Biochemical significance of limonene and its metabolites: future prospects for designing and developing highly potent anticancer drugs

YM Mukhtar, M Adu-Frimpong, X Xu, J Yu - Bioscience Reports, 2018 - portlandpress.com
Monocyclic monoterpenes have been recognized as useful pharmacological ingredients
due to their ability to treat numerous diseases. Limonene and perillyl alcohol as well as their …

Chemical modulation of chaperone-mediated autophagy by retinoic acid derivatives

J Anguiano, TP Garner, M Mahalingam, BC Das… - Nature chemical …, 2013 - nature.com
Chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA) contributes to cellular quality control and the
cellular response to stress through the selective degradation of cytosolic proteins in …

Recent highlights on molecular hybrids potentially useful in central nervous system disorders

M Matias, S Silvestre, A Falcao… - Mini Reviews in …, 2017 - ingentaconnect.com
Molecular hybridization is a recent strategy based on the covalent fusion of two or more
pharmacophores to create a single molecule with multiple mechanisms of action, which …

Synthesis of novel perillyl–dihydropyrimidinone hybrids designed for antiproliferative activity

V Vendrusculo, VP de Souza, LAM Fontoura… - …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
A series of fifteen novel dihydropyrimidinone hybrid compounds were synthesized in good
yields via a multicomponent reaction combined with the Huisgen reaction. The …

The identification of perillyl alcohol glycosides with improved antiproliferative activity

NS Nandurkar, J Zhang, Q Ye… - Journal of medicinal …, 2014 - ACS Publications
A facile route to perillyl alcohol (POH) differential glycosylation and the corresponding
synthesis of a set of 34 POH glycosides is reported. Subsequent in vitro studies revealed a …

Targeting gliomas: can a new alkylating hybrid compound make a difference?

R Pinheiro, C Braga, G Santos… - ACS Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common and aggressive type of brain tumor in adults. The
triazene Temozolomide (TMZ), an alkylating drug, is the classical chemotherapeutic agent …

Efficient Synthesis of (R)-(+)-Perillyl Alcohol From (R)-(+)-Limonene Using Engineered Escherichia coli Whole Cell Biocatalyst

C Sun, R Zhang, C Xie - Frontiers in Bioengineering and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
(R)-(+)-perillyl alcohol is a much valued supplemental compound with a wide range of
agricultural and pharmacological characteristics. The aim of this study was to improve (R) …

Chemotherapy of leishmaniasis part XIII: Design and synthesis of novel heteroretinoid-bisbenzylidine ketone hybrids as antileishmanial agents

A Tiwari, S Kumar, R Shivahare, P Kant, S Gupta… - Bioorganic & Medicinal …, 2015 - Elsevier
Some novel heteroretinoid-bisbenzylidine ketone hybrids have been synthesized and
evaluated for their in vitro antileishmanial activity against intramacrophagic amastigotes of …

Biosynthesis of (R)‐(+)‐perillyl alcohol by Escherichia coli expressing neryl pyrophosphate synthase

C Sun, R Zhang, C Xie - Engineering in Life Sciences, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract (R)‐(+)‐perillyl alcohol is widely used in agricultural and anticarcinogenic fields.
Microbial production of (R)‐(+)‐perillyl alcohol was investigated in this study. We optimized …

Synthesis and antiproliferative effects of amino-modified perillyl alcohol derivatives

Z Hui, M Zhang, L Cong, M Xia, J Dong - Molecules, 2014 - mdpi.com
Two series of amino-modified derivatives of (S)-perillyl alcohol were designed and
synthesized using (S)-perillaldehyde as the starting material. These derivatives showed …