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Molecules, Volume 22, Issue 6

June 2017 - 171 articles

Cover Story: The increasing popularity of porphyrinoids in a variety of biomedical and technical applications is also associated with the growing number of methodologies that enable their solubilization in aqueous media. The chemical modifications to render synthetic porphyrins and hydroporphyrins water-soluble are reviewed in this paper, with a focus on progress since 2000. Aimed especially at synthetic chemists, it guides readers through the many strategies available, with particular concern for the aspects that are important for practitioners.
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Articles (171)

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,186 Views
23 Pages

Mycobacterium tuberculosis remains one of the world’s most devastating pathogens. For this reason, we developed a study involving 3D pharmacophore searching, selectivity analysis and database screening for a series of anti-tuberculosis compounds, ass...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,220 Views
8 Pages

Synthesis and Bioactivity Characterization of Scutellarein Sulfonated Derivative

  • Ting Gu,
  • Yue Zhong,
  • Yu-Ting Lu,
  • Ying Sun,
  • Ze-Xi Dong,
  • Wen-Yu Wu,
  • Zhi-Hao Shi,
  • Nian-Guang Li,
  • Xin Xue and
  • Fang Fang
  • + 2 authors

Scutellarin (1) has been widely used to treat acute cerebral infarction in clinic, but poor aqueous solubility decreases its bioavailability. Interestingly, scutellarin (1) could be metabolized into scutellarein (2) in vivo. In this study, a sulfonic...

  • Review
  • Open Access
36 Citations
8,006 Views
14 Pages

Cancer is the 2nd leading cause of death worldwide. The development of drugs to target only one specific signaling pathway has limited therapeutic success. Developing chemotherapeutics to target multiple signaling pathways has emerged as a new protot...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,174 Views
13 Pages

Virtual Screening against Phosphoglycerate Kinase 1 in Quest of Novel Apoptosis Inhibitors

  • Jie Xia,
  • Bo Feng,
  • Qianhang Shao,
  • Yuhe Yuan,
  • Xiang Simon Wang,
  • Naihong Chen and
  • Song Wu

Inhibition of apoptosis is a potential therapy to treat human diseases such as neurodegenerative disorders (e.g., Parkinson’s disease), stroke, and sepsis. Due to the lack of druggable targets, it remains a major challenge to discover apoptosis inhib...

  • Review
  • Open Access
99 Citations
15,036 Views
13 Pages

From Farm to Pharma: An Overview of Industrial Heparin Manufacturing Methods

  • Jan-Ytzen Van der Meer,
  • Edwin Kellenbach and
  • Leendert J. Van den Bos

The purification of heparin from offal is an old industrial process for which commercial recipes date back to 1922. Although chemical, chemoenzymatic, and biotechnological alternatives for this production method have been published in the academic li...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,214 Views
16 Pages

Areca catechu L. nut, a well-known toxic traditional herbal medicine, has been widely used to treat various diseases in China and many other Asian countries for centuries. However, to date the in vivo absorption and metabolism of its multiple bioacti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,016 Views
18 Pages

The Antiproliferative Effect of Cyclodipeptides from Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 on HeLa Cells Involves Inhibition of Phosphorylation of Akt and S6k Kinases

  • Laura Hernández-Padilla,
  • Dolores Vázquez-Rivera,
  • Luis A. Sánchez-Briones,
  • Alma L. Díaz-Pérez,
  • José Moreno-Rodríguez,
  • Mario A. Moreno-Eutimio,
  • Victor Meza-Carmen,
  • Homero Reyes-De la Cruz and
  • Jesús Campos-García

Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1, a potential pathogen of plants and animals, produces the cyclodipeptides cyclo(l-Pro-l-Tyr), cyclo(l-Pro-l-Phe), and cyclo(l-Pro-l-Val) (PAO1-CDPs), whose effects have been implicated in inhibition of human tumor cell lin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
6,541 Views
10 Pages

The Effects of Selected Sesquiterpenes from Myrica rubra Essential Oil on the Efficacy of Doxorubicin in Sensitive and Resistant Cancer Cell Lines

  • Martin Ambrož,
  • Petra Matoušková,
  • Adam Skarka,
  • Martina Zajdlová,
  • Kateřina Žáková and
  • Lenka Skálová

β-caryophyllene oxide (CAO), α-humulene (HUM), trans-nerolidol (NER) and valencene (VAL) are constituents of the essential oil of Myrica rubra (MEO), which has significant antiproliferative effect in various cancer cell lines. In the present study, w...

  • Review
  • Open Access
34 Citations
10,319 Views
23 Pages

Insights into Penicillium brasilianum Secondary Metabolism and Its Biotechnological Potential

  • Jaqueline Moraes Bazioli,
  • Luciana Da Silva Amaral,
  • Taícia Pacheco Fill and
  • Edson Rodrigues-Filho

Over the past few years Penicillium brasilianum has been isolated from many different environmental sources as soil isolates, plant endophytes and onion pathogen. All investigated strains share a great ability to produce bioactive secondary metabolit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
8,376 Views
10 Pages

Complex Coacervation of Soy Proteins, Isoflavones and Chitosan

  • Yu-Hsuan Hsiao,
  • Sheng-Yang Hsia,
  • Yin-Ching Chan and
  • Jung-Feng Hsieh

In this study, the chitosan-induced coacervation of soy protein-isoflavone complexes in soymilk was investigated. Most of the soymilk proteins, including β-conglycinin (7S), glycinin (11S), and isoflavones, were found to coacervate into the soymilk p...

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