Drug discovery and development for neglected parasitic diseases

AR Renslo, JH McKerrow - Nature chemical biology, 2006 - nature.com
Diseases caused by tropical parasites affect hundreds of millions of people worldwide but
have been largely neglected for drug development because they affect poor people in poor …

Unpacking the Pathogen Box—an open source tool for fighting neglected tropical disease

CGL Veale - ChemMedChem, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Pathogen Box is a 400‐strong collection of drug‐like compounds, selected for
their potential against several of the world's most important neglected tropical diseases …

Regioselective palladium (0)‐catalyzed cross‐coupling reactions and metal‐halide exchange reactions of tetrabromothiophene: optimization, scope and limitations

ĐT Tùng, ĐT Tuân, N Rasool, A Villinger… - Advanced Synthesis …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The Suzuki reaction of tetrabromothiophene with arylboronic acids provides a regioselective
approach to various 5‐aryl‐2, 3, 4‐tribromothiophenes, symmetrical 2, 5‐diaryl‐3, 4 …

Synthesis and in vitro antiprotozoal activities of dicationic 3, 5-diphenylisoxazoles

DA Patrick, SA Bakunov, SM Bakunova… - Journal of medicinal …, 2007 - ACS Publications
3, 5-Bis (4-amidinophenyl) isoxazole (3) an analogue of 2, 5-bis (4-amidinophenyl) furan
(furamidine) in which the central furan ring is replaced by isoxazole and 42 novel analogues …

Brønsted acid-promoted synthesis of common heterocycles and related bio-active and functional molecules

S Ponra, KC Majumdar - RSC advances, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Various heterocyclic systems based on natural and unnatural biologically active products
were synthesized by Brønsted acid-promoted cyclization. We have made an attempt to …

New developments in human African trypanosomiasis

R Brun, O Balmer - Current opinion in infectious diseases, 2006 - journals.lww.com
The use of T. brucei as model system for molecular and cell biology is regularly producing
new technologies exploitable for diagnosis and new drugs. Drug discovery and …

Discovery of potent and selective inhibitors of Trypanosoma brucei ornithine decarboxylase

DC Smithson, J Lee, AA Shelat, MA Phillips… - Journal of Biological …, 2010 - ASBMB
Human African trypanosomiasis, caused by the eukaryotic parasite Trypanosoma brucei, is
a serious health problem in much of central Africa. The only validated molecular target for …

Strong and weak hydrogen bonds in drug-DNA complexes: a statistical analysis

SK Panigrahi, GR Desiraju - Journal of biosciences, 2007 - Springer
A statistical analysis of strong and weak hydrogen bonds in the minor groove of DNA was
carried out for a set of 70 drug-DNA complexes. The terms 'strong'and 'weak'pertain to the …

Selective mono-to perarylations of tetrabromothiophene by a cyclobutene-1, 2-diylbisimidazolium preligand

A Rahimi, JC Namyslo, MHH Drafz… - The Journal of …, 2011 - ACS Publications
(Cyclobut-1-ene-1, 2-diyl) bis (1-methylimidazolium) tetrafluoroborate is applied as
preligand in palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions starting from …

Effect of 3, 4-ethylenedioxy-extension of thiophene core on the DNA/RNA binding properties and biological activity of bisbenzimidazole amidines

I Stolić, K Mišković, A Magdaleno, AM Silber… - Bioorganic & medicinal …, 2009 - Elsevier
Novel bisbenzimidazoles (4–6), characterized by 3, 4-ethylenedioxy-extension of thiophene
core, revealed pronounced affinity and strong thermal stabilization effect toward ds-DNA …