Combinatorial Chemistry & High Throughput Screening - Volume 19, Issue 3, 2016

The development of new anti-cancer therapeutic agents is necessary to improve antitumor efficacy and reduce toxicities. Here we report using a systematic anticancer drug screening approach we developed previously, to concurrently screen colon and glioma cancer cell lines for 2000 compounds with known bioactivity and 1920 compounds with unknown activity. The hits specific to each tumor cell line were then select Read More

Herein, we describe a simple, four-step process for the preparation of 1,2,3-triazino[1,6- a]quinazolin-13-ones. This method involves ring-opening, quinazoline-forming condensation, reduction, diazotization accompanied by rapid intramolecular cyclization in the last step afforded the desired products with structurally complex heterocyclic core in excellent to high yields.

A series of rosin based esters have been synthesized from dehydroabietic acid and maleopimaric acid, respectively. Their structures were confirmed by FT-IR, 1H NMR, 13C NMR and single crystal X-ray diffraction. Their antifeedant activities against armyworm were examined by leaf plate method. Methyl ester of dehydroabietic acid and maleopimaric acid were crystallized in orthorhombic system with cell dimensions Read More

Picrorhiza kurroa is an important herb in Indian medicine and contains cucurbitacins, flavonoids, phenolics, iridoid-glucoside and their derivatives as active constituents for the treatment of indigestion, fever, hepatitis, cancer, liver and respiratory diseases. Extensive use of P. kurroa needs detailed analysis and recognition of chemical diversity, is of great importance to evaluate their role as quality control markers. In the pr Read More

ADAMTS4 (Aggrecanase-1) is an important enzyme, which belongs to ADAMTS family. Aggrecanase-1 is involved in aggrecan degradation of articular cartilage in osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. Overall variability of S1’ domain of ADAMTS4 has been the main selectivity determinant to design the unique inhibitors. 34 inhibitors from Binding database and literature were used to develop the pharmacophore model. The Read More

Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is a tyrosine kinase with a key role in cell proliferation, death and differentiation. Mutations in EGFR, including substitution of Thr790 by methionine and Leu858 by arginine (T790M/L858R), lead to a lung cancer that is resistant against first generation inhibitors. In fact, second generation inhibitors were developed, but they proved to have had severe side effects because of t Read More

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infection with global impact that over time demonstrates enormously high mortality rates. The vital need for improving novel and efficient anti-TB drugs is caused by the rising rate of appearance of Multi Drug Resistant (MDR) strains to the frequently utilized drugs.In addition, the longer periods of therapy and healing, mainly in the immune compromised patients aggrevates the situation. Recent studie Read More

Human meprin-α and-β are important regulators of angiogenesis, cancer, inflammation, fibrosis, and neurodegenerative diseases and hence important therapeutic targets. Meprins are the only astacin proteases that are expressed in membrane-bound and secreted form. The cleavage specificity of human meprins is similar in certain cases but differs markedly in others. The inhibitor selectivity of human meprins is contr Read More