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An overview of recent advances in duplex DNA recognition by small molecules

  • Sayantan Bhaduri,
  • Nihar Ranjan and
  • Dev P. Arya

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1051–1086, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.93

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  • -rich sequences [41][42]. However, clinical development of TAM was discontinued due to severe myelotoxicity. With distamycin, netropsin and TAM as the lead compounds for novel anticancer drugs, a plethora of oligopyrrole derivatives were reported with the aim of increasing stability, greater DNA binding
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Published 16 May 2018

On the design principles of peptide–drug conjugates for targeted drug delivery to the malignant tumor site

  • Eirinaios I. Vrettos,
  • Gábor Mező and
  • Andreas G. Tzakos

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 930–954, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.80

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  • intervention, radiation and chemotherapy. Drugs used for this purpose are inevitably cytotoxic in order to eliminate cancer cells, but they lack selectivity that could be developed through targeting malignant cells (Figure 1). Due to the uncontrolled peripheral toxicity, anticancer drugs usually kill healthy
  • anticancer drugs utilized to treat malignancies at the moment. Among this large pool of cytotoxic drugs, an array of them has been utilized as toxic warheads in PDCs and five representative examples are gemcitabine, doxorubicin, daunorubicin, paclitaxel and camptothecin (Figure 4). The main drawback of these
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Published 26 Apr 2018

Development of novel cyclic NGR peptide–daunomycin conjugates with dual targeting property

  • Andrea Angelo Pierluigi Tripodi,
  • Szilárd Tóth,
  • Kata Nóra Enyedi,
  • Gitta Schlosser,
  • Gergely Szakács and
  • Gábor Mező

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 911–918, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.78

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  • release; NGR peptides; oxime-linkage; targeted drug delivery; Introduction Targeted chemotherapy is one of the most promising approaches for selective cancer treatment that may decrease the toxic side effects of anticancer drugs. This therapeutic approach is based on the fact that tumor specific
  • homing devices may provide dual targeted delivery of anticancer drugs. According to literature data, one of the most stable and tumor-selective cyclic NGR-peptides is c[KNGRE]-NH2, in which the α-amino group of the N-terminal Lys is coupled to the γ-carboxyl group of the glutamic acid residue (head-to
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Published 25 Apr 2018

Synthesis and in vitro biochemical evaluation of oxime bond-linked daunorubicin–GnRH-III conjugates developed for targeted drug delivery

  • Sabine Schuster,
  • Beáta Biri-Kovács,
  • Bálint Szeder,
  • Viktor Farkas,
  • László Buday,
  • Zsuzsanna Szabó,
  • Gábor Halmos and
  • Gábor Mező

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 756–771, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.64

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  • Debrecen, 4032 Debrecen, Hungary 10.3762/bjoc.14.64 Abstract Gonadotropin releasing hormone-III (GnRH-III), a native isoform of the human GnRH isolated from sea lamprey, specifically binds to GnRH receptors on cancer cells enabling its application as targeting moieties for anticancer drugs. Recently, we
  • (Dox), daunorubicin (Dau) or epirubicin are frequently used anticancer drugs. Their mode of action is based on a planar ring system which is important for intercalation into DNA [10]. In this way, anthracyclines can affect a broad range of DNA processes leading to an inhibited synthesis of
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Published 04 Apr 2018

Vinylphosphonium and 2-aminovinylphosphonium salts – preparation and applications in organic synthesis

  • Anna Kuźnik,
  • Roman Mazurkiewicz and
  • Beata Fryczkowska

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2710–2738, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.269

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  • anticancer drugs, antioxidants, or functional probes into the mitochondria [5][6][7][8]. Review 1. Synthesis of vinylphosphonium salts 1.1. Alkylation of phosphines with alkyl halides One of the most common methods for the preparation of vinylphosphonium salts 1 is the quaternization of vinylphosphines with
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Published 15 Dec 2017

Exploring mechanochemistry to turn organic bio-relevant molecules into metal-organic frameworks: a short review

  • Vânia André,
  • Sílvia Quaresma,
  • João Luís Ferreira da Silva and
  • M. Teresa Duarte

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2416–2427, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.239

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  • enhancement of MOF structural and stability properties [90][91]. Bioactive molecules like caffeine [92][93] and anticancer drugs [94][95][96][97][98] were incorporated in ZIF-8 and tests proved that these systems allowed for a controlled drug release. Further studies involving ZIF-8 with encapsulated
  • anticancer drugs have also shown that these have potential to be used in fluorescence imaging. The number of reports on MOFs synthesized by mechanochemistry [8][28][50][99][100][101] has been increasing and some in situ studies on the mechanosynthesis of MOFs and coordination polymers are already being
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Published 14 Nov 2017

Total syntheses of the archazolids: an emerging class of novel anticancer drugs

  • Stephan Scheeff and
  • Dirk Menche

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1085–1098, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.108

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Published 07 Jun 2017

Glyco-gold nanoparticles: synthesis and applications

  • Federica Compostella,
  • Olimpia Pitirollo,
  • Alessandro Silvestri and
  • Laura Polito

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1008–1021, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.100

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  • metal-based anticancer drugs need to be developed. Recently, it has been reported the interesting synthesis of AuNPs coated with glyco-polymers and functionalized with gold(I) triphenylphosphine (Figure 7) [88]. This work showed the potentiality of these structures as novel cancer therapeutic drugs. The
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Published 24 May 2017

Synthesis of 1-indanones with a broad range of biological activity

  • Marika Turek,
  • Dorota Szczęsna,
  • Marek Koprowski and
  • Piotr Bałczewski

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 451–494, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.48

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  • as antiviral and antibacterial agents [5] (I and II), anticancer drugs [6] (VI), pharmaceuticals used in the Alzheimer’s disease treatment [7] (III), cardiovascular drugs [7] (IV), insecticides, fungicides, herbicides [8] (V) and non-nucleoside, low molecular drugs for the hepatitis C treatment
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Published 09 Mar 2017

Rearrangements of organic peroxides and related processes

  • Ivan A. Yaremenko,
  • Vera A. Vil’,
  • Dmitry V. Demchuk and
  • Alexander O. Terent’ev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1647–1748, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.162

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  • agents and initiators for free-radical reactions both in industry and in laboratory. These compounds are produced and involved in various natural and biological processes and were explored extensively as antimalarial agents, anthelmintics, and anticancer drugs. Organic peroxides, such as alkyl
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Published 03 Aug 2016

Synthesis and in vitro cytotoxicity of acetylated 3-fluoro, 4-fluoro and 3,4-difluoro analogs of D-glucosamine and D-galactosamine

  • Štěpán Horník,
  • Lucie Červenková Šťastná,
  • Petra Cuřínová,
  • Jan Sýkora,
  • Kateřina Káňová,
  • Roman Hrstka,
  • Ivana Císařová,
  • Martin Dračínský and
  • Jindřich Karban

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 750–759, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.75

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  • cell growth creates an avenue for their use in the development of anticancer drugs, it also limits their utility as agents to modify the cellular glycome [62]. The cytotoxic activity of peracetylated monofluoro analogs 1, and 4–6, their 1-O-deacetylated derivatives 2, and 49–51, difluoro analogs 7 and
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Published 20 Apr 2016

Three new trixane glycosides obtained from the leaves of Jungia sellowii Less. using centrifugal partition chromatography

  • Luíse Azevedo,
  • Larissa Faqueti,
  • Marina Kritsanida,
  • Antonia Efstathiou,
  • Despina Smirlis,
  • Gilberto C. Franchi Jr,
  • Grégory Genta-Jouve,
  • Sylvie Michel,
  • Louis P. Sandjo,
  • Raphaël Grougnet and
  • Maique W. Biavatti

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 674–683, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.68

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  • treatment. Plants also have an important role as a source of antitumoral agents, and several anticancer drugs currently in use are derived from natural sources. Natural products often have selective biological actions due to binding affinities for specific proteins, and have superior chemical diversity and
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Published 12 Apr 2016

Versatile synthesis and biological evaluation of novel 3’-fluorinated purine nucleosides

  • Hang Ren,
  • Haoyun An,
  • Paul J. Hatala,
  • William C. Stevens Jr,
  • Jingchao Tao and
  • Baicheng He

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 2509–2520, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.272

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  • reactions on the 6-chloropurine nucleosides. Intermediate compounds 31–40 were deprotected with a saturated solution of ammonia in methanol to furnish the desired products 6–15 in 70–92% yields (Table 1). 3’-Fluoro-2-chloropurine nucleosides – cladribine and clofarabine mimics Anticancer drugs cladribine
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Published 09 Dec 2015

Synthesis, antimicrobial and cytotoxicity evaluation of new cholesterol congeners

  • Mohamed Ramadan El Sayed Aly,
  • Hosam Ali Saad and
  • Shams Hashim Abdel-Hafez

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1922–1932, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.208

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  • bioavailability of anticancer drugs. Thus, SuberAniloHydroxamic acid–cholesterol conjugates (SAHA–cholesterol) [11], cholesterol-based charged liposomes encaging doxorubicin [12] or curcumin [13] showed higher activity compared with the native drugs. Synthetic coumarin-caged cholesterol derivatives, for instance
  • and death. This explains why it is down-regulated during carcinogenesis and opens the door for nucleophilic addition of amines to 5,6α-EC as a new lead for developing potential anticancer drugs [15]. Apart from antimicrobial and antiproliferative activities of cholesterol derivatives, other
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Published 16 Oct 2015

Pyridinoacridine alkaloids of marine origin: NMR and MS spectral data, synthesis, biosynthesis and biological activity

  • Louis P. Sandjo,
  • Victor Kuete and
  • Maique W. Biavatti

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1667–1699, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.183

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  • selectivity according to the reported IC50 data. A linear or angular arrangement, as found in ascididemin and neoamphimedine structures, respectively, are two interesting backbones that could be used as starting points in the search for new anticancer drugs. Pyridoacridones containing fused rings with 1,4
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Published 18 Sep 2015

Deproto-metallation of N-arylated pyrroles and indoles using a mixed lithium–zinc base and regioselectivity-computed CH acidity relationship

  • Mohamed Yacine Ameur Messaoud,
  • Ghenia Bentabed-Ababsa,
  • Madani Hedidi,
  • Aïcha Derdour,
  • Floris Chevallier,
  • Yury S. Halauko,
  • Oleg A. Ivashkevich,
  • Vadim E. Matulis,
  • Laurent Picot,
  • Valérie Thiéry,
  • Thierry Roisnel,
  • Vincent Dorcet and
  • Florence Mongin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1475–1485, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.160

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  • previously [60]. A2058 cells are highly invasive human epithelial adherent melanoma cells, derived from lymph nodes metastatic cells obtained from a 43 year old male patient. They are tumorigenic at 100% frequency in nude mice, and considered as very resistant to anticancer drugs. All cell culture
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Published 24 Aug 2015

Gold-catalyzed formation of pyrrolo- and indolo-oxazin-1-one derivatives: The key structure of some marine natural products

  • Sultan Taskaya,
  • Nurettin Menges and
  • Metin Balci

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 897–905, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.101

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  • and multidrug resistance reversal activity [12][13][14]. Lamellarins 4 with a pyrrolo-oxazinone substructure are also marine natural products and they inhibit the proliferation of cancer cells and therefore are promising candidates for anticancer drugs [15][16][17][18][19][20]. The design and
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Published 28 May 2015

Formulation development, stability and anticancer efficacy of core-shell cyclodextrin nanocapsules for oral chemotherapy with camptothecin

  • Hale Ünal,
  • Naile Öztürk and
  • Erem Bilensoy

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 204–212, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.22

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  • higher when incorporated in hybrid CD nanocapsules compared with a DMSO solution. Conclusion: Oral CD nanocapsules indicating increased oral bioavailability might be a promising strategy to maintain the physiological stability and to improve the oral bioavailability of problematic anticancer drugs such
  • is the poor aqueous solubility due to the hydrophobicity of most anticancer drugs [3]. Most of the anticancer drugs are formulated with co-solubilizers via intravenous administration; however these co-solubilizers lead to severe side effects restricting both the patient’s quality of life and efficacy
  • of the therapy. Another major factor is that anticancer drugs have a wide distribution capacity in the body and owing to non-selective cytotoxicity of these drugs not only the cancer cells but also healthy cells are killed. Due to low therapeutic indices of anticancer drugs, a rapid increase and
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Published 04 Feb 2015

Preparation and evaluation of cyclodextrin polypseudorotaxane with PEGylated liposome as a sustained release drug carrier

  • Kayoko Hayashida,
  • Taishi Higashi,
  • Daichi Kono,
  • Keiichi Motoyama,
  • Koki Wada and
  • Hidetoshi Arima

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2756–2764, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.292

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  • delivery of anticancer drugs [28]. PEG-LP encapsulating DOX is commercially available as DOXIL/CAELYX® [28]. In addition, PEG-LPs are also utilized as long-circulating drug carriers for protein drugs and nucleic acids [37][38]. Thus, PEG-LPs are representative drug carriers and CD PPRXs of PEG-LPs could be
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Published 25 Nov 2014

The regulation and biosynthesis of antimycins

  • Ryan F. Seipke and
  • Matthew I. Hutchings

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 2556–2563, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.290

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  • over-produced in cancer cells that are resistant to apoptosis-inducing chemotherapy agents, so antimycins have great potential as anticancer drugs used in combination with existing chemotherapeutics. Here we review what is known about antimycins, the regulation of the ant gene cluster and the unusual
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Published 19 Nov 2013

Synthesis and characterization of novel bioactive 1,2,4-oxadiazole natural product analogs bearing the N-phenylmaleimide and N-phenylsuccinimide moieties

  • Catalin V. Maftei,
  • Elena Fodor,
  • Peter G. Jones,
  • M. Heiko Franz,
  • Gerhard Kelter,
  • Heiner Fiebig and
  • Ion Neda

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 2202–2215, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.259

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  • . synthesized maleimide derivatives of doxorubicin and camptothecin. After intravenous administration these designed anticancer drugs bind rapidly to circulating albumin [17][18][19]. Endogenous albumin could be seen as a drug carrier, as it accumulates in solid tumors according to the pathophysiology of tumor
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Published 25 Oct 2013

Synthesis of meso-substituted dihydro-1,3-oxazinoporphyrins

  • Satyasheel Sharma and
  • Mahendra Nath

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 496–502, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.53

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  • tissue, and efficiency in generating reactive oxygen species by the absorption of photons in the visible or near IR region make them ideal candidates for developing effective photodynamic agents. These findings have encouraged researchers to design and synthesize potential targeting anticancer drugs
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Thioester derivatives of the natural product psammaplin A as potent histone deacetylase inhibitors

  • Matthias G. J. Baud,
  • Thomas Leiser,
  • Vanessa Petrucci,
  • Mekala Gunaratnam,
  • Stephen Neidle,
  • Franz-Josef Meyer-Almes and
  • Matthew J. Fuchter

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 81–88, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.11

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  • oncogenesis [3][4] and small molecule inhibitors of these pathways have emerged as highly attractive targets for anticancer therapies [5][6]. Inhibitors of epigenetic pathways should not only be useful as anticancer drugs, but also as molecular probes to study the causative relationships between specific
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Published 15 Jan 2013

An easily accessible sulfated saccharide mimetic inhibits in vitro human tumor cell adhesion and angiogenesis of vascular endothelial cells

  • Grazia Marano,
  • Claas Gronewold,
  • Martin Frank,
  • Anette Merling,
  • Christian Kliem,
  • Sandra Sauer,
  • Manfred Wiessler,
  • Eva Frei and
  • Reinhard Schwartz-Albiez

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 787–803, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.89

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  • development not only of new tools for tumor diagnosis and monitoring but also in the design of new anticancer drugs [8]. Attempts have been made to mount an immune response against tumor oligosaccharides by carbohydrate vaccines [9] and also to inhibit adhesive processes, such as the interaction between
  • angiogenesis and is currently under investigation in several clinical trials for the treatment of recurrent malignant glioblastoma [48]. GSF, due to its direct anti-tumor and anti-angiogenic effect, may represent a new class of small-molecule anticancer drugs. Although anti-angiogenic drugs such as the
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Published 29 May 2012

Enantioselective supramolecular devices in the gas phase. Resorcin[4]arene as a model system

  • Caterina Fraschetti,
  • Matthias C. Letzel,
  • Antonello Filippi,
  • Maurizio Speranza and
  • Jochen Mattay

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 539–550, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.62

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  • are the elementary units of the RNA and DNA biomacromolecules, and their physiological importance at many different levels [52][53][54] makes them potential candidates as anticancer drugs. The gas-phase study of the intimate interactions between the resorcin[4]arene V and several pyrimidine
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