Overview
- Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by Kyoto University
- Describes a pioneering chemistry-based screening process for drug discovery
- Provides valuable insights for the field of organic chemistry, especially regarding the total synthesis of natural products and proteins
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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This thesis mainly describes the development of a screening process for a mirror-image library of chiral natural products. It demonstrates how, by using mirror-image proteins for the screening of available natural products, unavailable mirror-image isomers of natural products can be screened in a mirror process. Moreover, as mirror-image isomers including target proteins and natural products are mainly prepared by means of chemical synthesis, the screening strategy presented here suggests the importance of organic chemistry.
Natural products are commonly used as valuable resources for drug discovery. However, as they are mostly produced as single enantiomeric forms, researchers have tested o
nly natural products bearing one stereochemistry available in nature. As natural products and their enantiomers have identical physicochemical properties and different biological activities, mirror-image isomers of natural products are promising candidates for novel medicinal resources.
In an effort to identify anticancer agents from the mirror-image library, chemical protein syntheses of some target oncoproteins, MDM2, MDMX and Grb2, and their applications to the chemical array screening process were achieved. In the course of this process the NP843 enantiomer, which is the enantiomer of an α-tocopherol derivative, was successfully identified as a novel MDM2-p53 interaction inhibitor. These results clearly show that a mirror-image library of chiral natural products represents an invaluable medicinal resource. Accordingly, the chemistry-based screening strategy described in this thesis will be of great interest to a broad range of chemists involved in natural product, medicinal, and synthetic chemistry.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Development of Chemistry-Based Screening Platform for Access to Mirror-Image Library of Natural Products
Authors: Taro Noguchi
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6623-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-6622-1Published: 16 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4917-1Published: 23 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-6623-8Published: 03 November 2017
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 80
Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour
Topics: Medicinal Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology