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Synthesis and antiproliferative activity of 2-chlorophenyl carboxamide thienopyridines (2016)
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van Rensburg, M., Leung, E., Haverkate, N. A., Eurtivong, C., Pilkington, L. I., Reynisson, J., & Barker, D. (2017). Synthesis and antiproliferative activity of 2-chlorophenyl carboxamide thienopyridines. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 27(2), 135-138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bmcl.2016.12.009

3-Amino-2-arylcarboxamide-thieno[2,3-b]pyridines are a known class of antiproliferative compounds with activity against the phospholipase C enzyme. To further investigate the structure activity relationships of these derivatives a series of analogues... Read More about Synthesis and antiproliferative activity of 2-chlorophenyl carboxamide thienopyridines.

3-Amino-thieno[2,3-b]pyridines as microtubule-destabilising agents: Molecular modelling and biological evaluation in the sea urchin embryo and human cancer cells (2016)
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Eurtivong, C., Semenov, V., Semenova, M., Konyushkin, L., Atamanenko, O., Reynisson, J., & Kiselyov, A. (2017). 3-Amino-thieno[2,3-b]pyridines as microtubule-destabilising agents: Molecular modelling and biological evaluation in the sea urchin embryo and human cancer cells. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, 25(2), 658-664. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bmc.2016.11.041

A series of 3-amino-thieno[2,3-b]pyridines was prepared and tested in a phenotypic sea urchin embryo assay to identify potent and specific molecules that affect tubulin dynamics. The most active compounds featured a tricyclic core ring system with a... Read More about 3-Amino-thieno[2,3-b]pyridines as microtubule-destabilising agents: Molecular modelling and biological evaluation in the sea urchin embryo and human cancer cells.

Coumarin Antifungal Lead Compounds from Millettia thonningii and Their Predicted Mechanism of Action (2016)
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Reynisson. (2016). Coumarin Antifungal Lead Compounds from Millettia thonningii and Their Predicted Mechanism of Action. Molecules, https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules21101369

Fungal pathogens continue to pose challenges to humans and plants despite efforts to control them. Two coumarins, robustic acid and thonningine-C isolated from Millettia thonningii, show promising activity against the fungus Candida albicans with min... Read More about Coumarin Antifungal Lead Compounds from Millettia thonningii and Their Predicted Mechanism of Action.

Synthesis of 3-Amino-2-carboxamide Tetrahydropyrrolo[2,3-b]quinolines (2016)
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Barker, D., Pilkington, L., Haverkate, N., van Rensburg, M., Reynisson, J., & Leung, E. (in press). Synthesis of 3-Amino-2-carboxamide Tetrahydropyrrolo[2,3-b]quinolines. SYNLETT, 27(20), 2811-2814. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0036-1588619

This article communicates the first synthesis of 3-amino-2-carboxamide pyrrolo[2,3-b]quinolines and fused-ring pyrrolopyridines in an efficient synthesis via a Thorpe–Ziegler transformation. The reported synthetic route allows for a wide range of nit... Read More about Synthesis of 3-Amino-2-carboxamide Tetrahydropyrrolo[2,3-b]quinolines.

New inhibitors of tyrosyl-DNA phosphodiesterase I (Tdp 1) combining 7-hydroxycoumarin and monoterpenoid moieties (2016)
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Khomenko, T., Zakharenko, A., Odarchenko, T., Arabshahi, H. J., Sannikova, V., Zakharova, O., …Lavrik, O. (2016). New inhibitors of tyrosyl-DNA phosphodiesterase I (Tdp 1) combining 7-hydroxycoumarin and monoterpenoid moieties. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, 24(21), 5573-5581. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bmc.2016.09.016

A number of derivatives of 7-hydroxycoumarins containing aromatic or monoterpene substituents at hydroxy-group were synthesized based on a hit compound from a virtual screen. The ability of these compounds to inhibit tyrosyl-DNA phosphodiesterase I (... Read More about New inhibitors of tyrosyl-DNA phosphodiesterase I (Tdp 1) combining 7-hydroxycoumarin and monoterpenoid moieties.

Radical Chemistry and Cytotoxicity of Bioreductive 3-Substituted Quinoxaline Di-N-Oxides (2016)
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Anderson, R. F., Yadav, P., Shinde, S. S., Hong, C. R., Pullen, S. M., Reynisson, J., …Hay, M. P. (2016). Radical Chemistry and Cytotoxicity of Bioreductive 3-Substituted Quinoxaline Di-N-Oxides. Chemical Research in Toxicology, 29(8), 1310-1324. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrestox.6b00133

The radical chemistry and cytotoxicity of a series of quinoxaline di-N-oxide (QDO) compounds has been investigated to explore the mechanism of action of this class of bioreductive drugs. A series of water-soluble 3-trifluoromethyl (4–10), 3-phenyl (1... Read More about Radical Chemistry and Cytotoxicity of Bioreductive 3-Substituted Quinoxaline Di-N-Oxides.

Ferrocenyl Paclitaxel and Docetaxel Derivatives: Impact of an Organometallic Moiety on the Mode of Action of Taxanes (2016)
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Wieczorek, A., Błauż, A., Żal, A., Arabshahi, H. J., Reynisson, J., Hartinger, C. G., …Plażuk, D. (2016). Ferrocenyl Paclitaxel and Docetaxel Derivatives: Impact of an Organometallic Moiety on the Mode of Action of Taxanes. Chemistry - A European Journal, 22(32), 11413-11421. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201601809

A series of ferrocenyl analogues and derivatives of paclitaxel and docetaxel were synthesised and assayed for their antiproliferative/cytotoxic effects, impact on the cell cycle distribution and ability to induce tubulin polymerisation. The replaceme... Read More about Ferrocenyl Paclitaxel and Docetaxel Derivatives: Impact of an Organometallic Moiety on the Mode of Action of Taxanes.

Identification of anticancer agents based on the thieno[2,3-b]pyridine and 1H-pyrazole molecular scaffolds (2016)
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Eurtivong, C., Reynisdóttir, I., Kuczma, S., Furkert, D. P., Brimble, M. A., & Reynisson, J. (2016). Identification of anticancer agents based on the thieno[2,3-b]pyridine and 1H-pyrazole molecular scaffolds. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, 24(16), 3521-3526. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bmc.2016.05.061

Structural similarity search of commercially available analogues of thieno[2,3-b]pyridine and 1H-pyrazole derivatives, known anticancer agents, resulted in 717 hits. These were docked into the phosphoinositide specific-phospholipase C (PLC) binding p... Read More about Identification of anticancer agents based on the thieno[2,3-b]pyridine and 1H-pyrazole molecular scaffolds.

Hydration Free Energy as a Molecular Descriptor in Drug Design: A Feasibility Study (2016)
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Zafar, A., & Reynisson, J. (2016). Hydration Free Energy as a Molecular Descriptor in Drug Design: A Feasibility Study. Molecular Informatics, 35(5), 207-214. https://doi.org/10.1002/minf.201501035

In this work the idea was investigated whether calculated hydration energy (ΔGhyd) can be used as a molecular descriptor in defining promising regions of chemical space for drug design. Calculating ΔGhyd using the Density Solvation Model (SMD) in con... Read More about Hydration Free Energy as a Molecular Descriptor in Drug Design: A Feasibility Study.