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Canales CSC, Pavan AR, Dos Santos JL, Pavan FR. In silico drug design strategies for discovering novel tuberculosis therapeutics. Expert Opin Drug Discov 2024; 19:471-491. [PMID: 38374606 DOI: 10.1080/17460441.2024.2319042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2023] [Accepted: 02/12/2024] [Indexed: 02/21/2024]
Abstract
INTRODUCTION Tuberculosis remains a significant concern in global public health due to its intricate biology and propensity for developing antibiotic resistance. Discovering new drugs is a protracted and expensive endeavor, often spanning over a decade and incurring costs in the billions. However, computer-aided drug design (CADD) has surfaced as a nimbler and more cost-effective alternative. CADD tools enable us to decipher the interactions between therapeutic targets and novel drugs, making them invaluable in the quest for new tuberculosis treatments. AREAS COVERED In this review, the authors explore recent advancements in tuberculosis drug discovery enabled by in silico tools. The main objectives of this review article are to highlight emerging drug candidates identified through in silico methods and to provide an update on the therapeutic targets associated with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. EXPERT OPINION These in silico methods have not only streamlined the drug discovery process but also opened up new horizons for finding novel drug candidates and repositioning existing ones. The continued advancements in these fields hold great promise for more efficient, ethical, and successful drug development in the future.
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- Christian S Carnero Canales
- School of Pharmaceutical Science, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Araraquara, Brazil
- School of Pharmacy, biochemistry and biotechnology, Santa Maria Catholic University, Arequipa, Perú
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- School of Pharmaceutical Science, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Araraquara, Brazil
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- School of Pharmaceutical Science, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Araraquara, Brazil
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Farghaly TA, Alosaimy AM, Al-Qurashi NT, Masaret GS, Abdulwahab HG. The most Recent Compilation of Reactions of Enaminone Derivatives with various Amine Derivatives to Generate Biologically Active Compounds. Mini Rev Med Chem 2024; 24:793-843. [PMID: 37711104 DOI: 10.2174/1389557523666230913164038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2023] [Revised: 07/23/2023] [Accepted: 07/24/2023] [Indexed: 09/16/2023]
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Heterocyclic derivatives serve as the fundamental components of both natural and synthetic drugs. Enaminones play a crucial role as foundational units in the synthesis of numerous bioactive heterocyclic compounds, including pyrazoles, pyridines, oxazoles, isoxazoles, as well as fused heterocyclic structures like indoles, carbazoles, quinolines, acridines, and phenanthridines. These diverse heterocyclic rings are well-known for their various therapeutic activities, encompassing anticancer, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, antidepressant, and antiviral properties. By reacting with nitrogenbased nucleophiles, enaminones can generate bioactive azoles, azines, and their fused systems. This study focuses on the recent advancements in enaminone reactions with (a) nitrogen-based nucleophiles, such as aliphatic amines, derivatives of aniline, heterocyclic amines, hydroxylamine, hydrazine derivatives, guanidine derivatives, urea, and thiourea derivatives, and (b) nitrogen-based electrophiles, such as diazonium salts. These reactions have led to the synthesis of a wide range of bioactive fused heterocyclic compounds from 2010 to the end of 2022.
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- Thoraya A Farghaly
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Applied Science, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah Almukaramah, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Applied Science, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah Almukaramah, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Basic Science, University College in Adam, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah Almukkarramah, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Applied Science, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah Almukaramah, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Design, Faculty of Pharmacy (Girls), Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt
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Ahmed K, Choudhary MI, Saleem RSZ. Heterocyclic pyrimidine derivatives as promising antibacterial agents. Eur J Med Chem 2023; 259:115701. [PMID: 37591149 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2023.115701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2023] [Revised: 07/18/2023] [Accepted: 07/29/2023] [Indexed: 08/19/2023]
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Antibiotic resistance is a growing public health concern. The quest to understand the underlying mechanisms of drug resistance needs to be accompanied by an expanded arsenal of drugs. This calls for the development of new compounds with anti-bacterial properties. The ease of functionalization of the pyrimidine core, to produce structurally distinct compound libraries, has made pyrimidine a privileged structure for identifying anti-bacterial hits. The activity of pyrimidine derivatives can be attributed to the various subunits linked with the main core, especially at C-2 or C-4 or C-6. Particularly, presence of NH2 attached to C-2 of the pyrimidine nucleus has been shown to enhance the anti-bacterial activity against pathogenic Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. The diversity of synthetic routes used for the synthesis of such compounds, the reported biological activities, and a growing need to develop novel anti-bacterial agents warrant a review that presents recent reports on the synthesis and anti-bacterial activities of pyrimidine-containing compounds.
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- Kainat Ahmed
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, SBASSE, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Sector-U, DHA, Lahore, 54792, Pakistan
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- Dr. Panjwani Center for Molecular Medicine and Drug Research, International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences, University of Karachi, Karachi, 75270, Pakistan
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, SBASSE, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Sector-U, DHA, Lahore, 54792, Pakistan.
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El-Helw EAE, Asran M, Azab ME, Helal MH, Ramadan SK. Synthesis, Cytotoxic, and Antioxidant Activity of Some Benzoquinoline-Based Heterocycles. Polycycl Aromat Compd 2023:1-13. [DOI: 10.1080/10406638.2023.2270767] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2023] [Accepted: 10/08/2023] [Indexed: 02/19/2024]
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- Eman A. E. El-Helw
- Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
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- Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Helwan University, Ain-Helwan, Cairo, Egypt
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- Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
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- Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Helwan University, Ain-Helwan, Cairo, Egypt
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- Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
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Baren MH, Ibrahim SA, Al-Rooqi MM, Ahmed SA, El-Gamil MM, Hekal HA. A new class of anticancer activity with computational studies for a novel bioactive aminophosphonates based on pyrazole moiety. Sci Rep 2023; 13:14680. [PMID: 37673913 PMCID: PMC10482913 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-40265-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2023] [Accepted: 08/08/2023] [Indexed: 09/08/2023] Open
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The present study involves synthesis a new series of α-aminophosphonates 2a-f and 4a-d derivatives in good yield with a simple workup via Kabachnik-Fields reaction in the presence of lithium perchlorate as Lewis acid catalyst. All the newly synthesized compounds were confirmed using various physical, spectroscopic, and analytical data. The in vitro anticancer activities of each compound were evaluated against colorectal carcinoma Colon cancer (HCT-116) and Epdermoid carcinoma (HEP2) and also Human lung fibroblast normal cell line (WI38) compared with Doxorubicin. The results showed that Compounds 2a, 4b and 4d exhibited more potent inhibitory activity for Epdermoid Carcinoma (HEP2) compared with doxorubicin. For colon carcinoma cells (HCT-116) Compounds 2a, 2d and 4b gave the strongest activity among all compounds compared with doxorubicin. Moreover, all designed structures were docked into the active site of VEGFR2 and FGFR1 proteins. The result reveals that compound 2b and have the strongest inhibitory activity of the VEGFR2 and FGFR1 proteins indicating that these substances might conceivably operate as VEGFR2 and FGFR1 inhibitors and hence might take role in anticancer activities with various binding interactions. The 3D-QSAR models produced strong statistical results since they were defined by PLS factors 4 and confirmed by parameters as R2, R2 CV, Stability, F-value, P-value, RMSE, Q2, and Pearson-r.
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- Mohamed H Baren
- Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Tanta University, Tanta, 31527, Egypt
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- Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Tanta University, Tanta, 31527, Egypt.
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, 21955, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, 21955, Saudi Arabia.
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- Department of Toxic and Narcotic Drug, Forensic Medicine, Mansoura Laboratory, Medico legal Organization, Ministry of Justice, Mansoura, Egypt
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- Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Tanta University, Tanta, 31527, Egypt
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Said AI, Gajdács M, Zupkó I, Haukka M, Palkó M. Angular Regioselective Synthesis of Varied Functionalized Hexahydro-1,2,4-triazolo[4,3- a]quinazolin-9-ones and Their Antiproliferative Action. Molecules 2023; 28:molecules28093718. [PMID: 37175130 PMCID: PMC10180492 DOI: 10.3390/molecules28093718] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2023] [Revised: 04/19/2023] [Accepted: 04/19/2023] [Indexed: 05/15/2023] Open
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New 2-thioxopyrimidin-4-ones capable of participating in regioselective reactions with functionally diverse hydrazonoyl chlorides towards angular regioisomers, rather than linear ones, were designed and synthesized to form stereoisomeric cis- and trans-hexahydro [1,2,4]triazolo[4,3-a]quinazolin-9-ones to be tested as antitumor candidates. The angular regiochemistry of the products was verified through crystallographic experiments and NMR studies. In addition, the regioselectivity of the reaction was found to be independent of the stereochemistry of the used 2-thioxopyrimidin-4-one. Only compound 4c demonstrated satisfactory growth inhibition against all the cancer cells used among all the produced drugs.
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- Awad I Said
- Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Szeged, Eötvös u. 6, H-6720 Szeged, Hungary
- Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Assiut University, Assiut 71516, Egypt
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- Institute of Pharmacodynamics and Biopharmacy, University of Szeged, Eötvös u. 6, H-6720 Szeged, Hungary
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- Institute of Pharmacodynamics and Biopharmacy, University of Szeged, Eötvös u. 6, H-6720 Szeged, Hungary
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Jyväskulä, FIN-40014 Jyväskulä, Finland
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Szeged, Eötvös u. 6, H-6720 Szeged, Hungary
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Masaret GS, Farghaly TA, Al-Hussain SA, Zaki MEA, Alsaedi AMR, Muhammad ZA. Site-Selectivity of the Reaction of 3-Amino-4-Cyano-5-Phenyl-1 H-Pyrrole-2-Carboxylic Acid Amide with α-Halocarbonyl Compounds. Antimicrobial Activity and Docking Study for COVID-19 of the Products. Polycycl Aromat Compd 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/10406638.2022.2130371] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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- Ghada S. Masaret
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Applied Science, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Al-Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Al-Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Chemistry, Collage of Science, Taif University, Taif, Saudi Arabia
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- National Organization for Drug Control and Research (NODCAR), Cairo, Egypt
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