Tailor‐made amino acids and fluorinated motifs as prominent traits in modern pharmaceuticals

H Mei, J Han, S White, DJ Graham… - … A European Journal, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Structural analysis of modern pharmaceutical practices allows for the identification of two
rapidly growing trends: the introduction of tailor‐made amino acids and the exploitation of …

Discovery and development of anti-HIV therapeutic agents: progress towards improved HIV medication

K Maeda, D Das, T Kobayakawa… - Current Topics in …, 2019 - ingentaconnect.com
The history of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/AIDS therapy, which spans over 30
years, is one of the most dramatic stories of science and medicine leading to the treatment of …

POVME 2.0: an enhanced tool for determining pocket shape and volume characteristics

JD Durrant, L Votapka, J Sørensen… - Journal of chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Analysis of macromolecular/small-molecule binding pockets can provide important insights
into molecular recognition and receptor dynamics. Since its release in 2011, the POVME …

Rapid shape-based ligand alignment and virtual screening method based on atom/feature-pair similarities and volume overlap scoring

GM Sastry, SL Dixon, W Sherman - Journal of chemical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Shape-based methods for aligning and scoring ligands have proven to be valuable in the
field of computer-aided drug design. Here, we describe a new shape-based flexible ligand …

Copper-catalyzed asymmetric cyclization of alkenyl diynes: method development and new mechanistic insights

XQ Zhu, P Hong, YX Zheng, YY Zhen, FL Hong… - Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Metal carbenes have proven to be one of the most important and useful intermediates in
organic synthesis, but catalytic asymmetric reactions involving metal carbenes are still …

In silico virtual screening approaches for anti-viral drug discovery

MS Murgueitio, M Bermudez, J Mortier… - Drug Discovery Today …, 2012 - Elsevier
Despite the considerable advances in medical and pharmaceutical research during the past
years, diseases caused by viruses have remained a major burden to public health. Virtual in …

Structure-based design, synthesis and validation of CD4-mimetic small molecule inhibitors of HIV-1 entry: conversion of a viral entry agonist to an antagonist

JR Courter, N Madani, J Sodroski… - Accounts of chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Conspectus This Account provides an overview of a multidisciplinary consortium focused on
structure-based strategies to devise small molecule antagonists of HIV-1 entry into human T …

Synthesis and biological evaluation of novel substituted pyrrolo [1, 2-a] quinoxaline derivatives as inhibitors of the human protein kinase CK2

J Guillon, M Le Borgne, C Rimbault, S Moreau… - European Journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
Herein we describe the synthesis and properties of substituted phenylaminopyrrolo [1, 2-a]
quinoxaline-carboxylic acid derivatives as a novel class of potent inhibitors of the human …

In vitro and in vivo suppression of GJB2 expression by RNA interference

Y Maeda, K Fukushima, K Nishizaki… - Human molecular …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Mutations in GJB2 (gap junction protein, beta-2) are the major cause of autosomal recessive
non-syndromic hearing loss. A few allele variants of this gene also cause autosomal …

Synthesis, antiviral potency, in vitro ADMET, and X-ray structure of potent CD4 mimics as entry inhibitors that target the Phe43 cavity of HIV-1 gp120

F Curreli, YD Kwon, DS Belov… - Journal of medicinal …, 2017 - ACS Publications
In our attempt to optimize the lead HIV-1 entry antagonist, NBD-11021, we present in this
study the rational design and synthesis of 60 new analogues and determination of their …