Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry - Volume 21, Issue 23, 2021

Infectious diseases are among the leading causes of death worldwide, especially in developing countries. The historical lack of interest of the pharmaceutical industry in developing new drugs against many of these diseases, such as tuberculosis, leishmaniasis, Chagas disease, sleeping sickness, and fungal infections, has left millions of individuals dependent on old treatments that are often ineffective and present differe Read More

Modulators of quorum sensing pathways in Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA) gain attention due to their potential therapeutic applications. These chemical agents are viewed as anti-virulence agents capable of increasing the existing therapeutic agents’ efficacy against resistant clinical strains. Additionally, they can be utilized in developing anticancer therapeutics, whole-cell biosensors, and artificial biological systems. In this mi Read More

The need to overcome ever-increasing cases of antifungal resistance and circumvent side effects and drug interactions related to currently available drugs has impelled the demand to expedite the drug discovery and the development of novel antifungals. 1,4-disubstituted 1,2,3-triazole has gained tremendous interest in the last two decades mainly because of its ease of synthesis via copper( I)-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycl Read More

Background: Dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (DHODH) has long been recognized as an important drug target for proliferative and parasitic diseases, including compounds that exhibit trypanocidal action and broad-spectrum antiviral activity. Despite numerous and successful efforts in structural and functional characterization of DHODHs, as well as in the development of inhibitors, DHODH hot spots remain largely unma Read More