Discovery of natural alkaloids as potent and selective inhibitors against human carboxylesterase 2

YS Zhao, XK Qian, XQ Guan, PF Song, YQ Song… - Bioorganic …, 2020 - Elsevier
… sixty natural alkaloidsalkaloids are found with strong to moderate hCES2A inhibition
activity. Primary structure–activity relationships (SAR) analysis of natural isoquinoline alkaloids

Recent progress in the discovery of natural inhibitors against human carboxylesterases

DD Wang, LW Zou, Q Jin, J Hou, GB Ge, L Yang - Fitoterapia, 2017 - Elsevier
… Eserine, a natural alkaloid, was found to be a highly specific hCE2 inhibitor with the K i value
to be 0.358 μM (Table 7) [113]. Further investigation also found that eserine could potently …

Potential pharmacokinetic herb-drug interactions: have we overlooked the importance of human carboxylesterases 1 and 2?

J Xu, JC Qiu, X Ji, HL Guo, X Wang… - Current Drug …, 2019 - ingentaconnect.com
… These biological activities are associated with the isoquinoline alkaloids hydrastine and
berberine. Liu … Identification and characterization of naturally occurring inhibitors against human

Carboxylesterase inhibitors: an update

LW Zou, Q Jin, DD Wang, QK Qian… - Current Medicinal …, 2018 - ingentaconnect.com
… Physostigmine, a natural alkaloid, was a highly specific CES2 inhibitor with the Ki value of
0.358 μM [110]. Physostigmine potently inhibited the hydrolysis of irinotecan but did not affect …

Discovery and Characterization of the Biflavones From Ginkgo biloba as Highly Specific and Potent Inhibitors Against Human Carboxylesterase 2

YQ Song, RJ He, D Pu, XQ Guan, JH Shi… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Human carboxylesterase 2 (CES2), one of the most … discover efficacious CES2 inhibitors
from natural products and to … potency of more than 100 natural products against CES2, it was …

An in vitro evaluation of kratom (Mitragyna speciosa) on the catalytic activity of carboxylesterase 1 (CES1)

PW Melchert, Q Zhang, S Mukhopadhyay… - Chemico-Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
alkaloids using an established CES1 assay and incubation system. Three separate kratom
extracts and the major kratom alkaloids … screen mimicking alkaloid exposures in humans, a …

Major metabolites of certain marketed plant alkaloids

K Manna, B Debnath, WS Singh - Front Nat Prod Chem, 2020 - books.google.com
… borderline between alkaloids and naturally existing complex amines. Typical alkaloids are
… and putative NADPH-FMNreductase, carboxylesterase, CYP2B6, CYP3A4, and CYP2D6. …

Carboxylesterase inhibitors

MJ Hatfield, PM Potter - Expert opinion on therapeutic patents, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Natural products containing 1,2-diones Recently, two indole alkaloids have been identified
in extracts of marine organisms that contain the ethane-1,2-dione chemotype Citation[51,52]. …

Phytochemical constituents from Uncaria rhynchophylla in human carboxylesterase 2 inhibition: kinetics and interaction mechanism merged with docking simulations

YL Wang, PP Dong, JH Liang, N Li, CP Sun, XG Tian… - Phytomedicine, 2018 - Elsevier
… To discover the potential natural human carboxylesterase 2 (hCE 2) … Human carboxylesterases
(hCEs) are classified into two subtypes, human carboxylesterase 1 (hCE 1) and human

Evolution and diversification of carboxylesterase-like [4+ 2] cyclases in aspidosperma and iboga alkaloid biosynthesis

MD DeMars, SE O'Connor - Proceedings of the National …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
… Aspidosperma and iboga alkaloids are plant-derived natural … through the action of homologous
carboxylesterase (CXE)-like … formation of the aspidosperma alkaloid scaffold. Key amino …