Dr. Michael González-Durruthy was hired to work on the project entitled iDrugCF: Identification of New Drugs for Cystic Fibrosis. This project is financed by the Portuguese Science Foundation (FCT) to discover and develop novel molecules able to rescue and potentiate… Read more ›
Dr. Bruno Gonçalves was hired to work on the project entitled Multidrug Resistance Reversal in Cancer: Natural Compounds as P-glycoprotein and Breast Cancer Resistance Protein Modulators. This project is financed by the Portuguese Science Foundation (FCT) to discover and develop… Read more ›
Dr. Daniela Peixoto was hired to work on the project entitled Drug Discovery for p53 PPI-targets. This project is financed by the Portuguese Science Foundation (FCT) to discover and develop novel molecules able of inhibiting the p53–MDM2/X interaction. The computational… Read more ›
Aim: Naringenin (1), isolated in large amount from the aerial parts of Euphorbia pedroi, was chemically derivatized to yield 18 imine derivatives (2–19) and three alkylated derivatives through a Mannich-type reaction (20–22) that were tested as multidrug resistance (MDR) reversers… Read more ›
Background: From a dataset obtained by chemical derivatization of a macrocyclic diterpenic scaffold, in silico approaches identified which structural features correlate with experimental modulation of P-gp activity. Results/methodology: Ninety-two percent of the strongest MDR modulators were positively identified within the… Read more ›
One of the greatest threats to cancer treatment is the development, by some tumors, of resistance to the pharmacological action of several structurally unrelated cytotoxic agents—multidrug resistance (MDR). As P-glycoprotein (P-gp) is one of the most studied ATP-dependent efflux pumps… Read more ›
Multidrug resistance (MDR) is a limiting step on the success of cancer chemotherapy. The drug efflux mediated by P-gp (P- glycoprotein) is one of the best studied mechanisms of MDR. This paper focuses on the inhibitory P-gp efflux activity, pharmacophore… Read more ›
Multidrug resistance related to the increased expression of P-glycoprotein (P-gp) by cancer cells is the major contributor for the failure of chemotherapeutic treatments. Starting from pharmacophores and data already published and in macrocyclic diterpenes isolated from Euphorbia species, a comprehensive… Read more ›