- Teaching an old scaffold new recognition tricks: Oligopyrrolamide antagonists of IAPP aggregation
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A library of N-substituted oligopyrrolamides was designed to modulate the aggregation kinetics of islet amyloid polypeptide (IAPP). IAPP is a hormonal peptide, co-secreted with insulin in the pancreatic β-cells. IAPP samples a variety of conformations, starting from a native random coil to membrane-associated α-helical intermediates and eventually terminates in the amyloid plaques rich in β-sheet structures. A growing body of evidence suggests that membrane bound α-helical intermediates are the key cytotoxic species that impair the functionality and viability of β-cells and contribute to the onset of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2). The N-substituted oligopyrrolamides were screened against the aggregation of IAPP using amyloid kinetic assays. A tripyrrole, ADH-101, was the most effective antagonist of IAPP fibrillation in a physiologically relevant lipid membrane system as well as under de novo conditions. ADH-101 induces/stabilizes a secondary structure in IAPP which potentially affects its downstream functions. ADH-101 efficiently affects IAPP-mediated liposome leakage and cell toxicity in insulin secreting cells. ADH-101 inhibits the elongation process potentially binding to the monomeric IAPP and attenuating its access to the preformed fibers. More importantly, oligopyrrolamides are better inhibitors of IAPP aggregation than analogous oligopyridylamides and have more desirable biological properties reflected by their partition coefficients. In essence, an oligopyrrolamide scaffold has been designed which modulates the membrane bound helical intermediates of IAPP and affects their downstream functions such as oligomerization, membrane poration, and cytotoxicity.
- Kumar, Sunil,Vogel, Maria C.,Hamilton, Andrew D.
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p. 733 - 741
(2018/02/09)
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- 4-(Anilino)pyrrole-2-carboxamides: Novel non-steroidal/non-anilide type androgen antagonists effective upon human prostate tumor LNCaP cells with mutated nuclear androgen receptor
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Various 4-(anilino)pyrrole-2-carboxamides were designed and synthesized as novel androgen receptor (AR) antagonists without steroidal or anilide structure, based on our strategy for developing full antagonists of nuclear receptors. Introduction of a bulky
- Wakabayashi, Ken-ichi,Imai, Keisuke,Miyachi, Hiroyuki,Hashimoto, Yuichi,Tanatani, Aya
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p. 6799 - 6812
(2008/12/22)
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- ELECTROCHEMICALLY ACTIVE LIGAND FOR SEQUENCE-SPECIFIC DETECTION OF DOUBLE-STRANDED NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULE
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The purpose of the present invention is to provide a compound that specifically binds to the base sequence of a double-stranded nucleic acid molecule. The compound can reduce the electrochemical signal/noise ratio (S/N) in electrochemical detection, and a
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(2010/11/24)
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- Use of ferrocene scaffolds as pendant groups in hairpin-type pyrrole-imidazole polyamide molecules showing sequence-selective binding to DNA duplexes
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The synthesis and properties of new conjugate molecules, Fc-PIA, composed of ferrocene (Fc) and pyrrole-imidazole polyamides (PIA) are reported. As a PIA sequence, we chose Im-Py-Im/Py-Im-Py considering its future application to the SNPs detection of gene
- Seio, Kohji,Mizuta, Masahiro,Terada, Takeshi,Sekine, Mitsuo
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p. 10311 - 10322
(2007/10/03)
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- DNA binding, solubility, and partitioning characteristics of extended lexitropsins
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Four new ligands that bind to the minor groove of DNA have been designed, synthesized, and evaluated by DNA footprinting. Two of the ligands are polyamides containing central regions with five or six N-methylpyrrole units, conferring hydrophobicity and go
- Fishleigh,Fox,Khalaf,Pitt,Scobie,Suckling,Urwin,Waigh,Young
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p. 3257 - 3266
(2007/10/03)
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- An alternative approach to the synthesis of lexitropsins
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An alternative approach to the synthesis of lexitropsins based on the elongation of an oligocarboxamide chain from the N-terminus of a molecule is discussed. This method was applied to the preparation of lexitropsins containing 1-methylpyrrole carboxamide, 1-methylimidazole carboxamide, and 1,3 thiazole carboxamide monomer units.
- Ryabinin,Sinyakov
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p. 531 - 536
(2007/10/03)
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- (2-imidazolin-2-yl) fused heteropyridine compounds, intermediates for the preparation of and use of said compounds as herbicidal agents
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There are provided novel (2-imidazolin-2-yl) fused heteropyridine compounds, and intermediate compounds for the preparation thereof, and a method for controlling a wide variety of annual and perennial plant species therewith.
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- Man-designed bleomycin with altered sequence specificity in DNA cleavage
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The synthetic approach to the concerted antitumor mechanism of bleomycin is studied by introducing a dynamic change into the O2-activation moiety and DNA-binding site. A model PYML(6)-bleomycin previously reported, possessing an oxygen-activating methoxypyridine moiety and a DNA-binding bithiazole moiety, exhibits a nucleotide cleavage mode virtually identical with that of bleomycin. Herein reported is a newly designed bleomycin analogue, PYML(6)-(4R-APA)-distamycin, wherein the 4-methoxypyridine moiety and a DNA-binding distamycin component are connected through an (R)-4-aminopentanoic acid linker moiety. Synthesis of PYML(6)-(4R-APA)-distamycin is carried out by condensation of the hydroxyhistidine-pentatoic acid fragment with the methoxypyridien moiety, followed by introducing of the distamycin moiety. PYML(6)-(4R-APA)-distamycin cleaves a G4 phage DNA fragment (100 base pairs) at 1 μM concentration in the presence of Fe(II), oxygen, and dithiothreitol and induces dramatically altered adenine/thymine specificity. It is indicated that the specific recognition of base sequences for the cleavage is mainly controlled by the DNA affinity site and that the (R)-4-aminopentanoic acid linker seems to determine the proper arrangement of the iron-oxygen site and the distamycin moiety on DNA.
- Otsuka,Masuda,Haupt,Ohno,Shiraki,Sugiura,Maeda
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p. 838 - 845
(2007/10/02)
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