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Rogerio AP, Fontanari C, Borducchi E, Keller AC, Russo M, Soares EG, Albuquerque DA, Faccioli LH. Anti-inflammatory effects of Lafoensia pacari and ellagic acid in a murine model of asthma. Eur J Pharmacol 2007; 580:262-70. [PMID: 18021768 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejphar.2007.10.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2006] [Revised: 09/23/2007] [Accepted: 10/16/2007] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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We have shown that the ethanolic extract of Lafoensia pacari inhibits eosinophilic inflammation induced by Toxocara canis infection, and that ellagic acid is the secondary metabolite responsible for the anti-eosinophilic activity seen in a model of beta-glucan peritonitis. In the present study, we investigated the preventive and curative effects of L. pacari extract and ellagic acid on allergic lung inflammation using a murine model of ovalbumin-induced asthma. In bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, preventive (22-day) treatment with L. pacari (200 mg/kg) and ellagic acid (10 mg/kg) inhibited neutrophil counts (by 75% and 57%) and eosinophil counts (by 78% and 68%). L. pacari reduced IL-4 and IL-13 levels (by 67% and 73%), whereas ellagic acid reduced IL-4, IL-5 and IL-13 (by 67%, 88% and 85%). To investigate curative anti-inflammatory effects, we treated mice daily with ellagic acid (0.1, 1, or 10 mg/kg), also treating selected mice with L. pacari (200 mg/kg) from day 18 to day 22. The highest ellagic acid dose reduced neutrophil and eosinophil numbers (by 59% and 82%), inhibited IL-4, IL-5, and IL-13 (by 62%, 61%, and 49%). Neither L. pacari nor ellagic acid suppressed ovalbumin-induced airway hyperresponsiveness or cysteinyl leukotriene synthesis in lung homogenates. In mice treated with ellagic acid (10 mg/kg) or L. pacari (200 mg/kg) at 10 min after the second ovalbumin challenge, eosinophil numbers were 53% and 69% lower, respectively. Cytokine levels were unaffected by this treatment. L. pacari and ellagic acid are effective eosinophilic inflammation suppressors, suggesting a potential for treating allergies.
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- Alexandre P Rogerio
- Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Campus Universitário Trindade, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Florianópolis, SC, 88049-900, Brazil
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Georgiades SN, Clardy J. Synthetic libraries of tyrosine-derived bacterial metabolites. Bioorg Med Chem Lett 2007; 18:3117-21. [PMID: 17983747 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2007.10.058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2007] [Accepted: 10/16/2007] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The preparation of a collection of 131 small molecules, reminiscent of families of long chain N-acyl tyrosines, enamides and enol esters that have been isolated from heterologous expression of environmental DNA (eDNA) in Escherichia coli, is reported. The synthetic libraries of N-acyl tyrosines and their 3-keto counterparts were prepared via solid-phase routes, whereas the enamides and enol esters were synthesized in solution-phase.
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- Savvas N Georgiades
- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Peddibhotla S, Dang Y, Liu JO, Romo D. Simultaneous arming and structure/activity studies of natural products employing O-H insertions: an expedient and versatile strategy for natural products-based chemical genetics. J Am Chem Soc 2007; 129:12222-31. [PMID: 17880073 DOI: 10.1021/ja0733686] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The identification of "druggable" targets is an immediate opportunity and challenge in the post-genomic era. Natural products are enduring tools for basic cellular studies and leads for identifying medically relevant protein targets. However, their use for these studies is often hampered by limited quantities and a lack of selective and mild monofunctionalization reactions. The development of selective methods that could simultaneously equip the natural product with a reactive group for subsequent conjugation to reporter tags and provide important structure-activity relationship (SAR) information, requiring only a knowledge of functional groups present in the natural product, could significantly decrease the time between bioactive natural product isolation and target identification. Herein, we report such a strategy that enables simultaneous arming and SAR studies of alcohol-containing natural products involving both chemo- and site-selective ("chemosite" selective) and site-nonselective O-H insertion reactions with rhodium carbenoids derived from alkynyl diazo acetates. This strategy was applied to a diverse set of natural products, and general guidelines for predicting chemosite selectivity were formulated. A subsequent Sharpless-Hüisgen [3 + 2] cycloaddition reaction with the appended alkyne allows for attachment of a variety of reporter tags. Using this strategy, we synthesized a novel FK506-biotin conjugate that enabled pull-down of the entire "immunosuppressive complex" including FKBP12, calcineurins A and B, and calmodulin. In addition, the potential for a chemoselective but site-nonselective process was shown with both gibberellic acid methyl ester and brefeldin A using only achiral rhodium catalysts.
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Harvey AL. Natural products as a screening resource. Curr Opin Chem Biol 2007; 11:480-4. [PMID: 17884696 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2007.08.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 142] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2007] [Revised: 08/02/2007] [Accepted: 08/07/2007] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Natural products have been the most productive source of leads for new drugs, but they are currently out of fashion with the pharmaceutical industry. New approaches to sourcing novel compounds from untapped areas of biodiversity coupled with the technical advances in analytical techniques (such as microcoil NMR and linked LC-MS-NMR) have removed many of the difficulties in using natural products in screening campaigns. As the 'chemical space' occupied by natural products is both more varied and more drug-like than that of combinatorial chemical collections, synthetic and biosynthetic methods are being developed to produce screening libraries of natural product-like compounds. A renaissance of drug discovery inspired by natural products can be predicted.
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- Alan L Harvey
- Strathclyde Institute for Drug Research, University of Strathclyde, 27 Taylor Street, Glasgow G4 0NR, UK.
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Elnakady YA, Rohde M, Sasse F, Backes C, Keller A, Lenhof HP, Weissman KJ, Müller R. Evidence for the mode of action of the highly cytotoxic Streptomyces polyketide kendomycin. Chembiochem 2007; 8:1261-72. [PMID: 17592829 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200700050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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The macrocyclic polyketide kendomycin exhibits antiosteoporotic and antibacterial activity, as well as strong cytotoxicity against multiple human tumor cell lines. Despite the promise of this compound in several therapeutic areas, the cellular target(s) of kendomycin have not been identified to date. We have used a number of approaches, including microscopy, proteomics, and bioinformatics, to investigate the mode of action of kendomycin in mammalian cell cultures. In response to kendomycin treatment, human U-937 tumor cells exhibit depolarization of the mitochondrial membrane, caspase 3 activation, and DNA laddering, consistent with induction of the intrinsic apoptotic pathway. To elucidate possible apoptotic triggers, DIGE and MALDI-TOF were used to identify proteins that are differently regulated in U-937 cells relative to controls. Statistical analysis of the proteomics data by the new web-based application GeneTrail highlighted several significant changes in protein expression, most notably among proteasomal regulatory subunits. Overall, the profile of altered expression closely matches that observed with other tumor cell lines in response to proteasome inhibition. Direct assay in vitro further shows that kendomycin inhibits the chymotrypsin-like activity of the rabbit reticulocyte proteasome, with comparable efficacy to the established inhibitor MG-132. We have also demonstrated that ubiquitinylated proteins accumulate in kendomycin-treated U-937 cells, while vacuolization of the endoplasmic reticulum and mitochondrial swelling are induced in a second cell line derived from kangaroo rat epithelial (PtK(2)) cells, phenotypes classically associated with inhibition of the proteasome. This study therefore provides evidence that kendomycin mediates its cytotoxic effects, at least in part, through proteasome inhibition.
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- Yasser A Elnakady
- Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Saarland University, P.O. Box 151150, 66041 Saarbrücken, Germany
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Schmitz K, Haggarty SJ, McPherson OM, Clardy J, Koehler AN. Detecting binding interactions using microarrays of natural product extracts. J Am Chem Soc 2007; 129:11346-7. [PMID: 17718493 DOI: 10.1021/ja073965s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Katja Schmitz
- Department of Biological Chemistry, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Wilson RM, Danishefsky SJ. Small molecule natural products in the discovery of therapeutic agents: the synthesis connection. J Org Chem 2007; 71:8329-51. [PMID: 17064003 DOI: 10.1021/jo0610053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 294] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Natural products have been a rich source of agents of value in medicine. They have also inspired, at various levels, the fashioning of nonnatural agents of pharmaceutical import. Hitherto, these nonnatural derivatives have been primarily synthesized by manipulating the natural product. As a consequence of major innovations in the subscience of synthetic methodology, the capacity of synthesis to deal with molecules of considerable complexity has increased dramatically. In this paper, we show by example some total syntheses which draw from strategy-enabling advances in methodology. Moreover, we show how these capabilities can be used to discover and develop new agents of potential pharmaceutical value without recourse to the natural product itself.
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- Rebecca M Wilson
- Laboratory for Bioorganic Chemistry, Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, 1275 York Avenue, New York, New York 10021, USA
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Florian S, Hümmer S, Catarinella M, Mayer TU. Chemical genetics: reshaping biology through chemistry. HFSP JOURNAL 2007; 1:104-14. [PMID: 19404416 DOI: 10.2976/1.2752600] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2007] [Accepted: 05/28/2007] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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To understand biological processes, biologists typically study how perturbations of protein functions affect the phenotype. Protein activity in living cells can be influenced in many different ways: by manipulation of the genomic information, by injecting inhibitory antibodies, or, more recently, by the use of ribonucleic acid-medicated interference (RNAi). All these methods have proven to be extremely helpful, as they possess a high degree of specificity. However, they are less suitable for experiments requiring precise timing and fast reversibility of the perturbation. The advantage of small molecules is that they specifically interact with their target on a fast time scale and often in a reversible manner. In the last 15 years, this approach, termed "chemical genetics," has received a lot of attention. The term genetics pays tribute to the analogy between chemical genetics and the classic genetic approach, where manipulations at the gene level are used to draw conclusions about the function of the corresponding protein. Chemical genetics has only recently been used as a systematic approach in biology. The term was coined in the 1990's, when combinatorial chemistry was developed as a fast method to synthesize large compound libraries [Mitchison (1994) "Towards a pharmacological genetics," Chem. Biol. 1, 3-6; Schreiber (1998) "Chemical genetics resulting from a passion for synthetic organic chemistry," Bioorg. Med. Chem. 6, 1127-1152].
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- Stefan Florian
- Chemical Genetics, Independent Research Group, Department of Cell Biology, Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry, Am Klopferspitz 18, 82152, Martinsried, Germany
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Udwary DW, Zeigler L, Asolkar RN, Singan V, Lapidus A, Fenical W, Jensen PR, Moore BS. Genome sequencing reveals complex secondary metabolome in the marine actinomycete Salinispora tropica. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2007; 104:10376-81. [PMID: 17563368 PMCID: PMC1965521 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0700962104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 383] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2007] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Recent fermentation studies have identified actinomycetes of the marine-dwelling genus Salinispora as prolific natural product producers. To further evaluate their biosynthetic potential, we sequenced the 5,183,331-bp S. tropica CNB-440 circular genome and analyzed all identifiable secondary natural product gene clusters. Our analysis shows that S. tropica dedicates a large percentage of its genome ( approximately 9.9%) to natural product assembly, which is greater than previous Streptomyces genome sequences as well as other natural product-producing actinomycetes. The S. tropica genome features polyketide synthase systems of every known formally classified family, nonribosomal peptide synthetases, and several hybrid clusters. Although a few clusters appear to encode molecules previously identified in Streptomyces species, the majority of the 17 biosynthetic loci are novel. Specific chemical information about putative and observed natural product molecules is presented and discussed. In addition, our bioinformatic analysis not only was critical for the structure elucidation of the polyene macrolactam salinilactam A, but its structural analysis aided the genome assembly of the highly repetitive slm loci. This study firmly establishes the genus Salinispora as a rich source of drug-like molecules and importantly reveals the powerful interplay between genomic analysis and traditional natural product isolation studies.
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- Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute–Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Walnut Creek, CA 94598
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- Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute–Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Walnut Creek, CA 94598
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- *Scripps Institution of Oceanography and
- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0204; and
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Kwon SJ, Lee MY, Ku B, Sherman DH, Dordick JS. High-throughput, microarray-based synthesis of natural product analogues via in vitro metabolic pathway construction. ACS Chem Biol 2007; 2:419-25. [PMID: 17530734 DOI: 10.1021/cb700033s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The generation of biological diversity by engineering the biosynthetic gene assembly of metabolic pathway enzymes has led to a wide range of "unnatural" variants of natural products. However, current biosynthetic techniques do not allow the rapid manipulation of pathway components and are often fundamentally limited by the compatibility of new pathways, their gene expression, and the resulting biosynthetic products and pathway intermediates with cell growth and function. To overcome these limitations, we have developed an entirely in vitro approach to synthesize analogues of natural products in high throughput. Using several type III polyketide synthases (PKS) together with oxidative post-PKS tailoring enzymes, we performed 192 individual and multienzymatic reactions on a single glass microarray. Subsequent array-based screening with a human tyrosine kinase led to the identification of three compounds that acted as modest inhibitors in the low-micromolar range. This approach, therefore, enables the rapid construction of analogues of natural products as potential pharmaceutical lead compounds.
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- Seok Joon Kwon
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180, USA
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Lewis CA, Miller SJ. Site-selective derivatization and remodeling of erythromycin A by using simple peptide-based chiral catalysts. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2007; 45:5616-9. [PMID: 16858713 DOI: 10.1002/anie.200601490] [Citation(s) in RCA: 188] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Chad A Lewis
- Department of Chemistry, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
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Lam KS. New aspects of natural products in drug discovery. Trends Microbiol 2007; 15:279-89. [PMID: 17433686 DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2007.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 330] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2006] [Revised: 03/26/2007] [Accepted: 04/02/2007] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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During the past 15 years, most large pharmaceutical companies have decreased the screening of natural products for drug discovery in favor of synthetic compound libraries. Main reasons for this include the incompatibility of natural product libraries with high-throughput screening and the marginal improvement in core technologies for natural product screening in the late 1980s and early 1990 s. Recently, the development of new technologies has revolutionized the screening of natural products. Applying these technologies compensates for the inherent limitations of natural products and offers a unique opportunity to re-establish natural products as a major source for drug discovery. Examples of these new advances and technologies are described in this review.
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- Kin S Lam
- Nereus Pharmaceuticals Inc., 10480 Wateridge Circle, San Diego, CA 92121, USA.
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Lee TS, Das A, Khosla C. Structure-activity relationships of semisynthetic mumbaistatin analogs. Bioorg Med Chem 2007; 15:5207-18. [PMID: 17524653 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2007.05.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2007] [Accepted: 05/08/2007] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Mumbaistatin (1), a new anthraquinone natural product, is one of the most potent known inhibitors of hepatic glucose-6-phosphate translocase, an important target for the treatment of type II diabetes. Its availability, however, has been limited due to its extremely low yield from the natural source. Starting from DMAC (5, 3,8-dihydroxyanthraquinone-2-carboxylic acid), a structurally related polyketide product of engineered biosynthesis, we developed a facile semisynthetic method that afforded a variety of mumbaistatin analogs within five steps. This work was facilitated by the initial development of a DMAC overproduction system. In addition to reinforcing the biological significance of the anthraquinone moiety of mumbaistatin, several semisynthetic analogs were found to have low micromolar potency against the translocase in vitro. Two of them were also active in glucose release assays from primary hepatocytes. The synergistic combination of biosynthesis and synthesis is a promising avenue for the discovery of new bioactive substances.
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- Taek Soon Lee
- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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Rogerio AP, Cardoso CR, Fontanari C, Souza MA, Afonso-Cardoso SR, Silva EV, Koyama NS, Basei FL, Soares EG, Calixto JB, Stowell SR, Dias-Baruffi M, Faccioli LH. Anti-asthmatic potential of a D-galactose-binding lectin from Synadenium carinatum latex. Glycobiology 2007; 17:795-804. [PMID: 17522108 DOI: 10.1093/glycob/cwm053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Extracts from the plant Synadenium carinatum latex are widely and indiscriminately used in popular medicine to treat a great number of inflammatory disorders and although the mechanisms underlying these effects remain undefined, the lectin isolated from S. carinatum latex (ScLL) is thought to be in part responsible for these anti-inflammatory effects. In order to elucidate possible immunoregulatory activities of ScLL, we investigated the effects of ScLL administration in models of acute and chronic inflammation. Oral administration of ScLL significantly inhibited neutrophil and eosinophil extravasation in models of acute and chronic inflammation and reduced eosinophil and mononuclear blood counts during chronic inflammation. ScLL administration reduced IL(interleukin)-4 and IL-5 levels but increased interferon-gamma and IL-10 in an asthma inflammatory model, which suggested that it might induce a TH2 to TH1 shift in the adaptive immune response. ScLL also inhibited IkappaBalpha degradation, a negative regulator of proinflammatory NF-kappaB. Taken together, these results provide the first description of a single factor isolated from S. carinatum latex extract with immunoregulatory functions and suggest that ScLL may be useful in the treatment of allergic inflammatory disorders.
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- Alexandre P Rogerio
- Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Campus Universitário Trindade, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC 88049-900, Brazil
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Debreczeni JE, Bullock AN, Atilla GE, Williams DS, Bregman H, Knapp S, Meggers E. Ruthenium half-sandwich complexes bound to protein kinase Pim-1. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2007; 45:1580-5. [PMID: 16381041 DOI: 10.1002/anie.200503468] [Citation(s) in RCA: 198] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Judit E Debreczeni
- Oxford University, Centre for Structural Genomics, Botnar Research Centre, Oxford, UK
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Larsson J, Gottfries J, Muresan S, Backlund A. ChemGPS-NP: tuned for navigation in biologically relevant chemical space. JOURNAL OF NATURAL PRODUCTS 2007; 70:789-94. [PMID: 17439280 DOI: 10.1021/np070002y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Natural compounds are evolutionary selected and prevalidated by Nature, displaying a unique chemical diversity and a corresponding diversity of biological activities. These features make them highly interesting for studies of chemical biology, and in the pharmaceutical industry for development of new leads. Of utmost importance, for the discovery of new biologically active compounds, is the identification and charting of the corresponding biologically relevant chemical space. The primary key to this is the coverage of the natural products' chemical space. Here we introduce ChemGPS-NP, a new tool tuned for handling the chemical diversity encountered in natural products research, in contrast to previous tools focused on the much more restricted drug-like chemical space. The aim is to provide a framework for making compound classification and comparison more efficient and stringent, to identify volumes of chemical space related to particular biological activities, and to track changes in chemical properties due to, for example, evolutionary traits and modifications in biosynthesis. Physical-chemical properties not directly discernible from structural data can be discovered, making selection more efficient and increasing the probability of hit generation when screening natural compounds and analogues.
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- Josefin Larsson
- Division of Pharmacognosy, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, BMC, Uppsala University, Box 574, S-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden
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Frank B, Knauber J, Steinmetz H, Scharfe M, Blöcker H, Beyer S, Müller R. Spiroketal polyketide formation in Sorangium: identification and analysis of the biosynthetic gene cluster for the highly cytotoxic spirangienes. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007; 14:221-33. [PMID: 17317575 DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2006.11.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2006] [Revised: 11/20/2006] [Accepted: 11/27/2006] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Natural products constitute important lead structures in drug discovery. In bacteria, they are often synthesized by large, modular multienzyme complexes. Detailed analysis of the biosynthetic machinery should enable its directed engineering and production of desirable analogs. The myxobacterium Sorangium cellulosum So ce90 produces the cytotoxic spiroketal polyketide spirangien, for which we describe the identification and functional analysis of the biosynthetic pathway. The gene cluster spans 88 kb and encodes 7 type I polyketide synthases and additional enzymes such as a stand-alone thioesterase and 2 methyltransferases. Inactivation of two cytochrome P(450) monooxygenase genes resulted in the production of acyclic spirangien derivatives, providing direct evidence for the involvement of these enzymes in spiroketal formation. The presence of large DNA repeats is consistent with multiple rounds of gene duplication during the evolution of the biosynthetic gene locus.
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MESH Headings
- Acetals/chemistry
- Acetals/metabolism
- DNA, Bacterial/chemistry
- DNA, Bacterial/genetics
- Fatty Acids, Unsaturated/chemistry
- Fatty Acids, Unsaturated/metabolism
- Genes, Bacterial
- Macrolides/chemistry
- Macrolides/metabolism
- Molecular Structure
- Multigene Family
- Mutagenesis, Site-Directed
- Myxococcales/genetics
- Myxococcales/metabolism
- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular
- Polyketide Synthases/genetics
- Polyketide Synthases/metabolism
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization
- Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet
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- Bettina Frank
- Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Saarland University, 66041 Saarbrücken, Germany
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Balunas MJ, Jones WP, Chin YW, Mi Q, Farnsworth NR, Soejarto DD, Cordell GA, Swanson SM, Pezzuto JM, Chai HB, Kinghorn AD. Relationships between inhibitory activity against a cancer cell line panel, profiles of plants collected, and compound classes isolated in an anticancer drug discovery project. Chem Biodivers 2007; 3:897-915. [PMID: 17193321 DOI: 10.1002/cbdv.200690092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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In an attempt to determine the relationships between the plant profiles (country of collection, taxonomy, plant part) and the compound classes isolated with cytotoxic activity against a panel of human tumor cell lines, the data compiled from a 15-year anticancer drug-discovery project were subjected to an analysis of variance (ANOVA). The results indicate significant trends in cytotoxic activity relative to collection location, taxonomy, plant part, and compound classes isolated. Plant collections were made in tropical forests in six countries, with collections from Ecuador resulting in higher activity than those from Indonesia and Peru. Interestingly, collections from Florida were not statistically different than those from the countries with higher biodiversity. One hundred and forty-five families were represented in the collections, with the Clusiaceae, Elaeocarpaceae, Meliaceae, and Rubiaceae having low ED50 (half maximal effective dose) values. Especially active genera included Aglaia, Casearia, Exostema, Mallotus, and Trichosanthes. Roots and below-ground plant materials were significantly more active than above-ground materials. Cucurbitacins, flavaglines, anthraquinones, fatty acids, tropane alkaloids, lignans, and sesquiterpenoids were significantly more active than xanthones and oligorhamnosides. The results from this study should serve as a guide for future plant collection endeavors for anticancer drug discovery.
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- Marcy J Balunas
- Program for Collaborative Research in the Pharmaceutical Sciences and Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 833 South Wood Street (M/C 781), Chicago, IL 60612, USA
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Weissman KJ. Mutasynthesis – uniting chemistry and genetics for drug discovery. Trends Biotechnol 2007; 25:139-42. [PMID: 17306390 DOI: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2007.02.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2006] [Revised: 01/05/2007] [Accepted: 02/06/2007] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Mutasynthesis couples the power of chemical synthesis with molecular biology to generate derivatives of medicinally valuable, natural products. Recently, this technique has been exploited by Cambridge-based biotech company Biotica Technology Ltd, and their collaborators, to generate promising new variants of the polyketide anti-cancer compounds rapamycin and borrelidin.
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- Kira J Weissman
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1GA, UK.
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A recent publication is a great example of the inherent potential of exploring the chemical space inspired by natural products. Expanding access to chemical space through organic synthesis allows the discovery of valuable new small-molecule mediators of biological activity.
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- Lucy Pérez
- Laboratory for Bioorganic Chemistry, Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, New York, New York 10021, USA
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Darwiche N, El-Banna S, Gali-Muhtasib H. Cell cycle modulatory and apoptotic effects of plant-derived anticancer drugs in clinical use or development. Expert Opin Drug Discov 2007; 2:361-79. [DOI: 10.1517/17460441.2.3.361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Winssinger N, Harris JL. Microarray-based functional protein profiling using peptide nucleic acid-encoded libraries. Expert Rev Proteomics 2007; 2:937-47. [PMID: 16307522 DOI: 10.1586/14789450.2.6.937] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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The availability of complete genome sequences from numerous organisms has provided investigators with the challenge of assigning physiologic functions to the encoded gene products. To facilitate this process, multiple technologies have been developed to profile the transcriptome and the proteome, including methods to monitor the function of enzymes in complex biologic systems. These methods typically target specific classes of enzymes and attempt to correlate the enzymatic activity with the specific phenotype of interest. Here, technologies to measure enzymatic activity on a subproteomic scale are reviewed, including the authors' own efforts, which are based on self-assembled microarrays utilizing peptide nucleic acid-encoded small-molecule libraries.
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- Nicolas Winssinger
- Institut de Science et Ingénierie Supramoléculaires, Organic & Bioorganic Chemistry Laboratory, Université Louis Pasteur, 8 allée Gaspard Monge, 67000 Strasbourg, France.
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Yin J, Straight PD, Hrvatin S, Dorrestein PC, Bumpus SB, Jao C, Kelleher NL, Kolter R, Walsh CT. Genome-Wide High-Throughput Mining of Natural-Product Biosynthetic Gene Clusters by Phage Display. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007; 14:303-12. [PMID: 17379145 DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2007.01.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2006] [Revised: 12/26/2006] [Accepted: 01/09/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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We have developed a phage-display method for high-throughput mining of bacterial gene clusters encoding the natural-product biosynthetic enzymes, polyketide synthases (PKSs) and nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs). This method uses the phosphopantetheinyl transferase activity of Sfp to specifically biotinylate NRPS and PKS carrier-protein domains expressed from a library of random genome fragments fused to a gene encoding a phage coat protein. Subsequently, the biotinylated phages are enriched through selection on streptavidin-coated plates. Using this method, we isolated phage clones from the multiple NRPS and PKS gene clusters encoded in the genomes of Bacillus subtilis and Myxococcus xanthus. Due to the rapid and unambiguous identification of carrier domains, this method will provide an efficient tool for high-throughput cloning of NRPS and PKS gene clusters from many individual bacterial genomes and multigenome environmental DNA.
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- Jun Yin
- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Gassner NC, Tamble CM, Bock JE, Cotton N, White KN, Tenney K, St. Onge RP, Proctor MJ, Giaever G, Davis RW, Crews P, Holman TR, Lokey RS. Accelerating the discovery of biologically active small molecules using a high-throughput yeast halo assay. JOURNAL OF NATURAL PRODUCTS 2007; 70:383-90. [PMID: 17291044 PMCID: PMC2533267 DOI: 10.1021/np060555t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a powerful model system for the study of basic eukaryotic cell biology, has been used increasingly as a screening tool for the identification of bioactive small molecules. We have developed a novel yeast toxicity screen that is easily automated and compatible with high-throughput screening robotics. The new screen is quantitative and allows inhibitory potencies to be determined, since the diffusion of the sample provides a concentration gradient and a corresponding toxicity halo. The efficacy of this new screen was illustrated by testing materials including 3104 compounds from the NCI libraries, 167 marine sponge crude extracts, and 149 crude marine-derived fungal extracts. There were 46 active compounds among the NCI set. One very active extract was selected for bioactivity-guided fractionation, resulting in the identification of crambescidin 800 as a potent antifungal agent.
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- To whom correspondence should be addressed. P.C., Tel: 831-459-2603, Fax: 831-459-4197, ; T.R.H., Tel: 831-459-5884, Fax: 831-459-2935, ; R.S.L., Tel: 831-459-1307, Fax: 831-459-2935,
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- To whom correspondence should be addressed. P.C., Tel: 831-459-2603, Fax: 831-459-4197, ; T.R.H., Tel: 831-459-5884, Fax: 831-459-2935, ; R.S.L., Tel: 831-459-1307, Fax: 831-459-2935,
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- To whom correspondence should be addressed. P.C., Tel: 831-459-2603, Fax: 831-459-4197, ; T.R.H., Tel: 831-459-5884, Fax: 831-459-2935, ; R.S.L., Tel: 831-459-1307, Fax: 831-459-2935,
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Kellenberger E, Springael JY, Parmentier M, Hachet-Haas M, Galzi JL, Rognan D. Identification of Nonpeptide CCR5 Receptor Agonists by Structure-based Virtual Screening. J Med Chem 2007; 50:1294-303. [PMID: 17311371 DOI: 10.1021/jm061389p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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A three-dimensional model of the chemokine receptor CCR5 has been built to fulfill structural peculiarities of its alpha-helix bundle and to distinguish known CCR5 antagonists from randomly chosen drug-like decoys. In silico screening of a library of 1.6 million commercially available compounds against the CCR5 model by sequential filters (drug-likeness, 2-D pharmacophore, 3-D docking, scaffold clustering) yielded a hit list of 59 compounds, out of which 10 exhibited a detectable binding affinity to the CCR5 receptor. Unexpectedly, most binders tested in a functional assay were shown to be agonists of the CCR5 receptor. A follow-up database query based on similarity to the most potent binders identified three new CCR5 agonists. Despite a moderate affinity of all nonpeptide ligands for the CCR5 receptor, one of the agonists was shown to promote efficient receptor internalization, which is a process therapeutically favorable for protection against HIV-1 infection.
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Timmons SC, Mosher RH, Knowles SA, Jakeman DL. Exploiting nucleotidylyltransferases to prepare sugar nucleotides. Org Lett 2007; 9:857-60. [PMID: 17286408 DOI: 10.1021/ol0630853] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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[reaction: see text] Enzymatic approaches to prepare sugar nucleotides are gaining in importance and offer several advantages over chemical synthesis including high yields and stereospecificity. We report the cloning, expression, and purification of two new wild-type thymidylyltransferases and observed catalysis with a wide variety of substrates. Significant product inhibition was not observed with the enzymes studied over a 24 h period, enabling the efficient preparation of 15 sugar nucleotides, clearly demonstrating the synthetic utility of these biocatalysts.
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- Shannon C Timmons
- Department of Chemistry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., Canada B3H 4J3
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Fabbri D, Dettori MA, Delogu G, Forni A, Casalone G, Palmieri G, Pisano M, Rozzo C. 2,2′-Dihydroxy-3,3′-dimethoxy-5,5′-dimethyl-6,6′-dibromo-1,1′-biphenyl: preparation, resolution, structure and biological activity. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tetasy.2007.01.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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López SN, Ramallo IA, Sierra MG, Zacchino SA, Furlan RLE. Chemically engineered extracts as an alternative source of bioactive natural product-like compounds. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2007; 104:441-4. [PMID: 17192401 PMCID: PMC1766403 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0608438104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2006] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The access to libraries of molecules with interesting biomolecular properties is a limiting step in the drug discovery process. By virtue of a long molecular evolution process, natural products are recognized as biologically validated starting points in structural space for library development. We introduce here a strategy to generate natural product-like libraries. A semisynthetic mixture of compounds was produced by diversification of a natural product extract through the chemical transformation of common chemical functionalities in natural products into chemical functionalities rarely found in nature. The resulting mixture showed antifungal activity against Candida albicans, whereas the starting extract did not show such activity. Bioguided fractionation led to the isolation of a previously undescribed active semisynthetic pyrazole. The result illustrates how biological activity can be generated by designed chemical diversification of a natural product mixture, and represents the proof of principle of an alternative strategy for producing natural product-like libraries from natural products libraries.
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- Silvia N. López
- Farmacognosia, Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Suipacha 531, S2002LRK Rosario, Argentina; and
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- Farmacognosia, Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Suipacha 531, S2002LRK Rosario, Argentina; and
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- Instituto de Química Orgánica de Síntesis (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas de Argentina–Universidad Nacional de Rosario), Suipacha 531, S2002LRK Rosario, Argentina
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- Farmacognosia, Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Suipacha 531, S2002LRK Rosario, Argentina; and
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- Farmacognosia, Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Suipacha 531, S2002LRK Rosario, Argentina; and
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Fenical W, Jensen PR. Developing a new resource for drug discovery: marine actinomycete bacteria. Nat Chem Biol 2006; 2:666-73. [PMID: 17108984 DOI: 10.1038/nchembio841] [Citation(s) in RCA: 615] [Impact Index Per Article: 34.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- William Fenical
- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0204, USA.
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Cancer drug development is leading the way in exploiting molecular biological and genetic information to develop "personalized" medicine. The new paradigm is to develop agents that target the precise molecular pathology driving the progression of individual cancers. Drug developers have benefited from decades of academic cancer research and from investment in genomics, genetics and automation; their success is exemplified by high-profile drugs such as Herceptin (trastuzumab), Gleevec (imatinib), Tarceva (erlotinib) and Avastin (bevacizumab). However, only 5% of cancer drugs entering clinical trials reach marketing approval. Cancer remains a high unmet medical need, and many potential cancer targets remain undrugged. In this review we assess the status of the discovery and development of small-molecule cancer therapeutics. We show how chemical biology approaches offer techniques for interconnecting elements of the traditional linear progression from gene to drug, thereby providing a basis for increasing speed and success in cancer drug discovery.
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- Ian Collins
- Cancer Research UK Centre for Cancer Therapeutics, The Institute of Cancer Research, Haddow Laboratories, 15 Cotswold Road, Sutton, Surrey SM2 5NG, UK.
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In biological networks, any manifestations of behaviors substantially 'deviant' from the predictions of continuous-deterministic classical chemical kinetics (CCK) are typically ascribed to systems with complex dynamics and/or a small number of molecules. Here we show that in certain cases such restrictions are not obligatory for CCK to be largely incorrect. By systematically identifying properties that may cause significant divergences between CCK and the more accurate discrete-stochastic chemical master equation (CME) system descriptions, we comprehensively characterize potential CCK failure patterns in biological settings, including consequences of the assertion that CCK is closer to the 'mode' rather than the 'average' of stochastic reaction dynamics, as generally perceived. We demonstrate that mechanisms underlying such nonclassical effects can be very simple, are common in cellular networks and result in often unintuitive system behaviors. This highlights the importance of deviant effects in biotechnologically or biomedically relevant applications, and suggests some approaches to diagnosing them in situ.
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- Michael S Samoilov
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Bioengineering, University of California at Berkeley, Center for Synthetic Biology, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
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- Stephen Hanessian
- Department of Chemistry, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, Succursale Centre-Ville, Montréal, QC, H3C3J7, Canada.
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For the past five decades, the need for new antibiotics has been met largely by semisynthetic tailoring of natural product scaffolds discovered in the middle of the 20(th) century. More recently, however, advances in technology have sparked a resurgence in the discovery of natural product antibiotics from bacterial sources. In particular, efforts have refocused on finding new antibiotics from old sources (for example, streptomycetes) and new sources (for example, other actinomycetes, cyanobacteria and uncultured bacteria). This has resulted in several newly discovered antibiotics with unique scaffolds and/or novel mechanisms of action, with the potential to form a basis for new antibiotic classes addressing bacterial targets that are currently underexploited.
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- Jon Clardy
- Department of Biological Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Van Wagoner RM, Clardy J. FeeM, an N-acyl amino acid synthase from an uncultured soil microbe: structure, mechanism, and acyl carrier protein binding. Structure 2006; 14:1425-35. [PMID: 16962973 DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2006.07.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2006] [Revised: 07/09/2006] [Accepted: 07/16/2006] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Attempts to access antibiotics by capturing biosynthetic genes and pathways directly from environmental DNA, which is overwhelmingly derived from uncultured bacteria, have revealed a large and previously unknown family of N-acyl amino acid synthases (NASs). The structure of the NAS FeeM reveals structural similarity to the GCN5-related N-acyl transferases and acylhomoserine lactone synthases. The overall structure has a central beta sheet with alpha helices on both sides. A bound product at a cleft in the beta sheet identifies the active site and the structural basis for catalysis, and sequence conservation in this region indicates a bias for recognition over speed. FeeM interacts with an acyl carrier protein (FeeL), and the structure, mutagenesis, and enzymatic measurements reveal that a small hydrophobic pocket in alpha helix 5 dominates binding of FeeM to FeeL. The structural and mechanistic analyses suggest that the products of FeeM could be bacterial signaling agents.
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- Ryan M Van Wagoner
- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Zhao F, Zhao Q, Blount KF, Han Q, Tor Y, Hermann T. Molecular recognition of RNA by neomycin and a restricted neomycin derivative. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2006; 44:5329-34. [PMID: 16037995 DOI: 10.1002/anie.200500903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Fang Zhao
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, 92093, USA
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de Fátima A, Marquissolo C, de Albuquerque S, Carraro-Abrahão AA, Pilli RA. Trypanocidal activity of 5,6-dihydropyran-2-ones against free trypomastigotes forms of Trypanosoma cruzi. Eur J Med Chem 2006; 41:1210-3. [PMID: 16815596 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2006.05.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2005] [Revised: 05/23/2006] [Accepted: 05/25/2006] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Sixteen 5,6-dihydro-2H-pyran-2-ones were evaluated in in vitro assay against trypomastigotes forms of Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative agent of Chagas' disease. A structure-activity relationship study (SAR) allowed us to establish the relevant structural features for the trypanocidal activity of goniothalamin analogues against T. cruzi. In fact, non-natural form of goniothalamin (ent-1) was threefold more potent than the natural one (1). In addition, we have identified analogues 9 and 10 (both displaying S configuration) as the highest potent compounds against T. cruzi with IC50=0.12 and 0.09 mM (IC50 value for crystal violet was 0.08 mM) whereas significantly lower toxicities were observed when these compounds were evaluated under LLC-MK2 lineage cells (1.38 and 4.89 mM, respectively). In addition, epoxides derivatives 12 and ent-12 were shown to be more potent than the corresponding stereoisomers 2 and ent-2 and non-natural argentilactone (ent-3, IC50=0.47 mM) was twofold more potent than natural argentilactone (3, IC50=0.94 mM).
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- Angelo de Fátima
- Departamento de Química Orgânica, Instituto de Química, UNICAMP, CP 6154, 13084-971 Campinas, SP, Brazil
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Ferreira CV, Justo GZ, Souza ACS, Queiroz KCS, Zambuzzi WF, Aoyama H, Peppelenbosch MP. Natural compounds as a source of protein tyrosine phosphatase inhibitors: application to the rational design of small-molecule derivatives. Biochimie 2006; 88:1859-73. [PMID: 17010496 DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2006.08.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2006] [Accepted: 08/25/2006] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Reversible phosphorylation of tyrosine residues is a key regulatory mechanism for numerous cellular events. Protein tyrosine kinases and protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs) have a pivotal role in regulating both normal cell physiology and pathophysiology. Accordingly, deregulated activity of both protein tyrosine kinases and PTPs is involved in the development of numerous congenitically inherited and acquired human diseases, prompting obvious pharmaceutical and academic research interest. The development of compound libraries with higher selective PTP inhibitory activity has been bolstered by the realization that many natural products have such activity and thus are interesting biologically lead compounds, which properties are widely exploited. In addition, more rational approaches have focused on the incorporation of phosphotyrosine mimetics into specific peptide templates (peptidomimetic backbones). Additional factors furthering discovery as well as therapeutic application of new bioactive molecules are the integration of functional genomics, cell biology, structural biology, drug design, molecular screening and chemical diversity. Together, all these factors will lead to new avenues to treat clinical disease based on PTP inhibition.
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- Carmen V Ferreira
- Laboratory of Cell Signaling, Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), CP 6109, CEP 13083-970, Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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Prabhakar KR, Veeresh VP, Vipan K, Sudheer M, Priyadarsini KI, Satish RBSS, Unnikrishnan MK. Bioactivity-guided fractionation of Coronopus didymus: A free radical scavenging perspective. PHYTOMEDICINE : INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHYTOTHERAPY AND PHYTOPHARMACOLOGY 2006; 13:591-5. [PMID: 16920515 DOI: 10.1016/j.phymed.2005.07.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2005] [Accepted: 07/04/2005] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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The whole plant aqueous extract of Coronopus didymus Linn. was fractionated on the basis of polarity and resulting fractions were evaluated for free radical scavenging ability. The most non-polar fraction (CDF1) was found to be more active than other fractions in scavenging DPPH, ABTS(-), nitric oxide and hydroxyl radicals in steady-state conditions. Stop-flow spectrometric studies showed 58.13% inhibition of 100 microM DPPH at a concentration of 150 microg/ml of CDF1 in 1000 s and 32.31% scavenging of 960 microM ABTS(-) at a concentration of 300 microg/ml of CDF1 in 100 s. The reaction of CDF1 with hydroxyl radicals produced by pulse radiolysis showed a transient spectrum with absorption peaks at 320, 390 and 400 nm, indicating the presence of flavonoids/related components. Competition kinetics with potassium thiocyanate against scavenging of hydroxyl radicals showed a reactivity of 0.1326 against thiocyanate. CDF1 also protected against Fenton reagent-induced calf thymus DNA damage at a concentration of 400 mg/ml indicating it to be the most potent fraction.
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- K R Prabhakar
- Department of Pharmacology, Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Manipal - 576104, India
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Lewis CA, Miller SJ. Site-Selective Derivatization and Remodeling of Erythromycin A by Using Simple Peptide-Based Chiral Catalysts. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2006. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.200601490] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Keller TH, Pichota A, Yin Z. A practical view of ‘druggability’. Curr Opin Chem Biol 2006; 10:357-61. [PMID: 16814592 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2006.06.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 193] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2006] [Accepted: 06/15/2006] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The introduction of Lipinski's 'Rule of Five' has initiated a profound shift in the thinking paradigm of medicinal chemists. Understanding the difference between biologically active small molecules and drugs became a priority in the drug discovery process, and the importance of addressing pharmacokinetic properties early during lead optimization is a clear result. These concepts of 'drug-likeness' and 'druggability' have been extended to proteins and genes for target identification and selection. How should these concepts be integrated practically into the drug discovery process? This review summarizes the recent advances in the field and examines the usefulness of 'the rules of the game' in practice from a medicinal chemist's standpoint.
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- Thomas H Keller
- Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases, 10 Biopolis Road, #05-01 Chromos, 138670 Singapore.
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Cos P, Vlietinck AJ, Berghe DV, Maes L. Anti-infective potential of natural products: how to develop a stronger in vitro 'proof-of-concept'. JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY 2006; 106:290-302. [PMID: 16698208 DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2006.04.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 742] [Impact Index Per Article: 41.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2006] [Revised: 04/01/2006] [Accepted: 04/03/2006] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Natural products, either as pure compounds or as standardized plant extracts, provide unlimited opportunities for new drug leads because of the unmatched availability of chemical diversity. To secure this, a number of pivotal quality standards need to be set at the level of extract processing and primary evaluation in pharmacological screening models. This review provides a number of recommendations that will help to define a more sound 'proof-of-concept' for antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral and antiparasitic potential in natural products. An integrated panel of pathogens is proposed for antimicrobial profiling, using accessible standard in vitro experimental procedures, endpoint parameters and efficacy criteria. Primary requirements include: (1) use of reference strains or fully characterized clinical isolates, (2) in vitro models on the whole organism and if possible cell-based, (3) evaluation of selectivity by parallel cytotoxicity testing and/or integrated profiling against unrelated micro-organisms, (4) adequately broad dose range, enabling dose-response curves, (5) stringent endpoint criteria with IC(50)-values generally below 100microug/ml for extracts and below 25microM for pure compounds, (6) proper preparation, storage and in-test processing of extracts, (7) inclusion of appropriate controls in each in vitro test replicate (blanks, infected and reference controls) and (8) follow-up of in vitro activity ('hit'-status) in matching animal models ('lead'-status).
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- Paul Cos
- Laboratory for Microbiology, Parasitology and Hygiene (LMPH), Faculty of Pharmaceutical, Biomedical and Veterinary Sciences, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Antwerp, Belgium.
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Davies JW, Glick M, Jenkins JL. Streamlining lead discovery by aligning in silico and high-throughput screening. Curr Opin Chem Biol 2006; 10:343-51. [PMID: 16822701 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2006.06.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2006] [Accepted: 06/21/2006] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Lead discovery in the pharmaceutical environment is largely an industrial-scale process in which it is typical to screen 1-5 million compounds in a matter of weeks using High Throughput Screening (HTS). This process is a very costly endeavor. Typically a HTS campaign of 1 million compounds will cost anywhere from $500000 to $1000000. There is consequently a great deal of pressure to maximize the return on investment by finding fast and more effective ways to screen. A panacea that has emerged over the past few years to help address this issue is in silico screening. In silico screening is now incorporated in all areas of lead discovery; from target identification and library design, to hit analysis and compound profiling. However, as lead discovery has evolved over the past few years, so has the role of in silico screening.
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- John W Davies
- Lead Discovery Center, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research Inc, 250 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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Ye M, Guo H, Guo H, Han J, Guo D. Simultaneous determination of cytotoxic bufadienolides in the Chinese medicine ChanSu by high-performance liquid chromatography coupled with photodiode array and mass spectrometry detections. J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci 2006; 838:86-95. [PMID: 16723285 DOI: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2006.04.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2006] [Revised: 04/13/2006] [Accepted: 04/13/2006] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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ChanSu (toad venom) is a traditional Chinese medicine for the treatment of serious liver and gastric cancers. The major cytotoxic compounds in ChanSu are bufadienolides. In this paper, a strategy combining qualitative LC/MS analysis and quantitative HPLC determination of major bufadienolides was used for global quality control of ChanSu crude drug. Majority of the bufadienolides in methanol extract of ChanSu were unambiguously characterized by high-performance liquid chromatography coupled with atmospheric pressure chemical ionization tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC/APCI-MS/MS), and by comparing with pure compounds. In addition, eight major bufadienolides were simultaneously determined in one single HPLC run within 30 min with photodiode array detection (DAD). All compounds showed good linearity in a wide concentration range, and their limits of detection (LOD) were around 1 ng. Thus, > 95% of the bufadienolides in ChanSu could be characterized, and > 90% of them were quantitated. The established method is rapid, simple and sensitive, and could be used for the routine analysis of ChanSu crude drug and its preparations. This research sets a good example for the comprehensive quality control of traditional medicine.
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- Min Ye
- The State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Xueyuan Road 38, Beijing 100083, PR China
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Efficient library design is an ongoing challenge for investigators seeking novel ligands for proteins, whether for drug discovery or chemical biology. Strategies that add neglected chemistry or exclude unproductive compounds are two dominant recent themes, as is a growing awareness of molecular complexity and its implications. The choice of how complex molecules in screening libraries should be often amounts to how big they should be. Small, simple molecules have lower affinities and must be screened at high concentration, but they will also have higher hit rates. Larger compounds, on the other hand, will often more closely resemble final drugs, but because they are more highly functionalized and specific, they will have much lower hit rates. The best general-purpose screening libraries may well be those of intermediate complexity that are free of artifact-causing nuisance compounds.
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- John J Irwin
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, 1700 4th St, San Francisco, CA 94143-2550, USA.
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Shipe WD, Sorensen EJ. Convergent, Enantioselective Syntheses of Guanacastepenes A and E Featuring a Selective Cyclobutane Fragmentation1. J Am Chem Soc 2006; 128:7025-35. [PMID: 16719483 DOI: 10.1021/ja060847g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The evolution of a convergent strategy that led to efficient, enantioselective syntheses of both natural (+)- and unnatural (-)-guanacastepene E and formal total syntheses of (+)- and (-)-guanacastepene A is described. A union of five- and six-membered ring intermediates by an efficient pi-allyl Stille cross-coupling reaction was followed by an intramolecular enone-olefin [2 + 2] photocycloaddition and a stereoelectronically controlled, reductive fragmentation of the resulting cyclobutyl ketone. The latter two transformations enabled controlled formation of the C-11 quaternary stereocenter and the central seven-membered ring of the guanacastepenes. An enantiospecific synthesis of the functionalized five-membered ring vinyl stannane from the monoterpene R-(-)-carvone featuring a carbon-carbon bond forming ring contraction was also developed.
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- William D Shipe
- Frick Chemical Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544-1009, USA
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Pla D, Marchal A, Olsen CA, Francesch A, Cuevas C, Albericio F, Alvarez M. Synthesis and Structure−Activity Relationship Study of Potent Cytotoxic Analogues of the Marine Alkaloid Lamellarin D. J Med Chem 2006; 49:3257-68. [PMID: 16722644 DOI: 10.1021/jm0602458] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The marine alkaloid, Lamellarin D (Lam-D), has shown potent cytotoxicity in numerous cancer cell lines and was recently identified as a potent topoisomerase I inhibitor. A library of open lactone analogues of Lam-D was prepared from a methyl 5,6-dihydropyrrolo[2,1-a]isoquinoline-3-carboxylate scaffold (1) by introducing various aryl groups through sequential and regioselective bromination, followed by Pd(0)-catalyzed Suzuki cross-coupling chemistry. The compounds were obtained in a 24-44% overall yield, and tested in a panel of three human tumor cell lines, MDA-MB-231 (breast), A-549 (lung), and HT-29 (colon), to evaluate their cytotoxic potential. From these data, the SAR study concluded that more than 75% of the open-chain Lam-D analogues tested showed cytotoxicity in a low micromolar GI50 range.
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- Daniel Pla
- Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona Science Park, University of Barcelona, Josep Samitier 1-5, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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La Clair JJ. Cellular routines in the synthesis of cyclic peptide probes. Tetrahedron 2006. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2006.01.113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Song A, Wu L, Ho L, Lam KS. Facile solid-phase synthesis of 2,3-disubstituted 6H-pyrano[2,3-f]benzimidazole-6-ones. Tetrahedron 2006. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2006.02.064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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