Mutations in the genetic sequence of leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) have been linked to increased LRRK2 activity and risk for the development of Parkinson's disease (PD). Potent, and selective small molecules capab...
A graphical method is introduced for compound data mining and structure-activity relationship (SAR) data analysis that is based upon a canonical structural organization scheme and captures a compound-scaffold-skeleton hi...
A series of novel 3-nitro-1H-1,2,4-triazole-based (and in some cases 2-nitro-1H-imidazole-based) amides and sulfonamides were characterized for their in vitro antitrypanosomal and antileishmanial activities as well as ma...
Multidrug resistance (MDR) against standard therapies poses a serious challenge in cancer treatment, and there is a clinical need for new anticancer agents that would selectively target MDR malignancies. Our previous stu...
The class III lysine deacylases (KDACs), also known as the sirtuins, have emerged as interesting drug targets for therapeutic intervention in a variety of diseases. To gain a deeper understanding of the processes affecte...
A panel of compounds belonging to the underexposed sulfamate class of carbonic anhydrase (CA, EC 4.2.1.1) inhibitors was generated that displayed high specificity at nanomolar levels for the tumor-associated CA IX/XII is...
Tris(8-quinolinolato)gallium(III) (1, K246) is a very promising investigational anticancer drug. Its interaction with serum proteins, elemental distribution, and coordination in tissue were investigated with X-ray absorp...
Aplog-1, a simplified analogue of tumor-promoting debromoaplysiatoxin, is antiproliferative but not tumor-promoting. Our recent study has suggested that local hydrophobicity around the spiroketal moiety is a crucial dete...
We synthesized new N-phenylethyl-1H-indole-2-carboxamides as the first SAR study of allosteric modulators of the CB1 receptor. The presence of the carboxamide functionality was required in order to obtain a stimulatory e...
Interactions of macrolide antibiotics with biological membranes contribute to their bioavailability but are also involved in the formal:ion of phospholipidosis, which is caused by the inhibition of phospholipase A(1) act...
Purine-beta-lactam chimera were prepared as a novel class of hybrid systems through N-alkylation of 6-benzylamino- or 6-benzyloxypurine with (omega-haloalkyl)-beta-lactams, followed by reductive ring opening of the beta-...
A novel bitriazolyl acyclonudeoside was discovered to exhibit powerful antiproliferative effects on different cancer cell lines through caspase-dependent apoptosis and at the same time stimulate the immune response in de...