Imidazoles as potential anticancer agents: An update on recent studies

P Sharma, C LaRosa, J Antwi, R Govindarajan… - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Nitrogen-containing heterocyclic rings are common structural components of marketed
drugs. Among these heterocycles, imidazole/fused imidazole rings are present in a wide …

Targeting cancer through recently developed purine clubbed heterocyclic scaffolds: An overview

A Chaurasiya, C Sahu, SK Wahan… - Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cancer is the world's major health issue, scavenging lives of millions throughout the world. A
number of anticancer drugs have figured prominently in the diagnosis and treatment of …

Molecular overlay-guided design of new CDK2 inhibitor thiazepinopurines: Synthesis, anticancer, and mechanistic investigations

EM Husseiny, HS Abulkhair, A Saleh, N Altwaijry… - Bioorganic …, 2023 - Elsevier
Adopting the molecular overlay approach, three novel sets of thiazepinopurines with
expected cytotoxicity and CDK2 inhibition potential were designed and synthesized. This …

Novel purine derivatives as selective CDK2 inhibitors with potential anticancer activities: Design, synthesis and biological evaluation

A Shah, N Teraiya, JH Kamdar, T Juneja… - Bioorganic …, 2024 - Elsevier
Purine analogues were discovered to be inhibitors of CDK2, suggesting a potential
therapeutic scaffold. This paper addresses the design, synthesis, and anticancer evaluation …

A new smoothened antagonist bearing the purine scaffold shows antitumour activity in vitro and in vivo

AM Zárate, C Espinosa-Bustos, S Guerrero… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The Smoothened (SMO) receptor is the most druggable target in the Hedgehog (HH)
pathway for anticancer compounds. However, SMO antagonists such as vismodegib rapidly …

Design, synthesis, and evaluation of novel isothiazole-purines as a pyruvate kinase-based fungicidal lead compound

W Wang, Z Li, W Gao, X Liu, Y Lv, Z Hao… - Journal of Agricultural …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Target identification is one of the most important bases for novel pesticide development;
pyruvate kinase (PK) was discovered as a potent fungicide target in our previous studies. To …

Design, Synthesis, In Silico Studies and Inhibitory Activity towards Bcr-Abl, BTK and FLT3-ITD of New 2, 6, 9-Trisubstituted Purine Derivatives as Potential Agents for …

J Bertrand, H Dostálová, V Kryštof, R Jorda, T Delgado… - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
We report 31 new compounds designed, synthesized and evaluated on Bcr-Abl, BTK and
FLT3-ITD as part of our program to develop 2, 6, 9-trisubstituted purine derivatives as …

Synthesis and Cytotoxic Activity of the Derivatives of N-(Purin-6-yl)aminopolymethylene Carboxylic Acids and Related Compounds

VP Krasnov, OA Vozdvizhenskaya, MA Baryshnikova… - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
Testing a number of N-[omega-(purin-6-yl) aminoalkanoyl] derivatives of 7, 8-difluoro-3, 4-
dihydro-3-methyl-2 H-[1, 4] benzoxazine in a panel of nine tumor cell lines has shown that …

New Smoothened ligands based on the purine scaffold as potential agents for treating pancreatic cancer

C Espinosa-Bustos, J Bertrand, A Villegas-Menares… - Bioorganic …, 2024 - Elsevier
Aberrant activation of the Hedgehog (Hh) signalling pathway has been associated with the
development and progression of pancreatic cancer. For this reason, blockade of Hh pathway …

Synthesis, antitumoral activity, and in silico studies on Smoothened receptor of new 2, 6, 9-trisubstituted purine derivatives

C Espinosa-Bustos, AM Zárate, A Castro-Álvarez… - Journal of Molecular …, 2025 - Elsevier
In this work, a series of 30 new 2, 6, 9-trisubstituted purine derivatives were synthesised and
evaluated in silico as potential ligands of the Smoothened (SMO) receptor, as well as their …