Topoisomerase I inhibitors: Challenges, progress and the road ahead

A Talukdar, B Kundu, D Sarkar, S Goon… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Topoisomerase IB (Top1), a subcategory of DNA topoisomerase enzymes is
expressed much higher in several tumor cells. Therefore, modulating the activity of Top1 in …

Natural product evodiamine-inspired medicinal chemistry: Anticancer activity, structural optimization and structure-activity relationship

Z Wang, Y Xiong, Y Peng, X Zhang, S Li, Y Peng… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
It is a well-known phenomenon that natural products can serve as powerful drug leads to
generate new molecular entities with novel therapeutic utility. Evodiamine (Evo), a major …

Development of a new drug candidate for the inhibition of Lassa virus glycoprotein and nucleoprotein by modification of evodiamine as promising therapeutic agents

S Akash, J Baeza, S Mahmood, N Mukerjee… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The Lassa virus (LASV), an RNA virus prevalent in West and Central Africa, causes severe
hemorrhagic fever with a high fatality rate. However, no FDA-approved treatments or …

Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of novel evodiamine derivatives as potential antihepatocellular carcinoma agents

F Lei, Y Xiong, Y Wang, H Zhang, Z Liang… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Evodiamine has many biological activities. Herein, we synthesize 23 disubstituted
derivatives of N14-phenyl or the E-ring of evodiamine and conduct systematic structure …

Design, synthesis and bioactivity evaluation of favorable evodiamine derivative scaffold for developing cancer therapy

Z Liang, Y Wang, H Zhang, J Deng, F Lei, J Li… - European journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Natural product evodiamine is one of the most privileged scaffolds in drug discovery and is
suitable for derivatization, which can be conducted quickly for structure optimization and …

N (14)-substituted evodiamine derivatives as dual topoisomerase 1/tubulin-Inhibiting anti-gastrointestinal tumor agents

J Deng, L Long, X Peng, W Jiang, Y Peng… - European journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Gastrointestinal tumor is an important factor threatening human health. Natural product-
based drug discovery is a popular paradigm for expanding the chemical space and …

Evodiamine: a privileged structure with broad-ranging biological activities

D Li, Y Li, X Jiang, W Liu, Q Zhao - Mini Reviews in Medicinal …, 2022 - ingentaconnect.com
Evodiamine (EVO) is a natural quinolone alkaloid firstly isolated from the fruit of Evodia
rutaecarpa, which is one of the most frequently used traditional Chinese herb for treating a …

[HTML][HTML] Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of benzenesulfonyl chloride-substituted evodiamine derivatives as potential PGAM1 inhibitors

B Wei, J Ma, H Guo, Y Zhang, W Zhang, W Chen… - Arabian Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Evodiamine (EVO) is a quinazoline carboline alkaloid isolated from the fruits of the
traditional Chinese herb Evodiae fructus. In the present study, we synthesized thirty EVO …

An A-ring substituted evodiamine derivative with potent anticancer activity against human non-small cell lung cancer cells by targeting heat shock protein 70

HY Min, Y Lim, H Kwon, HJ Boo, SY Hyun… - Biochemical …, 2023 - Elsevier
The heat shock protein (HSP) system is essential for the conformational stability and function
of several proteins. Therefore, the development of efficacious HSP-targeting anticancer …

Experimental and computational study on anti-gastric cancer activity and mechanism of evodiamine derivatives

J Liu, Y Xue, K Bai, F Yan, X Long, H Guo… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: Human topoisomerase 1 (TOP1) is an important target of various anticancer
compounds. The design and discovery of inhibitors targeting TOP1 are of great significance …