Click chemistry assembly of G-quadruplex ligands incorporating a diarylurea scaffold and triazole linkers
作者:William C. Drewe、Stephen Neidle
DOI:10.1039/b814576h
日期:——
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.
Copper-Catalyzed Synthesis of Benzoxazoles via a Regioselective C−H Functionalization/C−O Bond Formation under an Air Atmosphere
作者:Satoshi Ueda、Hideko Nagasawa
DOI:10.1021/jo900513z
日期:2009.6.5
An efficient method for the synthesis of functionalized benzoxazoles is described that involves a copper(II)-catalyzed regioselective C-H functionalization/C-O bond formation protocol. The use of dichlorobenzene as a solvent at 160 degrees C allows the use of air as the tern-final oxidant in the catalytic synthesis of benzoxazoles in a process that has high functional group tolerance. The presence of a directing group at the meta position markedly improves the reaction efficacy and a variety of 7-substituted benzoxazoles are selectively produced under mild reaction conditions. The mechanism of the reaction is also discussed in this report.
Exploring DOXP-reductoisomerase binding limits using phosphonated N-aryl and N-heteroarylcarboxamides as DXR inhibitors
作者:Taryn Bodill、Anne C. Conibear、Marius K.M. Mutorwa、Jessica L. Goble、Gregory L. Blatch、Kevin A. Lobb、Rosalyn Klein、Perry T. Kaye
DOI:10.1016/j.bmc.2013.04.076
日期:2013.7
DOXP-reductoisomerase (DXR) is a validated target for the development of antimalarial drugs to address the increase in resistant strains of Plasmodium falciparum. Series of aryl- and heteroarylcarbamoylphosphonic acids, their diethyl esters and disodium salts have been prepared as analogues of the potent DXR inhibitor fosmidomycin. The effects of the carboxamide N-substituents and the length of the methylene linker have been explored using in silico docking studies, saturation transfer difference NMR spectroscopy and enzyme inhibition assays using both EcDXR and PfDXR. These studies indicate an optimal linker length of two methylene units and have confirmed the importance of an additional binding pocket in the PfDXR active site. Insights into the constraints of the PfDXR binding site provide additional scope for the rational design of DXR inhibitors with increased ligand-receptor interactions. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Rational Design of Substituted Diarylureas: A Scaffold for Binding to G-Quadruplex Motifs
作者:William C. Drewe、Rupesh Nanjunda、Mekala Gunaratnam、Monica Beltran、Gary N. Parkinson、Anthony P. Reszka、W. David Wilson、Stephen Neidle
DOI:10.1021/jm801245v
日期:2008.12.25
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 shortterm 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,