Calcium channel antagonists discovered by a multidisciplinary approach.

نویسندگان

  • Emanuele Carosati
  • Gabriele Cruciani
  • Alberto Chiarini
  • Roberta Budriesi
  • Pierfranco Ioan
  • Raffaella Spisani
  • Domenico Spinelli
  • Barbara Cosimelli
  • Fabio Fusi
  • Maria Frosini
  • Rosanna Matucci
  • Francesco Gasparrini
  • Alessia Ciogli
  • Philip J Stephens
  • Frank J Devlin
چکیده

A multidisciplinary project has led to the discovery of novel, structurally diverse, L-type calcium entry blockers (CEBs). The absolute configuration of a recently reported CEB has been determined by vibrational circular dichroism spectroscopy, to assign the stereospecificity of the ligand-channel interaction. Thereafter, a virtual screening procedure was performed with the aim of identifying novel chemotypes for CEBs, starting from a database of purchasable compounds; 340,000 molecules were screened in silico in order to prioritize structures of interest for bioscreening. As a result, 20 compounds were tested in vitro, and functional and binding assays revealed several hits with promising behavior as CEBs.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of medicinal chemistry

دوره 49 17  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2006