Memantine derivatives as multitarget agents in Alzheimer's disease

G Marotta, F Basagni, M Rosini, A Minarini - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Memantine (3, 5-dimethyladamantan-1-amine) is an orally active, noncompetitive N-methyl-
D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) antagonist approved for treatment of moderate-to-severe …

Novel perspective for protein–drug interaction analysis: atomic force microscope

H Sun, J Wang - Analyst, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Proteins are major drug targets, and drug–target interaction identification and analysis are
important factors for drug discovery. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is a powerful tool …

Mechanistic Insight into the Amyloid Fibrillation Inhibition of Hen Egg White Lysozyme by Three Different Bile Acids

NA Jamuna, A Kamalakshan… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Amyloid aggregation of protein is linked to many neurodegenerative diseases. Identification
of small molecules capable of targeting amyloidogenic proteins has gained significant …

Tacrine–Benzothiazoles: Novel class of potential multitarget anti-Alzheimeŕs drugs dealing with cholinergic, amyloid and mitochondrial systems

E Nepovimova, L Svobodova, R Dolezal… - Bioorganic …, 2021 - Elsevier
A series of tacrine–benzothiazole hybrids incorporate inhibitors of acetylcholinesterase
(AChE), amyloid β (Aβ) aggregation and mitochondrial enzyme ABAD, whose interaction …

Small-molecule-functionalized hyperbranched polyglycerol dendrimers for inhibiting protein aggregation

S Mandal, P Panja, K Debnath, NR Jana… - …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Amyloid protein aggregation is responsible for a variety of neurodegenerative diseases, and
antiamyloidogenic small molecules are identified for inhibiting such protein aggregation at …

[HTML][HTML] Green tea leaf constituents inhibit the formation of lysozyme amyloid aggregates: An effect of mutual interactions

M Gancar, E Kurin, Z Bednarikova, J Marek… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Amyloidoses represent a group of pathological conditions characterized by amyloid fibrils
accumulating in the form of deposits in intra-or extracellular space, leading to tissue …

Inhibition and disruption of amyloid formation by the antibiotic levofloxacin: A new direction for antibiotics in an era of multi-drug resistance

AN Khan, IA Qureshi, UK Khan, VN Uversky… - Archives of Biochemistry …, 2021 - Elsevier
Neurodegenerative diseases are a group of debilitating maladies involving protein
aggregation. To this day, all advances in neurodegenerative disease therapeutics have …

Applications of “linkers” in fragment-based drug design

X Wu, Y Zhang, S Liu, C Liu, G Tang, X Cao, X Lei… - Bioorganic …, 2022 - Elsevier
Fragment-based drug discovery, as a complementary method to traditional screening, has a
broad momentum of development in academia, as well as large pharmaceutical companies …

Inhibition mechanism and hot-spot prediction of nine potential drugs for SARS-CoV-2 M pro by large-scale molecular dynamic simulations combined with accurate …

S Luo, K Huang, X Zhao, Y Cong, JZH Zhang, L Duan - Nanoscale, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which is caused by a new coronavirus known as
severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is spreading around the …

Furosemide Derails Human Lysozyme Fibrillation by Interacting with Aggregation Hot Spots: A Biophysical Comprehension

N Zaidi, O Ahmad, M Khursheed, F Nabi… - The Journal of …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Kidney-associated human lysozyme amyloidosis leads to renal impairments; thus, patients
are often prescribed furosemide. Based on this fact, the effect of furosemide on induced …