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Conventional biomaterial is frequently used in the biomedical sector for various therapies, imaging, treatment, and theranostic functions. However, their properties are fixed to meet certain applications. Smart materials respond in a controllable and reversible way, modifying some of their properties because of external stimuli. However, protein-based smart materials allow modular protein domains with different functionalities and responsive behaviours to be easily combined. Wherein, these "smart" behaviours can be tuned by amino acid identity and sequence. This review aims to give an insight into the design of smart materials, mainly protein-based piezoelectric materials, shape-memory materials, and hydrogels, as well as highlight the current progress and challenges of protein-based smart materials in tissue engineering. These materials have demonstrated outstanding regeneration of neural, skin, cartilage, bone, and cardiac tissues with great stimuli-responsive properties, biocompatibility, biodegradability, and biofunctionality.
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KRASG12C has emerged as a promising target in the treatment of solid tumors. Covalent inhibitors targeting the mutant cysteine-12 residue have been shown to disrupt signaling by this long-"undruggable" target; however clinically viable inhibitors have yet to be identified. Here, we report efforts to exploit a cryptic pocket (H95/Y96/Q99) we identified in KRASG12C to identify inhibitors suitable for clinical development. Structure-based design efforts leading to the identification of a novel quinazolinone scaffold are described, along with optimization efforts that overcame a configurational stability issue arising from restricted rotation about an axially chiral biaryl bond. Biopharmaceutical optimization of the resulting leads culminated in the identification of AMG 510, a highly potent, selective, and well-tolerated KRASG12C inhibitor currently in phase I clinical trials (NCT03600883).
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Antineoplásicos/uso terapêutico , Neoplasias/tratamento farmacológico , Piperazinas/uso terapêutico , Proteínas Proto-Oncogênicas p21(ras)/antagonistas & inibidores , Piridinas/uso terapêutico , Pirimidinas/uso terapêutico , Pirimidinonas/uso terapêutico , Animais , Antineoplásicos/química , Antineoplásicos/farmacocinética , Ensaios Clínicos como Assunto , Cães , Descoberta de Drogas , Humanos , Isomerismo , Células Madin Darby de Rim Canino , Camundongos Endogâmicos BALB C , Camundongos Nus , Mutação , Piperazinas/química , Piperazinas/farmacologia , Proteínas Proto-Oncogênicas p21(ras)/genética , Piridinas/química , Piridinas/farmacocinética , Piridinas/farmacologia , Pirimidinas/química , Pirimidinas/farmacologia , Pirimidinonas/química , Pirimidinonas/farmacocinética , Ratos , Relação Estrutura-AtividadeRESUMO
The ß-site amyloid precursor protein (APP) cleaving enzyme 1 (BACE1) is one of the most hotly pursued targets for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. We used a structure- and property-based drug design approach to identify 2-aminooxazoline 3-azaxanthenes as potent BACE1 inhibitors which significantly reduced CSF and brain Aß levels in a rat pharmacodynamic model. Compared to the initial lead 2, compound 28 exhibited reduced potential for QTc prolongation in a non-human primate cardiovascular safety model.
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Secretases da Proteína Precursora do Amiloide/antagonistas & inibidores , Ácido Aspártico Endopeptidases/antagonistas & inibidores , Inibidores de Proteases/química , Inibidores de Proteases/farmacologia , Xantenos/química , Xantenos/farmacologia , Doença de Alzheimer/tratamento farmacológico , Animais , Linhagem Celular , Células HEK293 , Humanos , Inibidores de Proteases/síntese química , Ratos , Xantenos/síntese químicaRESUMO
ß-Secretase inhibitors are potentially disease-modifying treatments for Alzheimer's disease. Previous efforts in our laboratory have resulted in hydroxyethylamine-derived inhibitors such as 1 with low nanomolar potency against ß-site amyloid precursor protein cleaving enzyme (BACE). When dosed intravenously, compound 1 was also shown to significantly reduce Aß40 levels in plasma, brain, and cerebral spinal fluid. Herein, we report further optimizations that led to the discovery of inhibitor 16 as a novel, potent, and orally efficacious BACE inhibitor.
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The evolution of 2, a C-4-methylcarbonate analogue of paclitaxel with minimal oral bioavailability and oral efficacy, into its C-3'-t-butyl-3'-N-t-butyloxycarbonyl analogue (15i), a novel taxane with oral efficacy in preclinical models that is comparable to iv administered paclitaxel, is described.