The antifungal pipeline: a reality check

JR Perfect - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2017 - nature.com
Invasive fungal infections continue to appear in record numbers as the
immunocompromised population of the world increases, owing partially to the increased …

Ligand-targeted drug delivery

M Srinivasarao, PS Low - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Safety and efficacy constitute the major criteria governing regulatory approval of any new
drug. The best method to maximize safety and efficacy is to deliver a proven therapeutic …

Feeling nature's PAINS: natural products, natural product drugs, and pan assay interference compounds (PAINS)

JB Baell - Journal of natural products, 2016 - ACS Publications
We have previously reported on classes of compounds that can interfere with bioassays via
a number of different mechanisms and termed such compounds Pan Assay INterference …

Antifungal drugs: what brings the future?

R Van Daele, I Spriet, J Wauters, J Maertens… - Medical …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The high burden and growing prevalence of invasive fungal infections (IFIs), the toxicity and
interactions associated with current antifungal drugs, as well as the increasing resistance …

Rational design of multitarget-directed ligands: strategies and emerging paradigms

J Zhou, X Jiang, S He, H Jiang, F Feng… - Journal of medicinal …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Due to the complexity of multifactorial diseases, single-target drugs do not always exhibit
satisfactory efficacy. Recently, increasing evidence indicates that simultaneous modulation …

Therapeutic potential of spirooxindoles as antiviral agents

N Ye, H Chen, EA Wold, PY Shi, J Zhou - ACS infectious diseases, 2016 - ACS Publications
Antiviral therapeutics with profiles of high potency, low resistance, panserotype, and low
toxicity remain challenging, and obtaining such agents continues to be an active area of …

The ecstasy and agony of assay interference compounds

C Aldrich, C Bertozzi, GI Georg… - ACS Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The ecstasy of discovering a new hit from screening can lead to a highly productive research
effort to discover new bioactive compounds. However, in too many cases this ecstasy is …

[HTML][HTML] The next level in chemical space navigation: going far beyond enumerable compound libraries

T Hoffmann, M Gastreich - Drug discovery today, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Mining pharmacophore-based virtual and tangible, novel chemical spaces are
examined.•Using intelligent prediction software leads to much faster wet lab …

Iron acquisition systems of gram-negative bacterial pathogens define TonB-dependent pathways to novel antibiotics

PE Klebba, SMC Newton, DA Six, A Kumar… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Iron is an indispensable metabolic cofactor in both pro-and eukaryotes, which engenders a
natural competition for the metal between bacterial pathogens and their human or animal …

Direct targeting of β‐catenin in the Wnt signaling pathway: Current progress and perspectives

Z Wang, Z Li, H Ji - Medicinal research reviews, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aberrant activation of the Wnt/β‐catenin signaling circuit is associated with cancer
recurrence and relapse, cancer invasion and metastasis, and cancer immune evasion …