Abstract:
A vinca alkaloid compound that is substituted at the 20'-position with a urea or thiourea group is disclosed. The urea's proximal nitrogen atom bonded to the 20'-position carbon atom is secondary, whereas the distal nitrogen atom can be unsubstituted only when the compound contains an optionally present 10'-fluoro substituent, and is otherwise preferably mono- or di-substituted. Methods of preparing the compounds are disclosed as are compositions for their use and methods of treatment using a compound.
Abstract:
A 10'-fluoro-vinca alkaloid compound or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt is disclosed, as are methods of its preparation and use. A disclosed 10'-fluoro-vinca alkaloid compound has better cytotoxic potency against leukemia and cancer cell lines, and is about 8-times more cytotoxic to a multiple drug resistant cancer cell line than is a parental 10'-unsubstituted vinca alkaloid.
Abstract:
Certain oxadiazole ketone compounds are useful as FAAH inhibitors. Such compounds may be used in pharmaceutical compositions and methods for the treatment of disease states, disorders, and conditions mediated by fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) activity. Thus, the compounds may be administered to treat anxiety, pain, inflammation, sleep disorders, eating disorders, or movement disorders (such as MS).
Abstract:
Methods for treating a neoplastic disease with an antibody-cytotoxin conjugate molecule, methods of synthesizing an antibody-cytotoxin conjugate molecule are provided. Compounds that are useful as antibody-cytotoxin conjugate molecule or useful in the synthesis of these molecules are also provided.
Abstract:
A series of vancomycin C-terminus guanidine modifications are disclosed that improve antimicrobial activity, enhance the durability of antimicrobial action against selection or induction of resistance, and provide two synergistic mechanisms of action independent of D-Ala-D-Ala binding that cause inhibition of cell wall biosynthesis, while inducing bacterial cell permeability. A contemplated compound contains two combined peripheral modifications, a (4-chlorobiphenyl)methyl (CBP) and C-terminus guanidine modification, that provide new treatments against not only vancomycin-sensitive, but especially vancomycin- resistant bacteria. The data demonstrate that the synergistic behavior of the peripheral modifications requires the presence of both the CBP and guanidine modifications in a single molecule versus their combined use as an equimolar mixture of singly modified compounds. A prototypical member of the series, G3- CBP-vancomycin (15), exhibits no hemolytic activity, displays no mammalian cell growth inhibition, and possesses improved and especially attractive in vivo pharmacokinetic (PK) properties.
Abstract:
A C-terminus modification to a binding pocket-modified vancomycin introduces a quaternary ammonium salt that provides a binding pocket-modified vancomycin analog with a second mechanism of action that is independent of D-Ala-D-Ala/D-Ala-D-Lac binding. The modification disrupts cell wall integrity and induces cell wall permeability complementary to the glycopeptide inhibition of cell wall synthesis, and provides synergistic improvements in antimicrobial potency (200-fold) against vancomycin-resistant bacteria. Combining the C- terminus and binding pocket modifications with an orthogonal (4-chlorobiphenyl ) methyl addition to the vancomycin disaccharide provides even more potent antimicrobial agents whose activity can be attributed to three independent and synergistic mechanisms of action, only one of which requires D-Ala-D-Ala/D-Ala- D-Lac binding. The resulting modified vancomycins display little propensity for acquired resistance through serial exposure of vancomycin-resistant Enterococci and their durability against such challenges as well as their antimicrobial potency follow predicable trends. Methods of treatment with and compositions containing the modified vancomycins are disclosed.
Abstract:
A MD-2:TLR4 complex agonist compound is disclosed whose structure corresponds to Formula (I), as defined within. Also disclosed are a method of its preparation and use, as well as a pharmaceutical composition containing the same.
Abstract:
The invention provides a series of C4-substituted oxazole compounds having an alpha keto side chain at the 2 position, for example, compounds of formula I. The compounds can inhibit fatty acid amide hydrolase and can be useful for treatment of malconditions modulated by fatty acid amide hydrolase. The invention further provides methods of making compounds of formula I, useful intermediates in the preparation of compounds of formula I, and methods of using compounds of formula I and compositions thereof.
Abstract:
Certain oxazole ketone compounds are described, which are useful as FAAH inhibitors. Such compounds may be used in pharmaceutical compositions and methods for the treatment of disease states, disorders, and conditions mediated by fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) activity. Thus, the compounds may be administered to treat, e.g., anxiety, pain, inflammation, sleep disorders, eating disorders, or movement disorders (such as multiple sclerosis).
Abstract:
[ψ[CH 2 NH]PG 4 ] glycopeptide antibiotic analogs are reengineered forms of glycopeptides that exhibit antimicrobial activity against both wild type and glycopeptide antibiotic resistant strains of microorganisms. For example, [Ψ[CH 2 NH]Tpg 4 ] vancomycin aglycon is a reengineered form of vancomycin that exhibits antimicrobial activity (MIC = 31 µg/mL) against both wild type and VanA resistant organism ( E. faecalis BM4166). The VanA resistant organism achieves its resistance, upon glycopeptide antibiotic challenge, by remodeling its D-Ala-D-Ala peptidoglycan cell wall precursor to D-Ala-D-Lac. [ψ[CH 2 NH]PG 4 ] glycopeptide antibiotic analogs have an altered glycopeptide backbone wherein the carbonyl of the fourth amino acid residue of the glycopeptide backbone has been replaced with a methylene. This alteration of the glycopeptide backbone imparts dual binding affinities for both D-Ala-D-Ala and D-Ala-D-Lac and dual antimicrobial activities for both wild type and resistant strains. For example, [Ψ[CH 2 NH]Tpg 4 ]vancomycin aglycon displays a antimicrobial potency that reflects its altered binding characteristics.