Recent trends in extraction of plant bioactives using green technologies: A review

M Kumar, A Dahuja, S Tiwari, S Punia, Y Tak… - Food Chemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
Phenolic compounds from plant sources have significant health-promoting properties and
are known to be an integral part of folk and herbal medicines. Consumption of phenolics is …

Natural products can be used in therapeutic management of COVID-19: Probable mechanistic insights

S Ali, M Alam, F Khatoon, U Fatima, AM Elasbali… - Biomedicine & …, 2022 - Elsevier
The unexpected emergence of the new Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has affected more
than three hundred million individuals and resulted in more than five million deaths …

Rosmarinic acid exhibits anticancer effects via MARK4 inhibition

S Anwar, A Shamsi, M Shahbaaz, A Queen, P Khan… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Microtubule affinity regulating kinase (MARK4) is a potential drug target for different types of
cancer as it controls the early step of cell division. In this study, we have screened a series of …

Pharmacological activity of quercetin: an updated review

G Wang, Y Wang, L Yao, W Gu, S Zhao… - Evidence‐Based …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Quercetin, a natural flavonoid compound with a widespread occurrence throughout the plant
kingdom, exhibits a variety of pharmacological activities. Because of the wide spectrum of …

Targeting pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase signaling in the development of effective cancer therapy

S Anwar, A Shamsi, T Mohammad, A Islam… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2021 - Elsevier
Pyruvate is irreversibly decarboxylated to acetyl coenzyme A by mitochondrial pyruvate
dehydrogenase complex (PDC). Decarboxylation of pyruvate is considered a crucial step in …

Studying the interaction of drug/ligand with serum albumin

S Siddiqui, F Ameen, S ur Rehman, T Sarwar… - Journal of Molecular …, 2021 - Elsevier
The interaction between proteins and drugs/ligands has been explored thoroughly over the
past years. Numerous spectroscopic and in silico tools are employed to decipher the binding …

Virtual screening approach to identify high-affinity inhibitors of serum and glucocorticoid-regulated kinase 1 among bioactive natural products: Combined molecular …

T Mohammad, S Siddiqui, A Shamsi, MF Alajmi… - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Serum and glucocorticoid-regulated kinase 1 (SGK1) is a serine/threonine kinase that works
under acute transcriptional control by several stimuli, including serum and glucocorticoids. It …

Flavonoids targeting HIF-1: Implications on cancer metabolism

M Samec, A Liskova, L Koklesova, S Mersakova… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary This comprehensive review discusses the anticancer effects of plant
phenolic compounds, known as flavonoids, through the targeting of HIF-1 and critical …

MARK4 inhibited by AChE inhibitors, donepezil and Rivastigmine tartrate: insights into Alzheimer's disease therapy

A Shamsi, S Anwar, T Mohammad, MF Alajmi… - Biomolecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Microtubule affinity-regulating kinase (MARK4) plays a key role in Alzheimer's disease (AD)
development as its overexpression is directly linked to increased tau phosphorylation …

Ellagic acid controls cell proliferation and induces apoptosis in breast cancer cells via inhibition of cyclin-dependent kinase 6

M Yousuf, A Shamsi, P Khan, M Shahbaaz… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 6 (CDK6) plays an important role in cancer progression, and thus,
it is considered as an attractive drug target in anticancer therapeutics. This study presents an …