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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.
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.
