The evolving role of natural products in drug discovery

FE Koehn, GT Carter - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2005 - nature.com
Natural products and their derivatives have historically been invaluable as a source of
therapeutic agents. However, in the past decade, research into natural products in the …

[HTML][HTML] Chemical probes and drug leads from advances in synthetic planning and methodology

CJ Gerry, SL Schreiber - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2018 - nature.com
Screening of small-molecule libraries is a productive method for identifying both chemical
probes of disease-related targets and potential starting points for drug discovery. In this …

Impact of natural products on developing new anti-cancer agents

GM Cragg, PG Grothaus, DJ Newman - Chemical reviews, 2009 - ACS Publications
Throughout the ages, Nature has catered to the basic needs of humans, not the least of
which is the provision of medicines for the treatment of a wide spectrum of diseases. Plants …

Pyrrolidinyl‐spirooxindole natural products as inspirations for the development of potential therapeutic agents

CV Galliford, KA Scheidt - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The 3, 3′‐pyrrolidinyl‐spirooxindole unit is a privileged heterocyclic motif that
forms the core of a large family of alkaloid natural products with strong bioactivity profiles …

Diversity-oriented synthesis as a tool for the discovery of novel biologically active small molecules

WRJD Galloway, A Isidro-Llobet, DR Spring - Nature communications, 2010 - nature.com
Biologically active molecules can be identified through the screening of small-molecule
libraries. Deficiencies in current compound collections are evidenced by the continuing …

The emerging role of RNA as a therapeutic target for small molecules

CM Connelly, MH Moon, JS Schneekloth - Cell chemical biology, 2016 - cell.com
Recent advances in understanding different RNAs and unique features of their biology have
revealed a wealth of information. However, approaches to identify small molecules that …

New horizons for old drugs and drug leads

GM Cragg, PG Grothaus… - Journal of natural products, 2014 - ACS Publications
There is mounting urgency to find new drugs for the treatment of serious infectious diseases
and cancer that are rapidly developing resistance to previously effective drugs. One …

Diversity-oriented synthesis: exploring the intersections between chemistry and biology

DS Tan - Nature chemical biology, 2005 - nature.com
Diversity-oriented synthesis (DOS) is an emerging field involving the synthesis of
combinatorial libraries of diverse small molecules for biological screening. Rather than …

Small molecules of different origins have distinct distributions of structural complexity that correlate with protein-binding profiles

PA Clemons, NE Bodycombe… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
Using a diverse collection of small molecules generated from a variety of sources, we
measured protein-binding activities of each individual compound against each of 100 …

Natürliche pyrrolidinylspirooxindole als vorlagen für die entwicklung medizinischer wirkstoffe

CV Galliford, KA Scheidt - Angewandte Chemie, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Das 3, 3′‐Pyrrolidinylspirooxindol‐System ist ein privilegiertes heterocyclisches
Strukturmotiv, das die zentrale Einheit bei einer großen Familie von natürlichen Alkaloiden …