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In the quest for improving the clinical outcome of patients with metastatic genitourinary cancers, including metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC), the emphasis often is on finding new targeted therapies. However, two studies by Jordan et al. (Oncogenesis 2020) and Wang et al. (Cancer Cell Int 2022) demonstrate the feasibility of improving the efficacy of a modestly effective drug Sorafenib against mRCC by attacking a mechanism hijacked by RCC cells for inactivating Sorafenib. The studies also identified hyaluronic acid synthase -3 (HAS3) as a bonafide target of Sorafenib in RCC cells. The studies demonstrate that an over-the-counter drug Hymecromone (4-methylumbelliferone) blocks inactivation of Sorafenib in RCC cells and improves its efficacy against mRCC through the inhibition of HAS3 expression and HA signaling. In the broader context, improving the efficacy of "old and failed drugs" that have favorable safety profiles should increase the availability of effective treatments for patients with advanced cancers.
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The paucity of preclinical models that recapitulate COVID-19 pathology without requiring SARS-COV-2 adaptation and humanized/transgenic mice limits research into new therapeutics against the frequently emerging variants-of-concern. We developed virus-free models by C57BL/6 mice receiving oropharyngeal instillations of a SARS-COV-2 ribo-oligonucleotide common in all variants or specific to Delta/Omicron variants, concurrently with low-dose bleomycin. Mice developed COVID-19-like lung pathologies including ground-glass opacities, interstitial fibrosis, congested alveoli, and became moribund. Lung tissues from these mice and bronchoalveolar lavage and lung tissues from patients with COVID-19 showed elevated levels of hyaluronic acid (HA), HA-family members, an inflammatory signature, and immune cell infiltration. 4-methylumbelliferone (4-MU), an oral drug for biliary-spasm treatment, inhibits HA-synthesis. At the human equivalent dose, 4-MU prevented/inhibited COVID-19-like pathologies and long-term morbidity; 4-MU and metabolites accumulated in mice lungs. Therefore, these versatile SARS-COV-2 ribo-oligonucleotide oropharyngeal models recapitulate COVID-19 pathology, with HA as its critical mediator and 4-MU as a potential therapeutic for COVID-19.
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BACKGROUND: Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) is the causative agent of AIDS occurs across mucosal surfaces or by direct inoculation. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to consider chemically diverse scaffold sets of HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors (HIV-1 RTI) subjected to ideal oriented QSAR with large descriptor space. METHOD: We generated a four-parameter QSAR model based on 111 data points, which provided an optimum prediction of HIV-1 RTI for overall 367 experimentally measured compounds. RESULTS: The robustness of the model is demonstrated by its statistical validation (Ntraining = 111, R2 = 0.85, Q2lmo = 0.84) and by the prediction of HIV-1 inhibition activity for experimentally measured compounds. CONCLUSION: Finally, 5 novel hit compounds were designed in silico by using a virtual screening approach. The new hits met all the pharmacophore constraints and predicted pIC50 values within the binding ability of HIV-1 RT protein targets.
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Transcriptase Reversa do HIV/antagonistas & inibidores , Relação Quantitativa Estrutura-Atividade , Inibidores da Transcriptase Reversa/química , Algoritmos , Transcriptase Reversa do HIV/química , HIV-1/enzimologia , Modelos Lineares , Modelos MolecularesRESUMO
Novel, cyclic peptidomimetics were synthesized by facile acylation reactions using benzotriazole chemistry. Microbiological testing of the synthesized compounds revealed an exceptionally high activity against Candida albicans with a minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) two orders of magnitude lower than the MIC of the antifungal reference drug amphotericin B. A strikingly high activity was also observed against three Gram-negative bacterial strains (Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Proteus vulgaris), two of which are known human pathogens. Thus the discovered chemotype is a potential polypharmacological agent. The toxicity against mammalian tumor cells was found to be low, as demonstrated in five different human cell lines (HeLa, cervical; PC-3, prostate; MCF-7, breast; HepG2, liver; and HCT-116, colon). The internal consistency of the experimental data was studied using 3D-pharmacophore and 2D-QSAR.
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Antibacterianos/síntese química , Antibacterianos/farmacologia , Antifúngicos/síntese química , Antifúngicos/farmacologia , Candida albicans/efeitos dos fármacos , Bactérias Gram-Negativas/efeitos dos fármacos , Compostos Macrocíclicos/farmacologia , Peptidomiméticos/farmacologia , Antibacterianos/química , Antifúngicos/química , Linhagem Celular Tumoral , Proliferação de Células/efeitos dos fármacos , Relação Dose-Resposta a Droga , Humanos , Compostos Macrocíclicos/síntese química , Compostos Macrocíclicos/química , Testes de Sensibilidade Microbiana , Modelos Moleculares , Estrutura Molecular , Peptidomiméticos/síntese química , Peptidomiméticos/química , Relação Quantitativa Estrutura-AtividadeRESUMO
A statistically significant QSAR model describing the bioactivity of bronchodilatory active 4H-pyrano[3,2-c]pyridine-3-carbonitriles (N = 41, n = 8, R(2) = 0.824, R(2)cv = 0.724, F = 18.749, s(2) = 0.0018) was obtained employing CODESSA-Pro software. The bronchodilatory active 4H-pyrano[3,2-c]pyridine-3-carbonitriles 17-57 were synthesized through a facile approach via reaction of 1-alkyl-4-piperidones 1-4 with ylidenemalononitriles 5-16 in methanol in the presence of sodium. The bronchodilation properties of 17-57 were investigated in vitro using isolated guinea pig tracheal rings pre-contracted with histamine (standard method) and compared with theophylline (standard reference). Most of the compounds synthesized exhibit promising bronchodilation properties especially, compounds 25 and 28.
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Broncodilatadores/síntese química , Broncodilatadores/farmacologia , Piranos/química , Piranos/farmacologia , Piridinas/química , Piridinas/farmacologia , Relação Quantitativa Estrutura-Atividade , Animais , Bioensaio , Broncodilatadores/química , Cobaias , Modelos Lineares , Estrutura Molecular , Piranos/síntese química , Piridinas/síntese química , SoftwareRESUMO
QSAR study describes the anti-neoplastic spiro-alkaloids with relevant molecular descriptors using CODESSA III software. The dispiro[3H-indole-3,2'-pyrrolidine-3',3"-piperidines] 24-48 were synthesized via [3 + 2]-cycloaddition reaction of azomethine ylides, (generated in situ via decarboxylative condensation of isatins 21-23 with sarcosine) and 3E,5E-1-alkyl-3,5-bis(arylmethylidene)-4-piperidones 10-20. Some of the synthesized analogues exhibited promising antitumor properties against HELA (cervical), HEPG2 (liver), T-47D, MCF7 (breast), and HCT116 (colon) human tumor cell lines, demonstrating activity close to or even better than the standard Doxorubicin, based on in vitro Sulfo-Rhodamine-B bio-assay.
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Alcaloides/farmacologia , Antineoplásicos/farmacologia , Relação Quantitativa Estrutura-Atividade , Compostos de Espiro/farmacologia , Alcaloides/química , Antineoplásicos/síntese química , Antineoplásicos/química , Linhagem Celular Tumoral , Proliferação de Células/efeitos dos fármacos , Relação Dose-Resposta a Droga , Ensaios de Seleção de Medicamentos Antitumorais , Humanos , Modelos Moleculares , Estrutura Molecular , Software , Compostos de Espiro/químicaRESUMO
A diverse training set composed of 76 in-house synthesized and 61 collected from the literature was subjected to molecular field topology analysis. This resulted in a high-quality quantitative structure-activity relationships model (R² = 0.932, Q² = 0.809) which was used for the topological functional core identification and prediction of vasodilatory activity of 19 novel pyridinecarbonitriles, which turned out to be active in experimental bioassay.