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    PROTAC�ing oncoproteins: targeted protein degradation for cancer therapy
    (BioMed Central Ltd, 2023-03-30T00:00:00) Kelm, Jeremy M.; Pandey, Deepti S.; Malin, Evan; Kansou, Hussein; Arora, Sahil; Kumar, Raj; Gavande, Navnath S.
    Molecularly targeted cancer therapies substantially improve patient outcomes, although the durability of their effectiveness can be limited. Resistance to these therapies is often related to adaptive changes in the target oncoprotein which reduce binding affinity. The arsenal of targeted cancer therapies, moreover, lacks coverage of several notorious oncoproteins with challenging features for inhibitor development. Degraders are a relatively new therapeutic modality which deplete the target protein by hijacking the cellular protein destruction machinery. Degraders offer several advantages for cancer therapy including resiliency to acquired mutations in the target protein, enhanced selectivity, lower dosing requirements, and the potential to abrogate oncogenic transcription factors and scaffolding proteins. Herein, we review the development of proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) for selected cancer therapy targets and their reported biological activities. The medicinal chemistry of PROTAC design has been a challenging area of active research, but the recent advances in the field will usher in an era of rational degrader design. � 2023, This is a U.S. Government work and not under copyright protection in the US; foreign copyright protection may apply.
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    Nitrogen Containing Heterocycles as Anticancer Agents: A Medicinal Chemistry Perspective
    (MDPI, 2023-02-15T00:00:00) Kumar, Adarsh; Singh, Ankit Kumar; Singh, Harshwardhan; Vijayan, Veena; Kumar, Deepak; Naik, Jashwanth; Thareja, Suresh; Yadav, Jagat Pal; Pathak, Prateek; Grishina, Maria; Verma, Amita; Khalilullah, Habibullah; Jaremko, Mariusz; Emwas, Abdul-Hamid; Kumar, Pradeep
    Cancer is one of the major healthcare challenges across the globe. Several anticancer drugs are available on the market but they either lack specificity or have poor safety, severe side effects, and suffer from resistance. So, there is a dire need to develop safer and target-specific anticancer drugs. More than 85% of all physiologically active pharmaceuticals are heterocycles or contain at least one heteroatom. Nitrogen heterocycles constituting the most common heterocyclic framework. In this study, we have compiled the FDA approved heterocyclic drugs with nitrogen atoms and their pharmacological properties. Moreover, we have reported nitrogen containing heterocycles, including pyrimidine, quinolone, carbazole, pyridine, imidazole, benzimidazole, triazole, ?-lactam, indole, pyrazole, quinazoline, quinoxaline, isatin, pyrrolo-benzodiazepines, and pyrido[2,3-d]pyrimidines, which are used in the treatment of different types of cancer, concurrently covering the biochemical mechanisms of action and cellular targets. � 2023 by the authors.
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    The medicinal perspective of 2,4-thiazolidinediones based ligands as antimicrobial, antitumor and antidiabetic agents: A review
    (John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2022-06-18T00:00:00) Kajal, Kumari; Singh, Gurpreet; Pradhan, Tathagata; Bhurta, Deendyal; Monga, Vikramdeep
    2,4-Thiazolidinedione (2,4-TZD), commonly known as glitazone, is a ubiquitous heterocyclic pharmacophore possessing a plethora of pharmacological activities and offering a vast opportunity for structural modification. The diverse range of biological activities endowed with a novel mode of action, low cost, and easy synthesis has attracted the attention of medicinal chemists. Several researchers have integrated the TZD core with different structural fragments to develop a wide range of lead molecules against various clinical disorders. The most common sites for structural modifications at the 2,4-TZD nucleus are the N-3 and the active methylene at C-5. The review covers the recent development of TZD derivatives such as antimicrobial, anticancer, and antidiabetic agents. Various 2,4-TZD based agents or drugs, which are either under clinical development or in the market, are discussed in the study. Different synthetic methodologies for synthesizing the 2,4-TZD core are also included in the manuscript. The importance of various substitutions at N-3 and C-5 and the mechanisms of action and structure�activity relationships are also discussed. We hope this study will serve as a valuable tool for the scientific community engaged in the structural exploitation of the 2,4-TZD core for developing novel drug m\olecules for life-threatening ailments. � 2022 Deutsche Pharmazeutische Gesellschaft.