- Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of quinoxaline compounds as anti-HIV agents targeting reverse transcriptase enzyme
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Infection by human immunodeficiency virus still represents a continuous serious concern and a global threat to human health. Due to appearance of multi-resistant virus strains and the serious adverse side effects of the antiretroviral therapy administered, there is an urgent need for the development of new treatment agents, more active, less toxic and with increased tolerability to mutations. Quinoxaline derivatives are an emergent class of heterocyclic compounds with a wide spectrum of biological activities and therapeutic applications. These types of compounds have also shown high potency in the inhibition of HIV reverse transcriptase and HIV replication in cell culture. For these reasons we propose, in this work, the design, synthesis and biological evaluation of quinoxaline derivatives targeting HIV reverse transcriptase enzyme. For this, we first carried out a structure-based development of target-specific compound virtual chemical library of quinoxaline derivatives. The rational construction of the virtual chemical library was based on previously assigned pharmacophore features. This library was processed by a virtual screening protocol employing molecular docking and 3D-QSAR. Twenty-five quinoxaline compounds were selected for synthesis in the basis of their docking and 3D-QSAR scores and chemical synthetic simplicity. They were evaluated as inhibitors of the recombinant wild-type reverse transcriptase enzyme. Finally, the anti-HIV activity and cytotoxicity of the synthesized quinoxaline compounds with highest reverse transcriptase inhibitory capabilities was evaluated. This simple screening strategy led to the discovery of two selective and potent quinoxaline reverse transcriptase inhibitors with high selectivity index.
- Estrin, Darío,Fabian, Lucas,Gómez, Natalia,Moglioni, Albertina,Salvatori, Melina,Taverna Porro, Marisa,Turk, Gabriela
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- Design, synthesis, molecular modeling and anti-hyperglycemic evaluation of novel quinoxaline derivatives as potential PPARγ and SUR agonists
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In our effort to develop potent anti-hyperglycemic agents with potential agonistic activities toward PPARγ and SUR, three novel series of quinoxaline derivatives bearing sulfonylurea or sulfonylthiourea moieties with different linkers were designed and synthesized. Some of the newly synthesized compounds were evaluated in vivo for their anti-hyperglycemic activities in STZ-induced hyperglycemic rats. Compounds 15a, 15e, 19band 24aexhibited the highest anti-hyperglycemic activities with % reduction in blood glucose level of (50.58, 43.84, 45.10 and 49.62, respectively). Additionally, eight compounds revealed potent anti-hyperglycemic activities were further evaluated in vitro for their PPARγ binding affinity and insulin-secreting ability as potential mechanisms for anti-hyperglycemic activity. Four compounds (15a, 15b, 15dand 15e) significantly bound to PPARγ with IC50values of 0.482, 0.491, 0.350 and 0.369 μM, respectively. Moreover, Compounds 15aand 15bhave demonstrated induction of insulin-secretion with EC50values of 0.92 and 0.98 μM, respectively. Furthermore, molecular docking and pharmacophore generation techniques were carried out to investigate binding patterns and fit values of the designed compounds with PPARγ and SUR, respectively.
- Ibrahim, Mohammed K.,Eissa, Ibrahim H.,Abdallah, Abdallah E.,Metwaly, Ahmed M.,Radwan,ElSohly
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p. 1496 - 1513
(2017/02/10)
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- Design, molecular docking and synthesis of some novel 4-acetyl-1-substituted-3,4-dihydroquinoxalin-2(1H)-one derivatives for anticonvulsant evaluation as AMPA-receptor antagonists
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A new series of 4-acetyl-1-substituted-3,4-dihydroquinoxalin-2(1H)-ones (2–13) were designed and synthesized in order to evaluate their AMPA-receptor antagonism as a potential mode of anticonvulsant activity. The structure of the synthesized compounds was
- El-Helby, Abdel-Ghany A.,Ayyad, Rezk R. A.,El-Adl, Khaled,Sakr, Helmy,Abd-Elrahman, Ashraf A.,Eissa, Ibrahim H.,Elwan, Alaa
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p. 3030 - 3046
(2016/11/09)
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- Synthesis of novel quinoxalinone derivatives by conventional and microwave methods and assessing their biological activity
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In this study, twenty-one arylaminoquinoxalinone derivatives were synthesized and their antibacterial activities against Staphylococci aureus, Pseudomonas aureus, Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis, Salmonella typhi, and Shigella pneumoniae were evaluated relative to known antibiotics; augmentin, ampicillin, and chloramphenicol. The insecticidal activities of the prepared compounds were also investigated against Tribolium castaneum using permethrin as a standard insecticide. The derivatives were synthesized using both conventional and microwave techniques. Their structures were confirmed using spectral techniques and elemental analysis.
- Nasir, Waqar,Munawar, Munawar Ali,Ahmed, Ejaz,Sharif, Ahsan,Ahmed, Saeed,Ayub, Amjad,Khan, Misbahul Ain,Nasim, Faizul Hassan
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p. 1605 - 1614
(2012/03/26)
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