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Design, synthesis, biological evaluation, structure-activity relationship study, and mode of action of 2-phenol-4,6-dichlorophenyl-pyridines 10.1016/j.bioorg.2018.03.033 2018-04-03 Human DNA topoisomerases (Topos) are essential nuclear enzyme whose level of expression is potential indicator for prediction of responsive result of chemotherapy. Topos has become a key cellular target for most of the anticancer agents that regulates topolog...
Synthesis, biological evaluation and molecular docking studies of aminochalcone derivatives as potential anticancer agents by targeting tubulin colchicine binding site 10.1016/j.bioorg.2018.03.028 2018-04-03 A series of aminochalcone derivatives have been synthesized, characterized by HRMS, 1H NMR and 13C NMR and evaluated for their antiproliferative activity against HepG2 and HCT116 human cancer cell lines. The most of new synthesized compounds displayed moderat...
New advances in synthesis and clinical aspects of pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidine scaffolds 10.1016/j.bioorg.2018.03.032 2018-04-03 Pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidine ring system constitute an important class of heterocyclic compounds which can serve as a promising scaffold exhibiting many pharmacological activities. This ring system received much attention as it is a purine isostere by replacing ...
Design, synthesis and evaluation of some pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidines as anti-inflammatory agents 10.1016/j.bioorg.2018.03.030 2018-04-03 New pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidines substituted with various functionalities or attached to a substituted pyrazole ring through different linkages were synthesized. The synthesized compounds were evaluated for their anti-inflammatory activity using in vitro COX-1/...
Synthesis and molecular docking study of piperazine derivatives as potent inhibitor of thymidine phosphorylase 10.1016/j.bioorg.2018.03.026 2018-03-30 Thymidine phosphorylase triggers the phosphorylation of pyrimidine base to thymine and 2-deoxyribose 1-phosphate which undergoes dephosphorylation to 2-deoxyribose. It plays a role in tumor angiogenesis which is referred to the development of blood vessels du...
Design, synthesis and in vitro evaluation of β-glucuronidase-sensitive prodrug of 5-aminolevulinic acid for photodiagnosis of breast cancer cells 10.1016/j.bioorg.2018.03.020 2018-03-30 Treatment of cancer cells by clinically approved hexyl ester of 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA-Hex) induces accumulation of fluorescent porphyrins in tumors. This allows fluorescence photodiagnosis (PD) of bladder cancer by blue light illumination. However, PD of...
Anticancer effects of new dibenzenesulfonamides by inducing apoptosis and autophagy pathways and their carbonic anhydrase inhibitory effects on hCA I, hCA II, hCA IX, hCA XII isoenzymes 10.1016/j.bioorg.2018.03.027 2018-03-30 In this study, new dibenzensulfonamides, 7–9, having the chemical structure 4,4′-(5′-chloro-3′-methyl-5-aryl-3,4-dihydro-1′H,H-[3,4′-bipyrazole]-1′,2-diyl)dibenzenesulfonamide were synthesized in five steps to develop new anticancer drug candidates. Their che...
Acetylenic fatty acids from Porcelia macrocarpa (Annonaceae) against trypomastigotes of Trypanosoma cruzi: Effect of octadec-9-ynoic acid in plasma membrane electric potential 10.1016/j.bioorg.2018.03.025 2018-03-30 Porcelia macrocarpa (Warm.) R. E. Fries (Annonaceae) is an endemic plant in Brazil where its tasty pulp has been eaten fresh. The hexane extract from its flowers was subjected to chromatographic procedures to afford four acetylene derivatives identified as oc...
Synthesis and characterization of new inhibitors of cholinesterases based on N-phenylcarbamates: In vitro study of inhibitory effect, type of inhibition, lipophilicity and molecular docking 10.1016/j.bioorg.2018.03.012 2018-03-28 Based on current treatment of Alzheimer's disease, where the carbamate inhibitor Rivastigmine is used, two series of carbamate derivatives were prepared: (i) N-phenylcarbamates with additional carbamate group (1–12) and (ii) N-phenylcarbamates with monosaccha...
Design, synthesis and evaluation of pterostilbene β-amino alcohol derivatives as multifunctional agents for Alzheimer's disease treatment 10.1016/j.bioorg.2018.03.016 2018-03-28 A series of pterostilbene β-amino alcohol derivatives were designed, synthesized and evaluated as multifunctional agents for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). In vitro assays demonstrated that most of the derivatives were selective acetylacholinester...

Design, synthesis, biological evaluation, structure-activity relationship study, and mode of action of 2-phenol-4,6-dichlorophenyl-pyridines

10.1016/j.bioorg.2018.03.033

2018-04-03

Human DNA topoisomerases (Topos) are essential nuclear enzyme whose level of expression is potential indicator for prediction of responsive result of chemotherapy. Topos has become a key cellular target for most of the anticancer agents that regulates topolog...

Synthesis, biological evaluation and molecular docking studies of aminochalcone derivatives as potential anticancer agents by targeting tubulin colchicine binding site

10.1016/j.bioorg.2018.03.028

2018-04-03

A series of aminochalcone derivatives have been synthesized, characterized by HRMS, 1H NMR and 13C NMR and evaluated for their antiproliferative activity against HepG2 and HCT116 human cancer cell lines. The most of new synthesized compounds displayed moderat...

New advances in synthesis and clinical aspects of pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidine scaffolds

10.1016/j.bioorg.2018.03.032

2018-04-03

Pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidine ring system constitute an important class of heterocyclic compounds which can serve as a promising scaffold exhibiting many pharmacological activities. This ring system received much attention as it is a purine isostere by replacing ...

Design, synthesis and evaluation of some pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidines as anti-inflammatory agents

10.1016/j.bioorg.2018.03.030

2018-04-03

New pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidines substituted with various functionalities or attached to a substituted pyrazole ring through different linkages were synthesized. The synthesized compounds were evaluated for their anti-inflammatory activity using in vitro COX-1/...

Synthesis and molecular docking study of piperazine derivatives as potent inhibitor of thymidine phosphorylase

10.1016/j.bioorg.2018.03.026

2018-03-30

Thymidine phosphorylase triggers the phosphorylation of pyrimidine base to thymine and 2-deoxyribose 1-phosphate which undergoes dephosphorylation to 2-deoxyribose. It plays a role in tumor angiogenesis which is referred to the development of blood vessels du...

Design, synthesis and in vitro evaluation of β-glucuronidase-sensitive prodrug of 5-aminolevulinic acid for photodiagnosis of breast cancer cells

10.1016/j.bioorg.2018.03.020

2018-03-30

Treatment of cancer cells by clinically approved hexyl ester of 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA-Hex) induces accumulation of fluorescent porphyrins in tumors. This allows fluorescence photodiagnosis (PD) of bladder cancer by blue light illumination. However, PD of...

Anticancer effects of new dibenzenesulfonamides by inducing apoptosis and autophagy pathways and their carbonic anhydrase inhibitory effects on hCA I, hCA II, hCA IX, hCA XII isoenzymes

10.1016/j.bioorg.2018.03.027

2018-03-30

In this study, new dibenzensulfonamides, 7–9, having the chemical structure 4,4′-(5′-chloro-3′-methyl-5-aryl-3,4-dihydro-1′H,H-[3,4′-bipyrazole]-1′,2-diyl)dibenzenesulfonamide were synthesized in five steps to develop new anticancer drug candidates. Their che...

Acetylenic fatty acids from Porcelia macrocarpa (Annonaceae) against trypomastigotes of Trypanosoma cruzi: Effect of octadec-9-ynoic acid in plasma membrane electric potential

10.1016/j.bioorg.2018.03.025

2018-03-30

Porcelia macrocarpa (Warm.) R. E. Fries (Annonaceae) is an endemic plant in Brazil where its tasty pulp has been eaten fresh. The hexane extract from its flowers was subjected to chromatographic procedures to afford four acetylene derivatives identified as oc...

Synthesis and characterization of new inhibitors of cholinesterases based on N-phenylcarbamates: In vitro study of inhibitory effect, type of inhibition, lipophilicity and molecular docking

10.1016/j.bioorg.2018.03.012

2018-03-28

Based on current treatment of Alzheimer's disease, where the carbamate inhibitor Rivastigmine is used, two series of carbamate derivatives were prepared: (i) N-phenylcarbamates with additional carbamate group (1–12) and (ii) N-phenylcarbamates with monosaccha...

Design, synthesis and evaluation of pterostilbene β-amino alcohol derivatives as multifunctional agents for Alzheimer's disease treatment

10.1016/j.bioorg.2018.03.016

2018-03-28

A series of pterostilbene β-amino alcohol derivatives were designed, synthesized and evaluated as multifunctional agents for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). In vitro assays demonstrated that most of the derivatives were selective acetylacholinester...