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In this work, we investigate the conformational properties of unguisin A, a natural macrocyclic heptapeptide that incorporates a γ-aminobutyric acid (Gaba), and four of its difluorinated stereoisomers at the Gaba residue. According to nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments, their secondary structure depends dramatically on the stereochemistry of the fluorinated carbon atoms. However, many molecular details of the structure and flexibility of these systems remain unknown, so that a rationale of the conformational changes induced by the fluorine atoms in the macrocycle is still missing. DX600 mouse To fill this gap, we apply enhanced molecular dynamics (MD) techniques to explore the peptide conformational space in dimethyl sulfoxide solution followed by 4-8 μs of conventional MD simulations that provide extensive equilibrium sampling. The simulations, which compare reasonably well with the NMR-based observations, show that the secondary structure of the macrocycle is altered substantially upon fluorination, except for the (S,S) diastereomer. It also turns out that the conformations of the fluorinated peptides are visited during the enhanced MD simulation of natural unguisin A, suggesting thus that conformations accessible to the unsubstituted macrocyclic peptide may be selected by fluorination. Therefore, computational characterization of the macrocyclic peptides could be helpful in the rational design of stereoselective fluorinated peptides with fine-tuned conformation and activity.Conjugation of pleuromutilin is an attractive strategy for the development of novel antibiotics and the fight against multiresistant bacteria as the class is associated with low rates of resistance and cross-resistance development. Herein, the preparation of 35 novel (+)-pleuromutilin conjugates is reported. Their design was based on a synthetically more efficient benzyl adaption of a potent lead but still relied on the Cu(I)-catalyzed alkyne-azide [3 + 2] cycloaddition for conjugation onto pleuromutilin. Their antibacterial activity was evaluated against the multiresistant Staphylococcus aureus strain USA300 for which they displayed moderate to excellent activity. Compound 35, bearing a para-benzyladenine substituent, proved particularly potent against USA300 and additional strains of MRSA and displayed as importantly no cytotoxicity in four mammalian cell lines. Structure-activity relationship analysis revealed that the purine 6-amino is essential for high potency, likely because of strong hydrogen bonding with the RNA backbone of C2469, as suggested by a molecular model based on the MM-GBSA approach.Cancer stem cells (CSCs), a subpopulation of cancer cells endowed with self-renewal, tumorigenicity, pluripotency, chemoresistance, differentiation, invasive ability, and plasticity, reside in specialized tumor niches and are responsible for tumor maintenance, metastasis, therapy resistance, and tumor relapse. The new-age "hierarchical or CSC" model of tumor heterogeneity is based on the concept of eradicating CSCs to prevent tumor relapse and therapy resistance. Small-molecular entities and biologics acting on various stemness signaling pathways, surface markers, efflux transporters, or components of complex tumor microenvironment are under intense investigation as potential anti-CSC agents. In addition, smart nanotherapeutic tools have proved their utility in achieving CSC targeting. Several CSC inhibitors in clinical development have shown promise, either as mono- or combination therapy, in refractory and difficult-to-treat cancers. Clinical investigations with CSC marker follow-up as a measure of clinical efficacy are needed to turn the "hype" into the "hope" these new-age oncology therapeutics have to offer.The maximum common substructure (MCS) problem is an important, well-studied problem in cheminformatics. It is applied in several application scenarios like molecule superimposition and scaffold detection or as a similarity measure in virtual screening and clustering. In many cases, the connected MCS is preferred since it is faster to calculate and a highly fragmented MCS is not very meaningful from a chemical point of view. Nevertheless, a disconnected MCS (dMCS) can be very instructive if it consists of reasonably sized molecular parts connected by variable groups. We present a new algorithm named RIMACS, which is able to calculate the dMCS under constraints. We can control the maximum number of connected components and their minimal size using a modified local substructure mapping approach. A formal proof of correctness is provided as well as extended runtime evaluations on chemical data. The evaluation of RIMACS shows that a small number of connected components helps us to improve MCS similarity in a meaningful way while keeping the runtime requirements in a reasonable range.A novel method has been developed to synthesize a unique class of highly functionalized isochromeno[4,3-c]pyridazines. This reaction features an intermolecular functionalization of terminal nitrogen atom of diazo group of 4-diazoisochoman-3-imine with two dimethylsulfonium ylide components, followed by a base promoted 6-exo-trig cyclization step. Readily available starting materials, a broad substrate scope, and operationally simple, mild, and catalyst-free reaction conditions are the prominent features of this method.A series of diastereomeric 2-(2-pyrrolidinyl)-1,4-benzodioxanes bearing a small, hydrogen-bonding substituent at the 7-, 6-, or 5-position of benzodioxane have been studied for α4β2 and α3β4 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor affinity and activity. Analogous to C(5)H replacement with N and to a much greater extent than decoration at C(7), substitution at benzodioxane C(5) confers very high α4β2/α3β4 selectivity to the α4β2 partial agonism. Docking into the two receptor structures recently determined by cryo-electron microscopy and site-directed mutagenesis at the minus β2 side converge in indicating that the limited accommodation capacity of the β2 pocket, compared to that of the β4 pocket, makes substitution at C(5) rather than at more projecting C(7) position determinant for this pursued subtype selectivity.
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