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Structure-based design of inhibitors specific for bacterial thymidylate synthase.
Thymidylate synthase is an attractive target for antiproliferative drug design because of its key role in the synthesis of DNA. As such, the enzyme has been widely targeted for anticancer… Expand
Protein–protein interface-binding peptides inhibit the cancer therapy target human thymidylate synthase
- D. Cardinale, G. Guaitoli, +15 authors Maria Paola Costi
- Biology, Medicine
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 27 July 2011
Human thymidylate synthase is a homodimeric enzyme that plays a key role in DNA synthesis and is a target for several clinically important anticancer drugs that bind to its active site. We have… Expand
Structure-Based Virtual Screening for the Discovery of Novel Inhibitors of New Delhi Metallo-β-lactamase-1.
- F. Spyrakis, G. Celenza, +6 authors D. Tondi
- Biology, Medicine
- ACS medicinal chemistry letters
- 11 January 2018
Bacterial resistance has become a worldwide concern after the emergence of metallo-β-lactamases (MBLs). They represent one of the major mechanisms of bacterial resistance against beta-lactam… Expand
Structure-based discovery and in-parallel optimization of novel competitive inhibitors of thymidylate synthase.
- D. Tondi, U. Slomczynska, M. Costi, D. M. Watterson, S. Ghelli, B. Shoichet
- Medicine, Biology
- Chemistry & biology
- 1 May 1999
BACKGROUND
The substrate sites of enzymes are attractive targets for structure-based inhibitor design. Two difficulties hinder efforts to discover and elaborate new (nonsubstrate-like) inhibitors for… Expand
Thymidylate synthase structure, function and implication in drug discovery.
- Maria Paola Costi, S. Ferrari, A. Venturelli, S. Calò, D. Tondi, D. Barlocco
- Medicine, Biology
- Current medicinal chemistry
- 31 August 2005
Recent methodologies applied to the drug discovery process, such as genomics and proteomics, have greatly implemented our basic understanding of drug action and are giving more input to medicinal… Expand
Ten Years with New Delhi Metallo-β-lactamase-1 (NDM-1): From Structural Insights to Inhibitor Design.
- P. Linciano, L. Cendron, E. Gianquinto, F. Spyrakis, D. Tondi
- Chemistry, Medicine
- ACS infectious diseases
- 11 January 2019
The worldwide emergence of New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-1 (NDM-1) as a carbapenemase able to hydrolyze nearly all available β-lactam antibiotics has characterized the past decade, endangering… Expand
The inhibition of extended spectrum β-lactamases: hits and leads.
- D. Fariña, F. Spyrakis, A. Venturelli, S. Cross, D. Tondi, Maria Paola Costi
- Biology, Medicine
- Current medicinal chemistry
- 31 March 2014
The ongoing emergence of bacterial strains resistant to even third- and fourth-generation β-lactam antibiotics is one of the most pressing and challenging issues in clinical therapy. Furthermore,… Expand
Computational and biological profile of boronic acids for the detection of bacterial serine- and metallo-β-lactamases
- M. Santucci, F. Spyrakis, +11 authors M. Costi
- Chemistry, Medicine
- Scientific Reports
- 18 December 2017
Abstractβ-Lactamases (BLs) able to hydrolyze β-lactam antibiotics and more importantly the last resort carbapenems, represent a major mechanism of resistance in Gram-negative bacteria showing… Expand
In silico identification and experimental validation of hits active against KPC-2 β-lactamase
- Raphael Klein, P. Linciano, +6 authors D. Tondi
- Chemistry, Medicine
- PloS one
- 29 November 2018
Bacterial resistance has become a worldwide concern, particularly after the emergence of resistant strains overproducing carbapenemases. Among these, the KPC-2 carbapenemase represents a significant… Expand
Mono- and disubstituted-3,8-diazabicyclo[3.2.1]octane derivatives as analgesics structurally related to epibatidine: synthesis, activity, and modeling.
- D. Barlocco, G. Cignarella, +9 authors L. Toma
- Chemistry, Medicine
- Journal of medicinal chemistry
- 26 February 1998
A series of 3,8-diazabicyclo[3.2.1]octanes substituted either at the 3 position (compounds 1) or at the 8 position (compounds 2) by a chlorinated heteroaryl ring were synthesized, as potential… Expand
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