Plant secondary metabolites as anticancer agents: successes in clinical trials and therapeutic application

AML Seca, DCGA Pinto - International journal of molecular sciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
Cancer is a multistage process resulting in an uncontrolled and abrupt division of cells and
is one of the leading causes of mortality. The cases reported and the predictions for the near …

Strategies to diversify natural products for drug discovery

G Li, HX Lou - Medicinal research reviews, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Natural product libraries contain specialized metabolites derived from plants, animals, and
microorganisms that play a pivotal role in drug discovery due to their immense structural …

Structural simplification of natural products

S Wang, G Dong, C Sheng - Chemical Reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Natural products (NPs) are important sources of clinical drugs due to their structural diversity
and biological prevalidation. However, the structural complexity of NPs leads to synthetic …

Medicinal plants and bioactive natural compounds for cancer treatment: Important advances for drug discovery

F Majolo, LKOB Delwing, DJ Marmitt… - Phytochemistry …, 2019 - Elsevier
Cancer is one of the largest causes of morbimortality in the world and due to its prevalence
the discovery of novel anticancer drugs in of great importance. The past century brought …

Contemporary medicinal chemistry strategies for the discovery and development of novel HIV-1 non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors

Z Wang, S Cherukupalli, M Xie, W Wang… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Currently, HIV-1 non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs) are a major
component of the highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART) regimen. However, the …

Anticancer drug discovery from microbial sources: The unique mangrove streptomycetes

JWF Law, LNS Law, V Letchumanan, LTH Tan… - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Worldwide cancer incidence and mortality have always been a concern to the community.
The cancer mortality rate has generally declined over the years; however, there is still an …

Remodeling tumor microenvironment with natural products to overcome drug resistance

W Zhang, S Li, C Li, T Li, Y Huang - Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
With cancer incidence rates continuing to increase and occurrence of resistance in drug
treatment, there is a pressing demand to find safer and more effective anticancer strategy for …

A review of synthetic bioactive tetrahydro-β-carbolines: A medicinal chemistry perspective

J Wang, F Gong, T Liang, Z Xie, Y Yang, C Cao… - European Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract 1, 2, 3, 4-Tetrahydro-β-carboline (THβC) scaffold is widespread in many natural
products (NPs) and synthetic compounds which show a variety of pharmacological activities …

The progress towards novel herbicide modes of action and targeted herbicide development

B He, Y Hu, W Wang, W Yan, Y Ye - Agronomy, 2022 - mdpi.com
To date, effectively controlling resistant weeds has been a great challenge in modern
agricultural production. Developing new modes of action of herbicides would be an efficient …

Structural diversity and biological activities of novel secondary metabolites from endophytes

H Gao, G Li, HX Lou - Molecules, 2018 - mdpi.com
Exploration of structurally novel natural products greatly facilitates the discovery of
biologically active pharmacophores that are biologically validated starting points for the …