Developing new hybrid scaffold for urease inhibition based on carbazole-chalcone conjugates: Synthesis, assessment of therapeutic potential and computational …

M Kazmi, I Khan, A Khan, SA Halim, A Saeed… - Bioorganic & Medicinal …, 2019 - Elsevier
Although a diverse range of chemical entities offering striking therapeutic potential against
urease enzyme has been reported, the key challenges (toxicity and safety) associated with …

Effect of Zn⋅⋅⋅ Zn separation on the hydrolytic activity of model dizinc phosphodiesterases

B Bauer‐Siebenlist, F Meyer, E Farkas… - … A European Journal, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
From the study of highly preorganized model systems, experimental support has been
obtained for a possible functional role of the Zn–(H) O⋅⋅⋅ HO (H)–Zn motif in oligozinc …

Fluoride inhibition of Sporosarcina pasteurii urease: structure and thermodynamics

S Benini, M Cianci, L Mazzei, S Ciurli - JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic …, 2014 - Springer
Urease is a nickel-dependent enzyme and a virulence factor for ureolytic bacterial human
pathogens, but it is also necessary to convert urea, the most worldwide used fertilizer, into …

Design and synthesis of new barbituric-and thiobarbituric acid derivatives as potent urease inhibitors: Structure activity relationship and molecular modeling studies

A Rauf, S Shahzad, M Bajda, M Yar, F Ahmed… - Bioorganic & Medicinal …, 2015 - Elsevier
In this study 36 new compounds were synthesized by condensing barbituric acid or
thiobarbituric acid and respective anilines (bearing different substituents) in the presence of …

Large-scale virtual screening for the identification of new Helicobacter pylori urease inhibitor scaffolds

H Azizian, F Nabati, A Sharifi, F Siavoshi… - Journal of molecular …, 2012 - Springer
Here, we report a structure-based virtual screening of the ZINC database (containing about
five million compounds) by computational docking and the analysis of docking energy …

Design, synthesis, and evaluation of novel organophosphorus inhibitors of bacterial ureases

S Vassiliou, A Grabowiecka… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2008 - ACS Publications
A new group of organophosphorus inhibitors of urease, P-methyl phosphinic acids was
discovered by using the structure based inhibitor design approach. Several derivatives of …

The crystal structure of Sporosarcina pasteurii urease in a complex with citrate provides new hints for inhibitor design

S Benini, P Kosikowska, M Cianci, L Mazzei… - JBIC Journal of …, 2013 - Springer
Urease, the enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of urea, is a virulence factor for a large
number of ureolytic bacterial human pathogens. The increasing resistance of these …

X-ray structure of a dihydropyrimidinase from Thermus sp. at 1.3 Å resolution

J Abendroth, K Niefind, D Schomburg - Journal of molecular biology, 2002 - Elsevier
Dihydropyrimidinases (hydantoinases) catalyse the reversible hydrolytic ring-opening of
cyclic diamides such as dihydropyrimidines in the catabolism of pyrimidines. In …

Identification of novel urease inhibitors by high-throughput virtual and in vitro screening

OR Abid, TM Babar, FI Ali, S Ahmed… - ACS Medicinal …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Ureases are important in both agriculture and human health. Bacterial ureases are directly
involved in many farm-field problems and pathological conditions. Here, we report a …

Insights into Urease Inhibition by N-(n-Butyl) Phosphoric Triamide through an Integrated Structural and Kinetic Approach

L Mazzei, M Cianci, U Contaldo… - Journal of agricultural and …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The nickel-dependent enzyme urease represents a negative element for the efficiency of soil
nitrogen fertilization as well as a virulence factor for a large number of pathogenic and …