Lead/Drug Discovery from Natural Resources

Autor: Zhihong Xu, Barrett Eichler, Eytan A. Klausner, Jetty Duffy-Matzner, Weifan Zheng
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Molecules, Vol 27, Iss 23, p 8280 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1420-3049
DOI: 10.3390/molecules27238280
Popis: Natural products and their derivatives have been shown to be effective drug candidates against various diseases for many years. Over a long period of time, nature has produced an abundant and prosperous source pool for novel therapeutic agents with distinctive structures. Major natural-product-based drugs approved for clinical use include anti-infectives and anticancer agents. This paper will review some natural-product-related potent anticancer, anti-HIV, antibacterial and antimalarial drugs or lead compounds mainly discovered from 2016 to 2022. Structurally typical marine bioactive products are also included. Molecular modeling, machine learning, bioinformatics and other computer-assisted techniques that are very important in narrowing down bioactive core structural scaffolds and helping to design new structures to fight against key disease-associated molecular targets based on available natural products are considered and briefly reviewed.
Databáze: Directory of Open Access Journals
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