Chemaxon blog

12 09 2019
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Combined Ligand and Fragment-based Drug Design of Selective Histone Deacetylase – 6 Inhibitors

Histone deacetylase 6 (HDAC6) is unique hydrolase within HDAC family, having pleiotropic...

12 09 2019
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Site-Specific In Vivo Bioorthogonal Ligation via Chemical Modulation

A critical limitation of bioorthogonal click chemistry for in vivo applications has been its low...

12 09 2019
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Fourfold Filtered Statistical/Computational Approach for the Identification of Imidazole Compounds as HO-1 Inhibitors from Natural Products

Over-regulation of Heme oxygenase 1 (HO-1) has been recently identified in many types of human...

12 09 2019
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Computational exploration of molecular receptive fields in the olfactory bulb reveals a glomerulus-centric chemical map

Progress in olfaction is currently hampered by incomplete knowledge about chemical receptive ranges...

12 09 2019
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A Structure- and Ligand-Based Virtual Screening of a Database of “Small” Marine Natural Products for the Identification of “Blue” Sigma-2 Receptor Ligands

Sigma receptors are a fascinating receptor protein class whose ligands are actually under clinical...

12 09 2019
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Low-basicity 5-HT7 Receptor Agonists Synthesized Using the van Leusen Multicomponent Protocol

A series of 5-aryl-1-alkylimidazole derivatives was synthesized using the van Leusen multicomponent...

12 09 2019
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Optimization of a 1,3,4-oxadiazole series for inhibition of Ca2þ/ calmodulin-stimulated activity of adenylyl cyclases 1 and 8 for the treatment of chronic pain

Adenylyl cyclases type 1 (AC1) and 8 (AC8) are group 1 transmembrane adenylyl cyclases (AC) that...

12 09 2019
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Identification of a selective inhibitor of human monocarboxylate transporter 4

The human monocarboxylate transporters (hMCTs/SLC16As) mediate the uptake of various...

12 09 2019
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PSMA-targeted contrast agents for intraoperative imaging of prostate cancer

Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) can serve as a molecular cell surface target for the...

12 09 2019
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Use of dual-filtering to create training sets leading to improved accuracy in quantitative structure-retention relationships modelling for hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatographic systems

The development of quantitative structure retention relationships (QSRR) having sufficient accuracy...

12 09 2019
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Designing High-Refractive Index Polymers Using Materials Informatics

A machine learning strategy is presented for the rapid discovery of new polymeric materials...

12 09 2019
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Indolizine-Based Scaffolds as Efficient and Versatile Tools: Application to the Synthesis of Biotin-Tagged Antiangiogenic Drugs

We describe the design and optimization of polyfunctional scaffolds based on a fluorescent...