Halogen atoms in the modern medicinal chemistry: hints for the drug design

MZ Hernandes, SMT Cavalcanti… - Current drug …, 2010 - ingentaconnect.com
A significant number of drugs and drug candidates in clinical development are halogenated
structures. For a long time, insertion of halogen atoms on hit or lead compounds was …

[HTML][HTML] Homology modeling a fast tool for drug discovery: current perspectives

VK Vyas, RD Ukawala, M Ghate… - Indian journal of …, 2012 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Major goal of structural biology involve formation of protein-ligand complexes; in which the
protein molecules act energetically in the course of binding. Therefore, perceptive of protein …

CysDB: a human cysteine database based on experimental quantitative chemoproteomics

LM Boatner, MF Palafox, DK Schweppe… - Cell Chemical …, 2023 - cell.com
Cysteine chemoproteomics provides proteome-wide portraits of the ligandability or potential"
druggability" for thousands of cysteine residues. Consequently, these studies are facilitating …

Thiosemicarbazones, semicarbazones, dithiocarbazates and hydrazide/hydrazones: Anti–Mycobacterium tuberculosis activity and cytotoxicity

FR Pavan, PIS Maia, SRA Leite, VM Deflon… - European journal of …, 2010 - Elsevier
The aim of this study was to identify a candidate drug for the development of anti-
tuberculosis therapy from previously synthesized compounds based on the …

Vinyl sulfones as antiparasitic agents and a structural basis for drug design

ID Kerr, JH Lee, CJ Farady, R Marion, M Rickert… - Journal of Biological …, 2009 - ASBMB
Cysteine proteases of the papain superfamily are implicated in a number of cellular
processes and are important virulence factors in the pathogenesis of parasitic disease …

Trypanocidal drugs: mechanisms, resistance and new targets

SR Wilkinson, JM Kelly - Expert reviews in molecular medicine, 2009 - cambridge.org
The protozoan parasites Trypanosoma brucei and Trypanosoma cruzi are the causative
agents of African trypanosomiasis and Chagas disease, respectively. These are debilitating …

Design, synthesis and in vitro antimalarial activity of an acylhydrazone library

P Melnyk, V Leroux, C Sergheraert, P Grellier - Bioorganic & medicinal …, 2006 - Elsevier
A library of acylhydrazone iron chelators was synthesized and tested for its ability to inhibit
the growth of a chloroquine-resistant strain of Plasmodium falciparum. Some of these new …

A series of α-heterocyclic carboxaldehyde thiosemicarbazones inhibit topoisomerase IIα catalytic activity

H Huang, Q Chen, X Ku, L Meng, L Lin… - Journal of medicinal …, 2010 - ACS Publications
A series of novel thiosemicarbazone derivatives bearing condensed heterocyclic
carboxaldehyde moieties were designed and synthesized. Among them, TSC24 exhibited …

Ferroquine and its derivatives: new generation of antimalarial agents

WA Wani, E Jameel, U Baig, S Mumtazuddin… - European journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Malaria has been teasing human populations from a long time. Presently, several classes of
antimalarial drugs are available in market, but the issues of toxicity, lower efficacy and the …

Natural and synthetic small boron-containing molecules as potential inhibitors of bacterial and fungal quorum sensing

VM Dembitsky, AAA Al Quntar, M Srebnik - Chemical Reviews, 2011 - ACS Publications
Chemical communication is a phenomenon exhibited by many different organisms and
nowadays is one of the most prominent research areas at the chemistry-microbiology …