62290-55-5Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Design and biological evaluation of phenyl imidazole analogs as hedgehog signaling pathway inhibitors
Sun, Chiyu,Zhang, Ying,Wang, Han,Yin, Zhengxu,Wu, Lingqiong,Huang, Yanmiao,Zhang, Wenhu,Wang, Youbing,Hu, Qibo
, p. 546 - 552 (2020/10/06)
The hedgehog (Hh) signaling pathway is involved in diverse aspects of cellular events. Aberrant activation of Hh signaling pathway drives oncogenic transformation for a wide range of cancers, and it is therefore a promising target in cancer therapy. In the principle of association and ring-opening, we designed and synthesized a series of Hh signaling pathway inhibitors with phenyl imidazole scaffold, which were biologically evaluated in Gli-Luc reporter assay. Compound 25 was identified to possess high potency with nanomolar IC50, and moreover, it preserved the inhibition against wild-type and drug-resistant Smo-overexpressing cells. A molecular modeling study of compound 25 expounded its binding mode to Smo receptor, providing a basis for the further structural modification of phenyl imidazole analogs.
Synthesis and evaluation of novel N-3-benzimidazolephenylbisamide derivatives for antiproliferative and Hedgehog pathway inhibitory activity
Sun, Chiyu,Li, Yangsheng,Shi, Ailong,Zhang, Jingzhou,Li, Yafei,Zhao, Mingming,Zhang, Lijuan,Zheng, Huachuan,Meng, Ying,Ding, Huaiwei,Song, Hongrui
, p. 1137 - 1142 (2015/06/25)
A series of novel N-3-benzimidazolephenylbisamide derivatives bearing the 4-benzyloxyphenyl moiety were synthesized and evaluated for their antiproliferative activity against MGC803, HT29, MKN45 and SW620 cancer cell lines in vitro. The pharmacological data demonstrated that the majority of the target compounds exhibited higher efficacy against MGC803, HT29 and MKN45 cells, among which compound 7m displayed higher antiproliferative activity than vismodegib. Furthermore, compound 7m manifested better inhibition of the Hedgehog (Hh) signaling pathway in different Hh-related assays and may compete with boron-dipyrromethene (BODIPY)-cyclopamine for binding to the human smoothened (Smo) receptor. In addition, molecular docking studies suggested that compound 7m interacts very closely with the vismodegib docking pose through hydrogen bonds at the taladegib binding site of the Smo receptor.
Revisiting a receptor-based pharmacophore hypothesis for human A 2A adenosine receptor antagonists
Bacilieri, Magdalena,Ciancetta, Antonella,Paoletta, Silvia,Federico, Stephanie,Cosconati, Sandro,Cacciari, Barbara,Taliani, Sabrina,Da Settimo, Federico,Novellino, Ettore,Klotz, Karl Norbert,Spalluto, Giampiero,Moro, Stefano
, p. 1620 - 1637 (2013/08/23)
The application of both structure- and ligand-based design approaches represents to date one of the most useful strategies in the discovery of new drug candidates. In the present paper, we investigated how the application of docking-driven conformational analysis can improve the predictive ability of 3D-QSAR statistical models. With the use of the crystallographic structure in complex with the high affinity antagonist ZM 241385 (4-(2-[7-amino-2-(2-furyl) [1,2,4]-triazolo[2,3-a][1,3,5]triazin-5-ylamino]ethyl)phenol), we revisited a general pharmacophore hypothesis for the human A2A adenosine receptor of a set of 751 known antagonists, by applying an integrated ligand- and structure-based approach. Our novel pharmacophore hypothesis has been validated by using an external test set of 29 newly synthesized human adenosine receptor antagonists.
