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Inhibition Of Cysteine Protease By Platinum (Ii) Diamine Complexes, Chaitanya Rapolu Dec 2011

Inhibition Of Cysteine Protease By Platinum (Ii) Diamine Complexes, Chaitanya Rapolu

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Chemotherapy is the first line of treatment used in cancer. Chemotherapy drugs such as cisplatin, carboplatin and oxaliplatin are used in treatment. Cisplatin enters the cell through copper transporter CTR1 by passive diffusion and bind to DNA and proteins. Cisplatin is found to inhibit several enzymes targeting cysteine, histidine and methionine residues, which are expected to be responsible for its anticancer activity. A better understanding of how the size and shape and leaving ligands of platinum complexes affect cysteine protease, papain enzyme are studied. This could give new ways to optimize anticancer activity. The activity of papain enzyme was measured …


Cloning, Expression, And Characterization Of The Aminoethylphosphonate Pathway In Trypanosoma Cruzi, Samuel I. Rodriguez^, Esteban M. Cordero, Igor C. Almeida* Jul 2011

Cloning, Expression, And Characterization Of The Aminoethylphosphonate Pathway In Trypanosoma Cruzi, Samuel I. Rodriguez^, Esteban M. Cordero, Igor C. Almeida*

COURI Symposium Abstracts, Summer 2011

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A Survey Of Oxidative Paracatalytic Reactions Catalyzed By Enzymes That Generate Carbanionic Intermediates: Implications For Ros Production, Cancer Etiology, And Neurodegenerative Diseases, Victoria Bunik, John Schloss, John T. Pinto, Natalia Dudareva, Arthur J L Cooper Feb 2011

A Survey Of Oxidative Paracatalytic Reactions Catalyzed By Enzymes That Generate Carbanionic Intermediates: Implications For Ros Production, Cancer Etiology, And Neurodegenerative Diseases, Victoria Bunik, John Schloss, John T. Pinto, Natalia Dudareva, Arthur J L Cooper

NYMC Faculty Publications

Enzymes that generate carbanionic intermediates often catalyze paracatalytic reactions with O2 and other electrophiles not considered “normal” reactants. For example, pyridoxal 5′-phosphate (PLP)—containing pig kidney dopa decarboxylase oxidizes dopamine with molecular O2 to 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetaldehyde at about 1% of the rate at which it catalyzes nonoxidative dopa decarboxylation. The mutant Y332F enzyme, however, catalyzes stoichiometric conversion of dopa to 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetaldehyde, suggesting that even minor structural changes may alter or initiate paracatalytic reactions catalyzed by certain enzymes. Carbanions generated by several thiamine diphosphate (ThDP)—dependent enzymes react with different electrophiles, transforming some xenobiotics and endogenous compounds into potentially biologically hazardous products. The detrimental …


Substituted Coumarin Derivatives: Synthesis And Evaluation Of Antiproliferative And Src Kinase Inhibitory Activities, Abha Kathuria, Sarah Jalal, Rakesh Tiwari, Amir Nasrolahi Shirazi, Shilpi Gupta, Shiv Kumar, Keykavous Parang, Sunil K. Sharma Jan 2011

Substituted Coumarin Derivatives: Synthesis And Evaluation Of Antiproliferative And Src Kinase Inhibitory Activities, Abha Kathuria, Sarah Jalal, Rakesh Tiwari, Amir Nasrolahi Shirazi, Shilpi Gupta, Shiv Kumar, Keykavous Parang, Sunil K. Sharma

Pharmacy Faculty Articles and Research

Six classes of coumarin derivatives (i.e. 3-alkyl-4-methylcoumarins, pyranocoumarins, coumarin carboxamides, quaternary ammonium coumarins, 7-aminocoumarins, and 4-aminocoumarins) were synthesized and evaluated for inhibition of cell proliferation of colon adenocarcinoma (HT-29), breast carcinoma (MDA-MB-468 or MCF-7), and human ovarian adenocarcinoma (SK-OV-3) cells. C-3-Alkyl substituted analogs of 4-methylcoumarins and pyranocoumarins, 5 and 6, inhibited the cell proliferation of MDA-MB-468 and SK-OV-3 cells by 53-74%, while 3-decyl substituted pyranocoumarin 10 and triethyl substituted quaternary ammonium coumarin derivative 29 inhibited the cell proliferation of HT-29 and SK-OV-3 cells by 63-72% at a concentration of 50 μM. Among all the compounds studied, C-3 decyl substituted quaternary …


Synthesis, Biochemical And Molecular Modelling Studies Of Antiproliferative Azetidinones Causing Microtubule Disruption And Mitotic Catastrophe, Niamh O'Boyle, Miriam Carr, Lisa M. Greene, Niall O. Keely, Andrew Js Knox, Thomas Mccabe, David G. Lloyd, Daniela M. Zisterer, Mary J. Meegan Jan 2011

Synthesis, Biochemical And Molecular Modelling Studies Of Antiproliferative Azetidinones Causing Microtubule Disruption And Mitotic Catastrophe, Niamh O'Boyle, Miriam Carr, Lisa M. Greene, Niall O. Keely, Andrew Js Knox, Thomas Mccabe, David G. Lloyd, Daniela M. Zisterer, Mary J. Meegan

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The structure-activity relationships of antiproliferative β-lactams, focusing on modifications at the 4-position of the β-lactam ring, is described. Synthesis of this series of compounds was achieved utilizing the Staudinger and Reformatsky reactions. The antiproliferative activity was assessed in MCF-7 cells, where the 4-(4-ethoxy)phenyl substituted compound 26 displayed the most potent activity with an IC50 value of 0.22 μM. The mechanism of action was demonstrated to be by inhibition of tubulin. Cell exposure to combretastatin A-4 and 26 led to arrest of MCF-7 cells in the G2/M phase of the cell cycle and induction of apoptosis. Additionally, mitotic catastrophe for …