Deuterium in drug discovery: progress, opportunities and challenges

RMC Di Martino, BD Maxwell, T Pirali - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2023 - nature.com
Substitution of a hydrogen atom with its heavy isotope deuterium entails the addition of one
neutron to a molecule. Despite being a subtle change, this structural modification, known as …

Functions of ROS in macrophages and antimicrobial immunity

M Herb, M Schramm - Antioxidants, 2021 - mdpi.com
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are a chemically defined group of reactive molecules
derived from molecular oxygen. ROS are involved in a plethora of processes in cells in all …

The central role of cytochrome P450 in xenobiotic metabolism—a brief review on a fascinating enzyme family

F Esteves, J Rueff, M Kranendonk - Journal of xenobiotics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Human Cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes constitute a superfamily of membrane-bound
hemoproteins that are responsible for the metabolism of a wide variety of clinically …

Role of cytochrome P450s in the generation and metabolism of reactive oxygen species

A Veith, B Moorthy - Current opinion in toxicology, 2018 - Elsevier
The cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes are a diverse group of heme monooxygenases that,
through the course of their reaction cycle, can contribute to cellular reactive oxygen species …

Antidepressants-and antipsychotics-induced hepatotoxicity

N Todorović Vukotić, J Đorđević, S Pejić… - Archives of …, 2021 - Springer
Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is a serious health burden. It has diverse clinical
presentations that can escalate to acute liver failure. The worldwide increase in the use of …

Involvement of cytochrome P450 enzymes in inflammation and cancer: a review

MC Stipp, A Acco - Cancer chemotherapy and pharmacology, 2021 - Springer
Cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes are responsible for the biotransformation of drugs,
xenobiotics, and endogenous substances. This enzymatic activity can be modulated by …

Fungal Cytochrome P450s and the P450 Complement (CYPome) of Fusarium graminearum

J Shin, JE Kim, YW Lee, H Son - Toxins, 2018 - mdpi.com
Cytochrome P450s (CYPs), heme-containing monooxygenases, play important roles in a
wide variety of metabolic processes important for development as well as biotic/trophic …

Precision dosing priority criteria: drug, disease, and patient population variables

RJ Tyson, CC Park, JR Powell, JH Patterson… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The administered dose of a drug modulates whether patients will experience optimal
effectiveness, toxicity including death, or no effect at all. Dosing is particularly important for …

Semiconductor photocatalysis to engineering deuterated N-alkyl pharmaceuticals enabled by synergistic activation of water and alkanols

Z Zhang, C Qiu, Y Xu, Q Han, J Tang, KP Loh… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Precisely controlled deuterium labeling at specific sites of N-alkyl drugs is crucial in drug-
development as over 50% of the top-selling drugs contain N-alkyl groups, in which it is very …

Luminogenic cytochrome P450 assays

JJ Cali, D Ma, M Sobol, DJ Simpson… - Expert opinion on …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Luminogenic cytochrome P450 (CYP) assays couple CYP enzyme activity to firefly
luciferase luminescence in a technology called P450-GloTM (Promega). Luminogenic …