Combinatorial Chemistry & High Throughput Screening - Volume 17, Issue 2, 2014

RNAi screening in combination with the genome-sequencing projects would constitute the Holy Grail of modern genetics; enabling discovery and validation towards a better understanding of fundamental biology leading to novel targets to combat disease. Hit discordance at inter-screen level together with the lack of reproducibility is emerging as the technology's main pitfalls. To examine some of the underlining factors leadin Read More

Using Self-Organizing Map (SOM) and Support Vector Machine (SVM), four classification models were built to predict whether a compound is an active or weakly active inhibitor of Aurora B kinase. A dataset of 679 Aurora B kinase inhibitors was collected, and randomly split into a training set (278 active and 204 weakly active inhibitors) and a test set (109 active and 88 weakly active inhibitors). Based on 19 selected ADRIANA. Read More

Insomnia is one of the most common clinical problems being faced by people all over the world. It adversely affects the routine life of these patients giving rise to even other health issues like hypertension, diabetes, obesity, depression, heart attack, and stroke. Orexin receptor-1 (OX1R), a noteworthy drug target, when inhibited can promote sleepiness in people suffering from such conditions. OX1R is a G-protein coupled Read More

A one-pot, three-component reaction of an isatin and kojic acid with an active methylene compound such as ethyl cyanoacetate, methyl cyanoacetate and malononitrile in methanol using catalytic amount of DABCO to give 2'- amino-6'-(hydroxymethyl)-8'H-spiro[indoline-3,4'-pyrano[3,2-b]pyran]-2,8'-diones in good to excellent yields under reflux conditions, is described.

An artificial polypeptide receptor (APR) library was created by using the self-organization of N-lipidated peptides attached to cellulose via m-aminophenylamino-1,3,5-triazine. The response of the library was probed using a series of novel H3 receptor ligands. Since no guidelines on how to design an APRs selective vs certain receptor types exist, a diverse set of amino acids (Ala, Trp, Pro, Glu, His, Lys and Ser) were used and Read More

An efficient synthesis of alkyl 4,5-dihydro-4-oxo-2-phenylpyrrolo[2,1-c][1,4]benzoxazine-3-carboxylates and alkyl 4,5-dihydro-4-oxo-2-phenylpyrrolo[1,2-a]quinoxaline-3-carboxylates is described. This involves a three-component reaction between o-aminophenols or o-phenylenediamine, acetylenic esters and β-nitrostyrene derivatives using p-toluene sulfonic acid as a catalyst.

Flavonoids, the most diverse class of plant secondary metabolites, exhibit high affinity toward the purified cytosolic NBD2(C-terminal nucleotide-binding domain) of P-glycoprotein (P-gp). To explore the affinity of flavonoids for P-gp, quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSARs) models were developed using back-propagation artificial neural networks (BPANN) and multiple linear regression (MLR). Molecular descriptors w Read More

The last few decades have seen the rise of widely-available proteomics tools. From new data acquisition devices, such as MALDI-MS and 2DE to new database searching softwares, these new products have paved the way for high throughput microbial proteomics (HTMP). These tools are enabling researchers to gain new insights into microbial metabolism, and are opening up new areas of study, such as protein-protein interactions Read More

In this paper, CuInS2 (CIS) nanoparticles were synthesized successfully via a new copper precursor [bis(acetylacetonato)copper(II)], [Cu(acac)2]; at room temperature by ultrasonic method. The effect of sulfur source, solvent, and reaction time was investigated on product morphology and particle size. A series of analyses was performed to characterize the CuInS2 microsphere including X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning elec Read More