activity against K562, U937, HL-60, Jurkat, A549 and HeLa cancer cell lines, the ability to induce apoptosis and...

journal_title：ChemMedChem

authors： Halder N,Dzhemileva LU,Ramazanov IR,D'yakonov VA,Dzhemilev UM,Rath H

更新日期：2020-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:LSD1 is a lysine demethylase highly involved in initiation and development of cancer. To design highly effective covalent inhibitors, a strategy is to fill its large catalytic cleft by designing tranylcypromine (TCP) analogs decorated with long, hindered substituents. We prepared three series of TCP analogs, carrying ...

journal_title：ChemMedChem

authors： Fioravanti R,Romanelli A,Mautone N,Di Bello E,Rovere A,Corinti D,Zwergel C,Valente S,Rotili D,Botrugno OA,Dessanti P,Vultaggio S,Vianello P,Cappa A,Binda C,Mattevi A,Minucci S,Mercurio C,Varasi M,Mai A

更新日期：2020-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Dual inhibition of microsomal prostaglandin E2 synthase-1 (mPGES-1) and 5-lipoxygenase (5-LO), two key enzymes involved in pro-inflammatory eicosanoid biosynthesis, represents a new strategy for treating inflammatory disorders. Herein we report the discovery of 2,4-thiazolidinedione-based mPGES-1/5-LO dual inhibitors ...

journal_title：ChemMedChem

authors： Lauro G,Terracciano S,Cantone V,Ruggiero D,Fischer K,Pace S,Werz O,Bruno I,Bifulco G

更新日期：2020-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:There is an urgent clinical need for imaging of α-synuclein (αSyn) fibrils, the hallmark biomarker for Parkinson's disease, in neurodegenerative disorders. Despite immense efforts, promising tracer candidates for nuclear imaging of αSyn are rare. Diphenyl pyrazoles are known modulators of αSyn aggregation and thus bea...

journal_title：ChemMedChem

authors： Maurer A,Leonov A,Ryazanov S,Herfert K,Kuebler L,Buss S,Schmidt F,Weckbecker D,Linder R,Bender D,Giese A,Pichler BJ,Griesinger C

更新日期：2020-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A facile protocol that enables synthetic interconversion of CUR-BF2 and CUR compounds is described that significantly widens the preparative scope of curcuminoids, providing access to larger libraries of compounds, thus enabling comparative antiproliferative and apoptotic study of a larger library of synthetic analogs...

journal_title：ChemMedChem

authors： Abonia R,Laali KK,Raja Somu D,Bunge SD,Wang EC

更新日期：2020-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeting the tumor cell mitochondrion could produce novel anticancer agents. We designed an aryl-urea fatty acid (1 g; 16({[4-chloro-3-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]carbamoyl}amino)hexadecanoic acid) that disrupted the mitochondrion and decreased MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cell viability. To optimize the aryl-ureas the prese...

journal_title：ChemMedChem

authors： Murray M,Roseblade A,Chen Y,Bourget K,Rawling T

更新日期：2020-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The polyether ionophore salinomycin (SAL) has captured much interest because of its potent activity against cancer cells and cancer stem cells. Our previous studies have indicated that C1/C20 double-modification of SAL is a useful strategy to generate diverse agents with promising biological activity profiles. Thus, h...

journal_title：ChemMedChem

authors： Czerwonka D,Urbaniak A,Sobczak S,Piña-Oviedo S,Chambers TC,Antoszczak M,Huczyński A

更新日期：2020-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:AFMC-AIMECS meetings are internationally organized biannually by the Asian Federation for Medicinal Chemistry (AFMC) and are focused on recent studies in drug discovery and development both in academia and industry. Member organizations of the AFMC are the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan, the Chinese Pharmaceutical As...

journal_title：ChemMedChem

authors： Olgac A,Yalcin I,Aki-Yalcin E

更新日期：2020-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The β-site amyloid precursor protein cleaving enzyme 1 (BACE1, also known as β-secretase) is a promising target for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. A pKa lowering approach over the initial leads was adopted to mitigate hERG inhibition and P-gp efflux, leading to the design of 6-CF3 dihydrothiazine 8 (N-(3-((4S,6...

journal_title：ChemMedChem

authors： Anan K,Iso Y,Oguma T,Nakahara K,Suzuki S,Yamamoto T,Matsuoka E,Ito H,Sakaguchi G,Ando S,Morimoto K,Kanegawa N,Kido Y,Kawachi T,Fukushima T,Teisman A,Urmaliya V,Dhuyvetter D,Borghys H,Austin N,Van Den Bergh A,Ver

更新日期：2019-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the advantages of sp3 -rich, sterically complicated molecules in drug development have been pointed out, modern screening libraries are filled with planar, sp2 -rich components. Compounds that are sp3 -rich are difficult to synthesize, and thus we aimed to invent an efficient method to construct sp3 -rich lib...

journal_title：ChemMedChem

authors： Karaki F,Umemoto S,Ashizawa K,Oki T,Sato N,Ogino T,Ishibashi N,Someya R,Miyano K,Hirayama S,Uezono Y,Fujii H

更新日期：2019-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron is essential for the pathogenicity and virulence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which synthesises salicyl-capped siderophores (mycobactins) to acquire this element from the host. MbtA is the adenylating enzyme that catalyses the initial reaction of mycobactin biosynthesis and is solely expressed by mycobacteria. ...

journal_title：ChemMedChem

authors： Ferguson L,Wells G,Bhakta S,Johnson J,Guzman J,Parish T,Prentice RA,Brucoli F

更新日期：2019-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The ferrocenyl diphenol complexes 1,1-bis(4'-hydroxyphenyl)-2-ferrocenyl-but-1-ene (1) and 1,2-bis(4'-hydroxyphenyl)-1-ferrocenyl-but-1-ene [(Z)-2], which differ by the relative position of the two phenolic substituents, display dramatically different antiproliferative activities on cancer cells (1 is far more cytotox...

journal_title：ChemMedChem

authors： Tonolo F,Salmain M,Scalcon V,Top S,Pigeon P,Folda A,Caron B,McGlinchey MJ,Toillon RA,Bindoli A,Jaouen G,Vessières A,Rigobello MP

更新日期：2019-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis of SCF3 as well as SeCF3 isosteres of two OCF3 -containing drugs was achieved through visible light and copper-catalyzed processes. Herein, we show that chalcogen replacement modulates physicochemical and ADME properties without introducing intrinsic liabilities. The SCF3 and SeCF3 groups are more lipoph...

journal_title：ChemMedChem

authors： Ghiazza C,Billard T,Dickson C,Tlili A,Gampe CM

更新日期：2019-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Herein we report the synthesis, photophysical properties, positron emission tomography (PET) imaging and photodynamic therapy (PDT) efficacy of methyl 3-(1'-m-iodobenzyloxy)ethyl-3-devinyl-verdin 4 (with or without the 124 I isotope). The PET imaging ability and ex vivo biodistribution of [124 I]4 were compared with t...

journal_title：ChemMedChem

authors： Marko AJ,Dukh M,Patel NJ,Missert JR,Ohulchanskyy T,Tabaczynski WA,Ohkubo K,Fukuzumi S,Yao R,Sajjad M,Pandey RK

更新日期：2019-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Two series of racemic goniothalamin analogues displaying nitrogen-containing groups were designed and synthesized. A total of 19 novel analogues were evaluated against a panel of four different cancer cell lines, along with the normal prostate cell line PNT2 to determine their selectivity. Among them, goniothalamin ch...

journal_title：ChemMedChem

authors： Meirelles MA,Braga CB,Ornelas C,Pilli RA

更新日期：2019-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A set of piperonylic acid derived hydrazones with variable isatin moieties was synthesized and evaluated for their inhibitory activity against the enzymes acetylcholinesterase (AChE), butyrylcholinesterase (BChE), and monoamine oxidases A and B (MAO-A/B). The results of in vitro studies revealed IC50 values in the mic...

journal_title：ChemMedChem

authors： Vishnu MS,Pavankumar V,Kumar S,Raja AS

更新日期：2019-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Up to 45 % of deaths in developed nations can be attributed to chronic fibroproliferative diseases, highlighting the need for effective therapies. The RGD (Arg-Gly-Asp) integrin αvβ1 was recently investigated for its role in fibrotic disease, and thus warrants therapeutic targeting. Herein we describe the identificati...

journal_title：ChemMedChem

authors： Hatley RJD,Barrett TN,Slack RJ,Watson ME,Baillache DJ,Gruszka A,Washio Y,Rowedder JE,Pogány P,Pal S,Macdonald SJF

更新日期：2019-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Herein we describe the optimization of a phenotypic hit against Plasmodium falciparum based on an aminoacetamide scaffold. This led to N-(3-chloro-4-fluorophenyl)-2-methyl-2-{[4-methyl-3-(morpholinosulfonyl)phenyl]amino}propanamide (compound 28) with low-nanomolar activity against the intraerythrocytic stages of the m...

journal_title：ChemMedChem

authors： Norcross NR,Wilson C,Baragaña B,Hallyburton I,Osuna-Cabello M,Norval S,Riley J,Fletcher D,Sinden R,Delves M,Ruecker A,Duffy S,Meister S,Antonova-Koch Y,Crespo B,de Cózar C,Sanz LM,Gamo FJ,Avery VM,Frearson JA,Gray

更新日期：2019-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Given the worldwide spread of bacterial drug resistance, there is an urgent need to develop new compounds that exhibit potent antibacterial activity and that are unimpaired by this phenomenon. Quaternary ammonium compounds have been used for many years as disinfectants, but recent advances have shown that polycationic...

journal_title：ChemMedChem

authors： Thomas B,Duval RE,Fontanay S,Varbanov M,Boisbrun M

更新日期：2019-07-03 00:00:00