Sebastian-Perez, Victor; Garcia-Rubia, Alfonso; Seif el-Din, Sayed H.; Sabra, Abdel-Nasser A.; El-Lakkany, Naglaa M.; William, Samia; Blundell, Tom L.; Maes, Louis; Martinez, Ana; Campillo, Nuria E.; Botros, Sanaa S.; Gil, Carmen published the artcile< Deciphering the enzymatic target of a new family of antischistosomal agents bearing a quinazoline scaffold using complementary computational tools>, Electric Literature of 20776-50-5, the main research area is quinazoline antischistosomal preparation target aldose reductase; Drug discovery; Schistosoma mansoni; quinazoline; target deconvolution.
A previous phenotypic screening campaign led to the identification of a quinazoline derivative with promising in vitro activity against Schistosoma mansoni. Follow-up studies of the antischistosomal potential of this candidate are presented here. The in vivo studies in a S. mansoni mouse model show a significant reduction of total worms and a complete disappearance of immature eggs when administered concomitantly with praziquantel in comparison with the administration of praziquantel alone. This fact is of utmost importance because eggs are responsible for the pathol. and transmission of the disease. Subsequently, the chem. optimization of the structure in order to improve the metabolic stability of the parent compound was carried out leading to derivatives with improved drug-like properties. Addnl., the putative target of this new class of antischistosomal compounds was envisaged by using computational tools and the binding mode to the target enzyme, aldose reductase, was proposed.
Journal of Enzyme Inhibition and Medicinal Chemistry published new progress about Drug targets. 20776-50-5 belongs to class bromides-buliding-blocks, and the molecular formula is C7H6BrNO2, Electric Literature of 20776-50-5.
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