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Urea based foldamers
Yoo, Sung Hyun,Li, Bo,Dolain, Christel,Pasco, Morgane,Guichard, Gilles
, p. 59 - 92 (2021/06/25)
N,N′-linked oligoureas are a class of enantiopure, sequence-defined peptidomimetic oligomers without amino acids that form well-defined and predictable helical structures akin to the peptide α-helix. Oligourea-based foldamers combine a number of features—such as synthetic accessibility, sequence modularity, and folding fidelity—that bode well for their use in a range of applications from medicinal chemistry to catalysis. Moreover, it was recently recognized that this synthetic helical backbone can be combined with regular peptides to generate helically folded peptide-oligourea hybrids that display additional features in terms of helix mimicry and protein-surface recognition properties. Here we provide detailed protocols for the preparation of requested monomers and for the synthesis and purification of homo-oligoureas and peptide-oligourea hybrids.
Synthesis, biological evaluation, and molecular modeling studies of chiral chloroquine analogues as antimalarial agents
Kondaparla, Srinivasarao,Debnath, Utsab,Dola, Vasantha Rao,Sinha, Manish,Katti, Seturam B.,Soni, Awakash,Srivastava, Kumkum,Puri, Sunil K.
, (2019/01/05)
In a focused exploration, we designed, synthesized, and biologically evaluated chiral conjugated new chloroquine (CQ) analogues with substituted piperazines as antimalarial agents. In vitro as well as in vivo studies revealed that compound 7c showed potent activity (in vitro 50% inhibitory concentration, 56.98 nM for strain 3D7 and 97.76 nM for strain K1; selectivity index in vivo [up to at a dose of 12.5 mg/kg of body weight], 3,510) as a new lead antimalarial agent. Other compounds (compounds 6b, 6d, 7d, 7h, 8c, 8d, 9a, and 9c) also showed moderate activity against a CQ-sensitive strain (3D7) and superior activity against a CQ-resistant strain (K1) of Plasmodium falciparum. Furthermore, we carried out docking and three-dimensional quantitative structure-activity relationship (3D-QSAR) studies of all in-house data sets (168 molecules) of chiral CQ analogues to explain the structure-activity relationships (SAR). Our new findings specify the significance of the H-bond interaction with the side chain of heme for biological activity. In addition, the 3D-QSAR study against the 3D7 strain indicated the favorable and unfavorable sites of CQ analogues for incorporating steric, hydrophobic, and electropositive groups to improve the antimalarial activity.
Synthesis, SAR and biological studies of sugar amino acid-based almiramide analogues: N-methylation leads the way
Das, Dipendu,Khan, Hina P. A.,Shivahare, Rahul,Gupta, Suman,Sarkar, Jayanta,Siddiqui, Mohd. Imran,Ampapathi, Ravi Sankar,Chakraborty, Tushar Kanti
, p. 3337 - 3352 (2017/04/21)
Leishmaniasis, caused by the protozoan parasites of the genus Leishmania, is one of the most neglected diseases endemic in many continents posing enormous global health threats and therefore the discovery of new antileishmanial compounds is of utmost urgency. The antileishmanial activities of a library of sugar amino acid-based linear lipopeptide analogues were examined with the aim to identify potential drug candidates to treat visceral leishmaniasis. It was found that among the synthesized analogues, most of the permethylated compounds exhibited more activity in in vitro studies against intra-macrophagic amastigotes than the non-methylated analogues. SAR and NMR studies revealed that introduction of the N-methyl groups inhibited the formation of any turn structure in these molecules, which led to their improved activities.