Combinatorial Chemistry & High Throughput Screening - Volume 17, Issue 1, 2014

Protein Kinase C βII (PKCβII) overexpression has been linked to various diabetic microvascular complications viz. retinopathy, neuropathy, and cardiomyopathy. Novel and potent small molecules with preferential selective inhibitory property of PKCβII will be helpful in treatment as well as understanding insight of PKCβII involvement in these complications. Robust 3D hypotheses were developed using both the crystal structu Read More

A universal process in experimental biology is the use of engineered cells; more often, stably or transiently transfected cells are generated for the purpose. Therefore, it is important that cell health assessment is conducted to check for stress mediated by induction of heat shock proteins (Hsps). For this purpose, we have developed an integrated platform that would enable a direct assessment of transfection efficiency (TE) combi Read More

Mitochondria are the center of metabolism and the critical role of aberrant mitochondrial fission in the onset and progression of a wide range of human diseases such as neurodegenerative disorders, cardiovascular disease, ischemic stroke and diabetes, is slowly becoming recognized. Under physiological conditions, mitochondrial structure is predominantly regulated by cycles of fusion and fission, which is very crucial for the Read More

An efficient synthesis of 1,3-oxathiolan-2-yliden derivatives is described via a simple reactions between CHacids, CS2 and oxiranes in the presence of triethylamine at 70°C in water as the solvent. The mild reaction conditions and high yields of the products exhibit the good synthetic advantage of this method.

Cervical cancer is the second largest form of cancer to infest the leading cause of death in women worldwide. There are many causes of cancer but viruses are the most common among them. Human papillomaviruses (HPVs) are found to be the causative organism in almost 99.7% of the cases. HPV16 is the most frequent HPV type in malignant neoplastic growth in about 60% of cervical carcinoma cases. There is limited s Read More

One-pot, three-component reactions of structurally diverse salicylaldehydes with malononitrile (or ethylcyanoacetate) and diethyl (or dimethyl) phosphate are carried out in the presence of nano-rods ZnO as an efficient catalyst for the synthesis of biologically interesting 2-amino-4H-chromen-4-yl phosphonate derivatives. The value of this method lies in its mild and environmentally benign reaction, simple procedure, Read More

Therapeutic options for many infections are extremely limited and at crisis point. We run the risk of entering a second pre-antibiotic era. There had been no miracle drug for the patients infected by resistant microbial pathogens. Most of the very few new drugs under development have problems with their toxicity, or pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. We are already decades behind in the discovery, characterization and d Read More

The unique physical/chemical properties of nanomaterials have significant impacts in electromagnetic waves (microwave and infrared waves)-assisted tryptic digestion approaches by using them as heat absorbers to expedite digestion and as affinity probes to enrich digested proteins prior to MALDI-MS analysis. We review recent developments in electromagnetic waves (microwaves and infrared waves)-assisted proteolysis Read More

Digital Holographic Microscopy (DHM) is a label-free imaging technique allowing visualization of transparent cells with classical imaging cell culture plates. The quantitative DHM phase contrast image provided is related both to the intracellular refractive index and to cell thickness. DHM is able to distinguish cellular morphological changes on two representative cell lines (HeLa and H9c2) when treated with doxorubicin and chloroqui Read More

A chemically diverse library of benzimidazole-azo-phenol derivatives was efficiently prepared and screened for their antifungal activities against five phytopathogenic fungi. Some compounds exhibited potent antifungal activities. As compared with a commercially available agricultural fungicide, hymexazol, especially compound V-5 showed the most promising broad-spectrum antifungal activities against five phytopathogenic fung Read More