Current Drug Discovery Technologies - Volume 14, Issue 1, 2017

The use of earths and clays for medical purposes dates back to antiquity. In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in researches on traditional remedies in the hope of discovering new drug. Iran is an ancient country with a medical backbone acquired from the experiences of ancient Persian scholars, who had made a great contribution to the development of the medical sciences. Many medical and pharmace Read More

Background: Guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (GPRT) is a very attractive target for the development of new drugs against G. lamblia because of its critical role in the synthesis of DNA and RNA. Herein we report the use of in silico approaches to identify potential G. lamblia GPRT inhibitors. Methods: Analyses of the binding site of the enzyme accomplished through the use of several methods allowed the construction of a ph Read More

Background: The increasing rate of appearance of multidrug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a serious problem at the present time. MDR-TB forms do not respond to the standard treatment with the commonly used drugs and can take some years or more to treat with drugs that are less potent, more toxic and much more expensive. Objective: The goal of this work is to identify the novel effective d Read More

Background: Thiazol-2-ethylamine is recently reported to be an interesting scaffold having antitrypansomal activity for the treatment of sleeping sickness. Methods: Statistically significant, robust and validated regression-based QSAR models are constructed for a series of antitrypansomal thiazol-2-ethylamines. Moreover, classification-based QSAR analyses (linear discriminant analysis and Bayesian classification modelling) Read More

Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of ß-Dmannuronic acid (M2000) on related miRNAs to dendritic cells (DCs) differentiation. DC-based immunosuppressive drugs can suppress the progression of autoimmune diseases, however, their notable side effects in increasing the risk of infectious diseases and cancers should be considered. The -D-mannuronic acid, as a novel non-steroidal anti-infla Read More

Background: Protein three-dimensional structures are very much important in terms of functional and evolutionary context. In the present work we evaluated the snake venom constituent cytotoxin, short neurotoxin and related non-toxin proteins of other chordates with reference to structure prediction, validation of the models, distribution of secondary structural elements, hydrophobicity molecular surface analysis, functional Read More