Medicinal Chemistry - Volume 10, Issue 4, 2014

Fatty acid binding protein 4 (FABP4) is expressed in adipocytes and macrophages, and modulates inflammatory and metabolic response. Studies in FABP4-deficient mice have shown that this lipid carrier has a significant role within the field of metabolic syndrome, inflammation and atherosclerosis; thus, its inhibition may open up new opportunities to develop novel therapeutic agents. A number of potent small molec Read More

The antitumor activity of antibacterial and antifungal compounds has been of interest in the past. In several investigations glycopeptide antibiotics like bleomycin and antifungal agents like itraconazole have shown direct positive results whereas antifungal polyenes such as amphotericin B have been shown to potentiate the effects of antitumor agents. After having investigated the fluorescence-marked antibacterial glycopeptides Read More

Thiazolidinones, synthesized from multicomponent reactions of 2-heteroarylmethylamine, arenealdehydes and mercaptoacetic acid, have been tested against six yeasts, namely Candida albicans, C. parapsilosis, C. guilliermondii, Cryptococcus laurentii, Trichosporon asahii and Rhodotorula spp. The activities were expressed as minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC) and the minimum fungicidal concentrations (MFC). The Read More

Previous structure-activity relationship studies involving a series of lactone-based muscarinic ligands identified a lead compound containing a diphenylmethylpiperazine moiety (4; IC50 = 340 nM). The purpose of the present work is to investigate 1,3-benzodioxoles, 4,4-diethyl substituted tetrahydrofurans, 5-substituted oxazolidinones and chromones as bioisosteric replacements for the lactone ring in a novel series of mus Read More

Diels-Alder reaction between furan and maleic anhydride resulted in 5,6-dehydro norcantharidin, then norcantharidin was obtained by reduction. The substituted-carboxylic acid was condensed with N-aminothiourea in presence of phosphorus oxychloride, yielding 2-amino-1,3,4-thiadiazole derivatives. Novel norcantharidin derivatives were synthesized with acylation, then intramolecular condensation using norcantharidin (or Read More

The present paper reports an easy preparation of imines of N-methyl-1H-indole-3-carboxaldehyde by its condensation with alkyl and aromatic amines in ethanol without using any catalyst or dehydrating agent. The compounds have been screened for their antibacterial, antifungal, crown gall tumor inhibitory, and cytotoxic activities. As a major finding some of the compounds exhibited potential biological activity. The imine Read More

Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), a member of the Herpesviridae family, is a ubiquitous, contagious, hostadapted pathogen that causes a wide variety of disease states, such as herpes labialis (“cold sores”) and encephalitis. Recently, due to the appearance of acyclovir-resistant HSV-1 mutants, a rapidly growing area of research has been the identification of novel small molecules (whether found in traditional medicine Read More

Pharmacophore models of human dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (HsDHODH) have been developed using Discovery Studio V2.1 with a training set of 27 HsDHODH inhibitors. With one hydrogen bond receptor, two hydrophobic, one ring aromatic and one neg ionizable features, Hypo 1 has a correlation coefficient of 0.948, cost difference of 78.894, and RMSD 0.926. This model was validated by test set and Fischer randomizati Read More

A series of new analogs fluorine containing heterocyclic system viz. 4-benzofuran-2-yl-6-phenyl-pyrimidin-2- ylamine has been synthesized and evaluated for in vitro antibacterial and antifungal activities. Microwave assisted Claisen-Schmidt condensation of 2-acetylbenzofuran (3) with fluorinated benzaldehydes (4) afforded corresponding fluorinated chalcones (5a-g). The cyclocondensation of chalcones with guanidine Read More

Two series of compounds (AB and APB) bearing substituted phenoxy groups at 2-position of benzimidazole nucleus through amino or phenyleneamino were synthesized and evaluated through PASS software for predicting the activity spectrum of each compound. All compounds of both the series were predicted to have potent anthelmintic activity. The activity of each compound was evaluated experimentally at the Read More

Protein lysine methyltransferase G9a, which catalyzes methylation of lysine 9 of histone H3 (H3K9) and lysine 373 (K373) of p53, is overexpressed in human cancers. This suggests that small molecular inhibitors of G9a might be attractive antitumor agents. Herein we report our efforts on the design of novel G9a inhibitor based on the 3D quantitative structure-activity relationship (3D-QSAR) analysis of a series of 2,4-diamino-7- Read More