Search Results - "Tan, Derek S."
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Cheminformatic comparison of approved drugs from natural product versus synthetic origins
Published in Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters (01-11-2015)“…[Display omitted] Despite the recent decline of natural product discovery programs in the pharmaceutical industry, approximately half of all new drug approvals…”
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Diversity-oriented synthesis: exploring the intersections between chemistry and biology
Published in Nature chemical biology (01-07-2005)“…Diversity-oriented synthesis (DOS) is an emerging field involving the synthesis of combinatorial libraries of diverse small molecules for biological screening…”
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Cheminformatic analysis of natural product-based drugs and chemical probes
Published in Natural product reports (26-01-2022)“…Covering: 1981 to 2019Natural products continue to play a major role in drug discovery, with half of new chemical entities based structurally on a natural…”
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Biomimetic diversity-oriented synthesis of benzannulated medium rings via ring expansion
Published in Nature chemical biology (01-01-2013)“…Medium-sized ring structures can provide unique entry points into natural product–like chemical space but are synthetically challenging to access. A…”
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General Platform for Systematic Quantitative Evaluation of Small-Molecule Permeability in Bacteria
Published in ACS chemical biology (21-11-2014)“…The chemical features that impact small-molecule permeability across bacterial membranes are poorly understood, and the resulting lack of tools to predict…”
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Structural basis for adenylation and thioester bond formation in the ubiquitin E1
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (30-07-2019)“…The ubiquitin (Ub) and Ub-like (Ubl) protein-conjugation cascade is initiated by E1 enzymes that catalyze Ub/Ubl activation through C-terminal adenylation,…”
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A diversity-oriented synthesis approach to macrocycles via oxidative ring expansion
Published in Nature chemical biology (11-03-2012)“…Macrocycles are well represented in natural product structures but have been challenging to access for inclusion in synthetic libraries. A new method uses ring…”
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Targeting adenylate-forming enzymes with designed sulfonyladenosine inhibitors
Published in Journal of antibiotics (01-06-2019)“…Adenylate-forming enzymes are a mechanistic superfamily that are involved in diverse biochemical pathways. They catalyze ATP-dependent activation of carboxylic…”
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Total Synthesis, Relay Synthesis, and Structural Confirmation of the C18-Norditerpenoid Alkaloid Neofinaconitine
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (25-09-2013)“…The first total synthesis of the C18-norditerpenoid aconitine alkaloid neofinaconitine and relay syntheses of neofinaconitine and 9-deoxylappaconitine from…”
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Diisonitrile Lipopeptides Mediate Resistance to Copper Starvation in Pathogenic Mycobacteria
Published in mBio (26-10-2022)“…Bacterial pathogens and their hosts engage in intense competition for critical nutrients during infection, including metals such as iron, copper, and zinc…”
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Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Novel Cytotoxic Epoxyketones Using the Eponemycin Biosynthetic Enzyme EpnF
Published in ACS chemical biology (16-06-2023)“…Eponemycin is an α,β-epoxyketone natural product that inhibits the proteasome via covalent interaction of the epoxyketone warhead with catalytic N-terminal…”
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Principal component analysis as a tool for library design: a case study investigating natural products, brand-name drugs, natural product-like libraries, and drug-like libraries
Published in Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) (01-01-2015)“…Principal component analysis (PCA) is a useful tool in the design and planning of chemical libraries. PCA can be used to reveal differences in structural and…”
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Hydrogen-Bonding Catalysis and Inhibition by Simple Solvents in the Stereoselective Kinetic Epoxide-Opening Spirocyclization of Glycal Epoxides to Form Spiroketals
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (25-05-2011)“…Mechanistic investigations of a MeOH-induced kinetic epoxide-opening spirocyclization of glycal epoxides have revealed dramatic, specific roles for simple…”
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Stereoselective Synthesis of Acortatarins A and B
Published in Organic letters (07-09-2012)“…Acortatarins A and B have been synthesized via stereoselective spirocyclizations of glycals. Mercury-mediated spirocyclization of a pyrrole monoalcohol side…”
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Small-molecule inhibition of siderophore biosynthesis in Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Yersinia pestis
Published in Nature chemical biology (01-06-2005)“…Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Yersinia pestis, the causative agents of tuberculosis and plague, respectively, are pathogens with serious ongoing impact on…”
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The tert-Butylsulfinamide Lynchpin in Transition-Metal-Mediated Multiscaffold Library Synthesis
Published in Organic letters (07-05-2010)“…A unified synthetic approach to diverse polycyclic scaffolds has been developed using transition-metal-mediated cycloaddition and cyclization reactions of…”
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5-(Methylthio)tetrazoles as Versatile Synthons in the Stereoselective Synthesis of Polycyclic Pyrazolines via Photoinduced Intramolecular Nitrile Imine-Alkene 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition
Published in Chemical science (Cambridge) (01-01-2014)“…A key thioether substituent in readily accessible 2-alkyl-5-(methylthio)tetrazoles enables facile photoinduced denitrogenation and intramolecular nitrile imine…”
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Pharmacokinetic and In Vivo Efficacy Studies of the Mycobactin Biosynthesis Inhibitor Salicyl-AMS in Mice
Published in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (01-10-2013)“…Classifications Services AAC Citing Articles Google Scholar PubMed Related Content Social Bookmarking CiteULike Delicious Digg Facebook Google+ Mendeley Reddit…”
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Mechanism-based inhibitors of MenE, an acyl-CoA synthetase involved in bacterial menaquinone biosynthesis
Published in Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry (15-11-2008)“…The design, synthesis, and biochemical evaluation of mechanism-based OSB-CoA synthetase inhibitors is reported. Menaquinone (vitamin K 2) is an essential…”
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Advancing chemistry and biology through diversity-oriented synthesis of natural product-like libraries
Published in Current opinion in chemical biology (01-06-2005)“…Natural products provide the inspiration for a variety of strategies used in the diversity-oriented synthesis of novel small-molecule libraries. These…”
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