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Lansoprazole is an antituberculous prodrug targeting cytochrome bc1

Stewart Cole, Claudia Sala, Florence Pojer, Andrej Benjak, Anthony Vocat, Philippe Busso, Jan Lars Rybniker

Better antibiotics capable of killing multi-drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis are urgently needed. Despite extensive drug discovery efforts, only a few promising candidates are on the horizon and alternative screening protocols are required. Here, ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

The FDA-approved natural product dihydroergocristine reduces the production of the Alzheimer's disease amyloid-beta peptides

Patrick Fraering

Known gamma-secretase inhibitors or modulators display an undesirable pharmacokinetic profile and toxicity and have therefore not been successful in clinical trials for Alzheimer's disease (AD). So far, no compounds from natural products have been identifi ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

Preclinical combination therapy of the investigational drug NAMI-A(+) with doxorubicin for mammary cancer

Paul Joseph Dyson, Tina Riedel

Aim of the study The tumor metastases targeting ruthenium complex NAMI-A synergistically improves the activity of gemcitabine in combination therapies. High-throughput screening was used to identify other potential drug combinations from a library of FDA a ...

Springer2015

Developing the Biomolecular Screening Facility at the EPFL into the Chemical Biology Screening Platform for Switzerland

Gerardo Turcatti

The Biomolecular Screening Facility (BSF) is a multidisciplinary laboratory created in 2006 at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) to perform medium and high throughput screening in life sciences-related projects. The BSF was conceived and ...

Bentham Science Publishers2014

Drug development: longer-lived proteins

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell

Protein therapeutics represent a powerful class of clinically approved drugs for the prevention and treatment of various diseases. Once administered, the biological fate of protein therapeutics is governed by the body's various complex biochemical and biop ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2012

Next-Generation Anticancer Metallodrugs

Angela Casini

More than 99% of currently approved clinical drugs are organic compounds. In contrast, the percentage of metal-containing drugs (metallodrugs) is very low. In cancer chemotherapy, however, platinum coordination compounds represented by cisplatin and deriva ...

2010