851651-89-3Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Structure-based design of selective high-affinity telomeric quadruplex-binding ligands
Lombardo, Caterina Maria,Martinez, Iria Sanchez,Haider, Shozeb,Gabelica, Valerie,De Pauw, Edwin,Moses, John E.,Neidle, Stephen
, p. 9116 - 9118 (2011/02/23)
A library of triazole-based telomeric quadruplex-selective ligands has been developed that mimic an established family of tri-substituted acridine-based ligands, using crystal structure data as a starting-point for computer-based design. Binding affinities, estimated by electrospray mass spectrometry, are in accord with the design concept.
UREYLENE DERIVATIVES
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, (2008/12/04)
The invention concerns compounds of Formula (I) or a salt, solvate or pro-drug thereof. The compounds may be used in therapy, particularly anti-cancer therapy.
Rational design of substituted diarylureas: A scaffold for binding to G-quadruplex motifs
Drewe, William C.,Nanjunda, Rupesh,Gunaratnam, Mekala,Beltran, Monica,Parkinson, Gary N.,Reszka, Anthony P.,Wilson, W. David,Neidle, Stephen
supporting information; experimental part, p. 7751 - 7767 (2009/12/07)
The design and synthesis of a series of urea-based nonpolycyclic aromatic ligands with alkylaminoanilino side chains as telomeric and genomic G-quadruplex DNA interacting agents are described. Their interactions with quadruplexes have been examined by means of fluorescent resonance energy transfer melting, circular dichroism, and surface plasmon resonance-based assays. These validate the design concept for such urea-based ligands and also show that they have significant selectivity over duplex DNA, as well as for particular G-quadruplexes. The ligand-quadruplex complexes were investigated by computational molecular modeling, providing further information on structure-activity relationships. Preliminary biological studies using short-term cell growth inhibition assays show that some of the ligands have cancer cell selectivity, although they appear to have low potency for intracellular telomeric G-quadruplex structures, suggesting that their cellular targets may be other, possibly oncogene-related quadruplexes.
Click chemistry assembly of G-quadruplex ligands incorporating a diarylurea scaffold and triazole linkers
Drewe, William C.,Neidle, Stephen
supporting information; scheme or table, p. 5295 - 5297 (2009/03/11)
A series of diarylurea ligands were designed to interact selectively with G-quadruplexes and were synthesised using copper(I) catalysed 'click' chemistry to incorporate the 1,4-substituted 1,2,3-triazole ring into the core of the ligands; the optimal ligands demonstrate a high degree of selective telomeric G-quadruplex stabilisation and are not cytotoxic in several cancer cell lines. The Royal Society of Chemistry.
