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Total Synthesis Of Cytotoxic Mansouramycins From Amino Acids, Beatriz Gamez
Total Synthesis Of Cytotoxic Mansouramycins From Amino Acids, Beatriz Gamez
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Natural products produced by plants, animals, and microorganisms are of significant importance in chemistry for being major sources of molecular scaffolds essential for new drug discovery. Mansouramycins are cytotoxic bioactive compounds containing isoquinoline skeletons with substituents on the quinone and pyridine rings that may be difficult to synthesize. Synthetic processes exist for compounds B and D, however, there exists an absence of simple synthetic approaches to all four alkaloids.
This project aims to provide a general total synthetic pathway to Mansouramycins A—D from amino acids for possible use in cancer treatment via these isoquinolinequinones. Preliminary experimentation suggests there may be …
Chemical Modification And In Silico Validation Of Medicinally Privileged Molecular Scaffolds As Kras And Sars-Cov-2 Protease Inhibitors, Precious M. Okwuchukwu
Chemical Modification And In Silico Validation Of Medicinally Privileged Molecular Scaffolds As Kras And Sars-Cov-2 Protease Inhibitors, Precious M. Okwuchukwu
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Coronavirus disease was declared a global pandemic by WHO in March 2020, cancer is the second leading cause of death by a disease. Several scientists around the world are working relentlessly to discover an effective remedy to eradicate these deadly diseases. A natural polyphenol (magnolol) has been isolated from a tree Magnolia grandiflora (family Magnoliaceae) found on UTRGV campuses. This research is focused on design of a series of chemically modified sulfonyl derivatives based on the isolated magnolol framework and other medicinally privileged molecular scaffolds framework that can effectively bind to the COVID-19 main protease, SARS- CoV-2 3CL protease …
Analysis Of The Functional Relationship Of Protein Kinase Families Using Phospho-Proteomics Data, David A. Parra Peña
Analysis Of The Functional Relationship Of Protein Kinase Families Using Phospho-Proteomics Data, David A. Parra Peña
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As cancer research advances, Mass-spectrometry based proteomics is becoming a widely used technique for proteome characterization. Phosphoproteomics is a specific type of proteomics that characterizes proteins with the reversible post-translational modification of phosphorylation PTM), which has allowed the identifications of thousands of phosphorylation sites. These phosphorylation sites, also known as substrates, are known to interact with a protein type named kinases. Studies have shown that abnormal phosphorylation activity is related to cancer diseases. Moreover, these kinases are divided into families, based on the similarity of their catalytic domain, as this part of their amino acid sequence determines a large part …
Characterization Of Dna Interstrand Cross-Linking Agents By Liquid Chromatograhy-Mass Spectrometry, Anahit Marina Campbell
Characterization Of Dna Interstrand Cross-Linking Agents By Liquid Chromatograhy-Mass Spectrometry, Anahit Marina Campbell
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This study is to characterize novel reactive oxygen species (ROS)-activated nitrogen mustard analogues and UV-activated alkylating agents by Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS). First, we optimized the instrument conditions to successfully ionize a few novel binapthalene analogues and methoxybenzene analogues by MS. The highest signal intensity for compounds 3-10 was observed when atmospheric pressure chemical ionization (APCI) with an optimized corona needle position of 5mm or 10 mm was used, which led to successful analysis of compounds 3-10 by MS. Second, we determined pharmacokinetic properties of a drug compound (FAN-NM-CH3), including animal study, assay development, optimization of MS/MS instrumental parameter and …