Naphthalene diimides: perspectives and promise

SV Bhosale, M Al Kobaisi, RW Jadhav… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
In this review, we describe the developments in the field of naphthalene diimides (NDIs)
from 2016 to the presentday. NDIs are shown to be an increasingly interesting class of …

Biomolecules-derived biomaterials

LP Datta, S Manchineella, T Govindaraju - Biomaterials, 2020 - Elsevier
Human civilization has witnessed the use of materials-derived from biomolecules of plants
and animal origin for biomedical applications since ancient era. In recent years, precision …

On the road to fight cancer: The potential of G-quadruplex ligands as novel therapeutic agents

I Alessandrini, M Recagni, N Zaffaroni… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Nucleic acid sequences able to adopt a G-quadruplex conformation are overrepresented
within the human genome. This evidence strongly suggests that these genomic regions …

Structural insight into the bulge-containing KRAS oncogene promoter G-quadruplex bound to berberine and coptisine

KB Wang, Y Liu, J Li, C Xiao, Y Wang, W Gu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
KRAS is one of the most highly mutated oncoproteins, which is overexpressed in various
human cancers and implicated in poor survival. The G-quadruplex formed in KRAS …

Disentangling the structure–activity relationships of naphthalene diimides as anticancer G-quadruplex-targeting drugs

C Platella, E Napolitano, C Riccardi… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2021 - ACS Publications
In the context of developing efficient anticancer therapies aimed at eradicating any sort of
tumors, G-quadruplexes represent excellent targets. Small molecules able to interact with G …

Naphthalene diimides as multimodal G-quadruplex-selective ligands

V Pirota, M Nadai, F Doria, SN Richter - Molecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
G-quadruplexes are four-stranded nucleic acids structures that can form in guanine-rich
sequences. Following the observation that G-quadruplexes are particularly abundant in …

G-Quadruplex DNA as a target in pathogenic bacteria: efficacy of an extended naphthalene diimide ligand and its mode of action

R Cebrián, E Belmonte-Reche, V Pirota… - Journal of medicinal …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Guanidine DNA quadruplex (G4-DNA) structures convey a distinctive layer of epigenetic
information that is critical for regulating key biological activities and processes as …

G4-iM Grinder: when size and frequency matter. G-Quadruplex, i-Motif and higher order structure search and analysis tool

E Belmonte-Reche, JC Morales - NAR genomics and …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract We present G4-iM Grinder, a system for the localization, characterization and
selection of potential G4s, i-Motifs and higher order structures. A robust and highly …

Binding and Beyond: What Else Can G‐Quadruplex Ligands Do?

MP O'Hagan, JC Morales… - European Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
G‐quadruplexes (G4) are four‐stranded structures formed from guanine‐rich
oligonucleotides. Their defined 3D structures and polymorphic nature set them apart from …

Structure–Activity Study on Substituted, Core-Extended, and Dyad Naphthalene Diimide G-Quadruplex Ligands Leading to Potent Antitrypanosomal Agents

A Benassi, P Peñalver, M Pérez-Soto… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Several G-quadruplex nucleic acid (G4s) ligands have been developed seeking target
selectivity in the past decade. Naphthalene diimide (NDI)-based compounds are particularly …