Counting on natural products for drug design

T Rodrigues, D Reker, P Schneider, G Schneider - Nature chemistry, 2016 - nature.com
Natural products and their molecular frameworks have a long tradition as valuable starting
points for medicinal chemistry and drug discovery. Recently, there has been a revitalization …

Modulators of protein–protein interactions

LG Milroy, TN Grossmann, S Hennig… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Since Hedin's characterization of trypsin and antitrypsin in 1906,(1) arguably the first
account of a regulatory protein–protein interaction (PPI), contemporary understanding of …

New horizons for old drugs and drug leads

GM Cragg, PG Grothaus… - Journal of natural products, 2014 - ACS Publications
There is mounting urgency to find new drugs for the treatment of serious infectious diseases
and cancer that are rapidly developing resistance to previously effective drugs. One …

Scaffold diversity synthesis and its application in probe and drug discovery

M Garcia‐Castro, S Zimmermann… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Scaffold diversity is a crucial feature of compound collections that has a huge impact on their
success in biological screenings. The synthesis of highly complex and diverse scaffolds …

Re-engineering natural products to engage new biological targets

SE Motika, PJ Hergenrother - Natural product reports, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to 2020 Natural products have a long history in drug discovery, with their
inherent biological activity often tailored by medicinal chemists to arrive at the final drug …

Recent ring distortion reactions for diversifying complex natural products

Y Li, S Cheng, Y Tian, Y Zhang, Y Zhao - Natural Product Reports, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2013–2022. Chemical diversification of natural products is an efficient way to
generate natural product-like compounds for modern drug discovery programs. Utilizing ring …

Progress toward the development of noscapine and derivatives as anticancer agents

A DeBono, B Capuano… - Journal of medicinal …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Many nitrogen-moiety containing alkaloids derived from plant origins are bioactive and play
a significant role in human health and emerging medicine. Noscapine, a …

Development of Natural Compound Molecular Fingerprint (NC-MFP) with the Dictionary of Natural Products (DNP) for natural product-based drug development

M Seo, HK Shin, Y Myung, S Hwang, KT No - Journal of Cheminformatics, 2020 - Springer
Computer-aided research on the relationship between molecular structures of natural
compounds (NC) and their biological activities have been carried out extensively because …

Quinap and congeners: atropos PN ligands for asymmetric catalysis

E Fernandez, PJ Guiry, KPT Connole… - The Journal of organic …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Among the range of P, N-chelating ligands that have been employed in asymmetric
catalysis, those relying on atropisomerism for the stability of individual enantiomers form a …

Bioengineering of anti‐inflammatory natural products

L Winand, A Sester, M Nett - ChemMedChem, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Inflammatory processes occur as a generic response of the immune system and can be
triggered by various factors, such as infection with pathogenic microorganisms or damaged …