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Poly-γ-S-perillyl-l-glutamate and Poly-γ-S-perillyl-d-glutamate: Diastereomeric Alignment Media Used for the Investigation of the Alignment Process
Alcaraz Jan?en, Marcel,Thiele, Christina M.
, p. 7831 - 7839 (2020)
Residual dipolar couplings (RDCs) offer additional information for structure elucidation by NMR spectroscopy. They are measured in anisotropic media, such as lyotropic liquid crystalline phases of polypeptides. Today, some suitable polypeptides are known.
New hybrid compounds combining fragments of usnic acid and monoterpenoids for effective tyrosyl-dna phosphodiesterase 1 inhibition
Dyrkheeva, Nadezhda S.,Filimonov, Aleksandr S.,Luzina, Olga A.,Zakharenko, Alexandra L.,Ilina, Ekaterina S.,Malakhova, Anastasia A.,Medvedev, Sergey P.,Reynisson, Jóhannes,Volcho, Konstantin P.,Zakian, Suren M.,Salakhutdinov, Nariman F.,Lavrik, Olga I.
, (2021/07/02)
Usnic acid (UA) is a secondary metabolite of lichens that exhibits a wide range of biological activities. Previously, we found that UA derivatives are effective inhibitors of tyrosyl-DNA phosphodiesterase 1 (TDP1). It can remove covalent complex DNA-topoisomerase 1 (TOP1) stabi-lized by the TOP1 inhibitor topotecan, neutralizing the effect of the drugs. TDP1 removes damage at the 3′ end of DNA caused by other anticancer agents. Thus, TDP1 is a promising therapeutic target for the development of drug combinations with topotecan, as well as other drugs for cancer treatment. Ten new UA enamino derivatives with variation in the terpene fragment and substituent of the UA backbone were synthesized and tested as TDP1 inhibitors. Four compounds, 11a-d, had IC50 values in the 0.23–0.40 μM range. Molecular modelling showed that 11a-d, with relatively short aliphatic chains, fit to the important binding domains. The intrinsic cytotoxicity of 11a-d was tested on two human cell lines. The compounds had low cytotoxicity with CC50 ≥ 60 μM for both cell lines. 11a and 11c had high inhibition efficacy and low cytotoxicity, and they enhanced topotecan’s cyto-toxicity in cancerous HeLa cells but reduced it in the non-cancerous HEK293A cells. This “protec-tive” effect from topotecan on non-cancerous cells requires further investigation.
Natural product derivatization with β-lactones, β-lactams and epoxides toward ‘infinite’ binders
Jouanneau, Morgan,Vellalath, Sreekumar,Kang, Guowei,Romo, Daniel
, p. 3348 - 3354 (2019/05/17)
β-Lactones, β-lactams and epoxides are privileged structural motifs found in both therapeutics and natural products. Herein we report several strategies for annulation of these motifs onto natural products that are not known to covalently modify their cellular targets. These strategies can facilitate identification of previously unidentified cellular targets or identify novel cellular targets of these natural products. The reported strategies include telescoped synthesis of β-lactones from allylic alcohols, nucleophile-catalyzed Michael aldol-β-lactonizations, and [2 + 2] β-lactam annulations with complex, commercially available alkene-containing natural products as substrates. A novel method for the tagging of phenolic natural products with epoxides is also reported.
