Design, synthesis, conformational analysis and application of indolizidin-2-one dipeptide mimics

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (28) ◽  
pp. 5052-5070 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arkady Khashper ◽  
William D. Lubell

Growth in the field of peptide mimicry over the past few decades has resulted in the synthesis of many new compounds and the investigation of novel pharmacological agents.

Author(s):  
Sirisha Kalam ◽  
Sai Krishn G ◽  
Kumara Swamy D ◽  
Sai Santhoshi K ◽  
Durga Prasad K

Pharmacological agents that kills parasites are essential drugs in some tropical countries. In this study, a series of 2-amino substituted 4-phenyl thiazole derivatives (4a-e) have been synthesized by the conventional method. The thiazole derivatives were synthesized by three steps. The obtained five derivatives were purified by recrystallization using methanol as a solvent or column chromatography. They were characterized by melting point, TLC, FTIR, 1H NMR and MASS spectral data. Compounds 4a-e were evaluated in silico by using different software’s (Lipinski’s Rule of 5, OSIRIS molecular property explorer, Molsoft molecular property explorer, and PASS & docking studies). These compounds were then evaluated for their possible anthelmintic activity against Indian adult earth worms (Pherituma postuma). All the compounds displayed significant anthelmintic activity. Compound 4c and 4e were more potent compounds when compared with the standard drug (mebendazole). Molecular docking studies guided and proved the biological activity against beta tubulin protein (1OJ0). In conclusions, these new molecules have promising potential as anthelmintic for treatment of parasites.   


2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 636-658 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Pokorny ◽  
Lucie Borkova ◽  
Milan Urban

Triterpenoids are natural compounds with a large variety of biological activities such as anticancer, antiviral, antibacterial, antifungal, antiparazitic, antiinflammatory and others. Despite their low toxicity and simple availability from the natural resources, their clinical use is still severely limited by their higher IC50 and worse pharmacological properties than in the currently used therapeutics. This fact encouraged a number of researchers to develop new terpenic derivatives more suitable for the potential clinical use. This review summarizes a new approach to improve both, the activity and ADME-Tox properties by connecting active terpenes to another modifying molecules using click reactions. Within the past few years, this synthetic approach was well explored yielding a lot of great improvements of the parent compounds along with some less successful attempts. A large quantity of the new compounds presented here are superior in both activity and ADME-Tox properties to their parents. This review should serve the researchers who need to promote their hit triterpenic structures towards their clinical use and it is intended as a guide for the chemical synthesis of better drug candidates.


2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (7) ◽  
pp. 958-968
Author(s):  
Yunrui Cai ◽  
Tong Chen ◽  
Huajian Zhu ◽  
Hongbin Zou

Background: The development of novel antineoplastic agents remains highly desirable. Objective: This study focuses on the design, synthesis, and antitumor evaluation of phenyl ureas bearing 5-fluoroindolin-2-one moiety. Methods: Three sets of phenylureas were designed and synthesized and their antiproliferative ability was measured against four human carcinoma cell lines (Hela, Eca-109, A549, and MCF-7) via MTT assay. In vivo anticancer activity was further evaluated in xenograft models of human breast cancer (MCF-7). Results: A total of twenty-one new compounds were synthesized and characterized by means of 1H and 13C NMR as well as HR-MS. Three sets of compounds (1a‒1c, 2a‒2c, and 3a‒3c) were initially constructed, and preliminary antiproliferative activities of these molecules were evaluated against Hela, Eca-109, A549 and MCF-7, highlighting the meta-substituted phenylureas (1a‒1c) as the most cytotoxic set. A series of meta-substituted phenylureas derivatives (1d‒1o) were then designed and synthesized for structure-activity relationship study. Most of the new compounds showed desirable cytotoxicity, among which compound 1g exhibited the most remarkable cytotoxic effects against the tested human cancer cells with IC50 values ranging from 1.47 to 6.79 μM. Further studies showed that compound 1g suppressed tumor growth in human breast cancer (MCF- 7) xenograft models without affecting the body weight of its recipients. Conclusion: In this study, twenty-one new compounds, containing the privileged structures of phenylurea and 5-fluoroindolin-2-one, were designed and synthesized. Subsequent structureactivity studies showed that 1g was the most bioactive antitumor agent among all tested compounds, hence a potentially promising lead compound once given further optimization.


2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (15) ◽  
pp. 2124-2130
Author(s):  
Amany Belal

Background: For further exploration of the promising pyrrolizine scaffold and in continuation of our previous work, that proved the potential anticancer activity of the hit compound I, a new series of pyrrolizines 2-5 and 7-9 were designed and synthesized. Methods: Structures of the new compounds were confirmed by IR, 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR and elemental analysis. Antitumor activity for the prepared compounds against human breast adenocarcinoma (MCF-7), liver (HEPG2) and colon (HCT116) cancer cell lines was evaluated using SRB assay method. Result: Compounds 2, 3 and 5 were the most potent on colon cancer cells, their IC50 values were less than 5 µM. Compounds 2, 3 and 8 were the most potent on liver cancer cells, their IC50 values were less than 10 µM. As for MCF7, compounds 2, 7, 8 and 9 were the most active with IC50 values less than 10 µM. We can conclude that combining pyrrolizine scaffold with urea gave abroad spectrum anticancer agent 2 against the three tested cell lines. Micronucleus assays showed that compounds 2, 3, 8 are mutagenic and can induce apoptosis. In addition, caspase-3 activation was evaluated and compound 2 showed increase in the level of caspase-3 (9 folds) followed by 3 (8.28 folds) then 8 (7.89 folds). Conclusion: The obtained results encourage considering these three compounds as novel anticancer prototypes.


2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 549-549
Author(s):  
Xuesong Wang and Xiaorong Tang Xuesong Wang and Xiaorong Tang

A series of novel benzamide derivatives according to fluopicolide were designed and synthesized following the rule of combination carboxylic acid amides and amines derivatives together. The antifungal activity of the 15 new compounds were evaluated in vitro against five pathogenic fungi, including Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, Gibberella zeae, Rhizoctonia solani, Helminthosporium maydis and Botrytis cinerea. Almost all the structure have not been reported, except compounds 3, 5 and 6. A surprising finding is that all the five tested fungi breed faster than negative controls when supplementary with compound 715 , respectively.


PEDIATRICS ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 87 (4) ◽  
pp. 563-565
Author(s):  
HOWARD BAUCHNER

During the past decade certain types of pain in children have been the subject of much research and discussion. The pain associated with cancer, sickle cell disease, and the preoperative and post-operative periods have all been extensively studied and reviewed.1-4 Less information is available about acute pain inflicted in emergency rooms. Children commonly undergo procedures such as venipuncture, intravenous cannulation, lumbar puncture, and manipulation of fractures in emergency rooms without the benefit of any analgesia. What techniques are available to reduce the pain and anxiety that children feel when they undergo procedures? Traditionally, physicians have tried to reduce pain by using pharmacological agents.


1995 ◽  
Vol 16 (11) ◽  
pp. 438-439
Author(s):  
Michael G. Rosenberg

In the past, efficacy, as defined by controlled clinical trials, was the primary factor in the selection of a particular antibiotic regimen. Today, as the number of antimicrobial agents approved for clinical use has grown almost exponentially, efficacy rarely is emphasized in published clinical trials. More commonly they demonstrate therapeutic equivalence rather than superiority of new compounds to previously accepted regimens. For this reason, the two criteria that now factor most prominently into the selection of equally effective antibiotics are relative toxicity and cost. Three major classes of antibiotics used throughout the world in the treatment of serious pediatric infectious diseases are chloramphenicol (CAP) and its derivatives, aminoglycosides (AGs), and vancomycin and related glycopeptides.


2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 1934578X1400900 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasunori Yaoita ◽  
Masao Kikuchi ◽  
Koichi Machida

Over the past twenty years, our research group has been studying the chemical constituents of mushrooms. From nineteen species, namely, Amanita virgineoides Bas (Amanitaceae), Daedaleopsis tricolor (Bull.: Fr.) Bond. et Sing. (Polyporaceae), Grifola frondosa (Fr.) S. F. Gray (Polyporaceae), Hericium erinaceum (Bull.: Fr.) Pers. (Hericiaceae), Hypsizigus marmoreus (Peck) Bigelow (Tricholomataceae), Lactarius piperatus (Scop.: Fr.) S. F. Gray (Russulaceae), Lentinula edodes (Berk.) Sing. (Pleurotaceae), Lyophyllyum connatum (Schum.: Fr.) Sing. (Tricholomataceae), Naematoloma sublateritium (Fr.) Karst. (Strophariaceae), Ompharia lapidescens Schroeter (Polyporaceae), Panellus serotinus (Pers.: Fr.) Kuhn. (Tricholomataceae), Pholiota nameko (T. Ito) S. Ito et Imai in Imai (Strophariaceae), Pleurotus eringii (DC.: Fr.) Quel. (Pleurotaceae), Polyporus umbellatus Fries (Polyporaceae), Russula delica Fr. (Russulaceae), Russula sanguinea (Bull.) Fr. (Russulaceae), Sarcodon aspratus (Berk.) S. Ito (Thelephoraceae), Tricholoma matsutake (S. Ito et Imai) Sing. (Tricholomataceae), and Tricholoma portentosum (Fr.) Quel. (Tricholomataceae), we isolated eight new sesquiterpenoids, six new meroterpenoids, three new triterpenoids, and twenty eight new sterols. In this review, structural features of these new compounds are discussed.


2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (12) ◽  
pp. 4433-4438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theo Flack ◽  
Charles Romain ◽  
Andrew J. P. White ◽  
Peter R. Haycock ◽  
Anna Barnard

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