Publications related to Druglikeness

Gas-phase structures reflect the pain-relief potency of enkephalin peptides

Oleg Boyarkine, Vladimir Kopysov, Aleksandr Pereverzev

We use cold ion spectroscopy and quantum-chemical computations to solve the structures of opioid peptides enkephalins in the gas phase. The derived structural parameters clearly correlate with the known pharmacological efficiency of the studied drugs, sugg ...

2019

Polar Hinges as Functionalized Conformational Constraints in (Bi) cyclic Peptides

Christian Heinis, Sangram Shivdas Kale

Two polar hinges for cyclization of peptides have been developed, leading to bicyclic peptides and cyclized peptides with improved solubility and biological activity. Increasingly, we note that a good aqueous solubility of peptides is an absolute prerequis ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

Prediction of logP for Pt(II) and Pt(IV) complexes: Comparison of statistical and quantum-chemistry based approaches

Hristo Plamenov Varbanov

The octanol/water partition coefficient, logP, is one of the most important physico-chemical parameters for the development of new metal-based anticancer drugs with improved pharmacokinetic properties. This study addresses an issue with the absence of publ ...

Elsevier Science Inc2016

Resonance Energy Transfer Relates the Gas-Phase Structure and Pharmacological Activity of Opioid Peptides

Oleg Boyarkine, Vladimir Kopysov

Enkephalins are efficient pain-relief drugs that bind to transmembrane opioid receptors. One key structural param- eter that governs the pharmacological activity of these opioid peptides and is typically determined from condensed-phase structures is the di ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

Nitroarenes as Antitubercular Agents: Stereoelectronic Modulation to Mitigate Mutagenicity

Joao Pedro De Almeida Neres

Nitroarenes are less preferred in drug discovery due to their potential to be mutagenic. However, several nitroarenes were shown to be promising antitubercular agents with specific modes of action, namely, nitroimidazoles and benzothiazinones. The nitro gr ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2016

Abcb4 acts as multixenobiotic transporter and active barrier against chemical uptake in zebrafish (Danio rerio) embryos

Kristin Schirmer

Background: In mammals, ABCB1 constitutes a cellular "first line of defense" against a wide array of chemicals and drugs conferring cellular multidrug or multixenobiotic resistance (MDR/MXR). We tested the hypothesis that an ABCB1 ortholog serves as protec ...

Biomed Central Ltd2013

NMR diffusion and relaxation studies of the encapsulation of fragrances by amphiphilic multiarm star block copolymers

Jan-Anders Edvin Maansson, Harm-Anton Klok, John Christopher Plummer, Céline Ternat

Self-diffusion NMR spectroscopy and relaxometry have been employed to study fragrance encapsulation in water-soluble, amphiphilic star block copolymers. Diffusion coefficients of four different fragrance molecules in the free form and in the presence of th ...

American Chemical Society2007