Anders Karlén
Professor at Department of Medicinal Chemistry; Drug Design and Discovery
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 42 93
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 167 91 77
- Fax:
- +46 18 471 44 74
- E-mail:
- anders.karlen@ilk.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Biomedicinskt Centrum BMC, Husargatan 3
- Postal address:
- Box 574
751 23 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
Anders Karlén received his PhD in 1989 and became a full professor in 2007. He specializes in the field of computational medicinal chemistry and focuses on hit identification and lead development. His group works closely on targets of importance in infectious diseases with a focus on Tuberculosis and Gram-negative infections. He is the overall medicinal chemistry project leader for drug discovery efforts currently directed at five different anti-bacterial targets.

Publications
Recent publications
The AMR Accelerator: from individual organizations to efficient antibiotic development partnerships
Part of Nature reviews. Drug discovery, p. 1-2, 2025
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Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2024
- DOI for Antibiotic class with potent in vivo activity targeting lipopolysaccharide synthesis in Gram-negative bacteria
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Part of European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2024
- DOI for Design, synthesis, and in vitro biological evaluation of meta-sulfonamidobenzamide-based antibacterial LpxH inhibitors
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Novel Allosteric Mechanism of Dual p53/MDM2 and p53/MDM4 Inhibition by a Small Molecule
Part of Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2022
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Bacterial type I signal peptidase inhibitors-Optimized hits from nature
Part of European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2022
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The AMR Accelerator: from individual organizations to efficient antibiotic development partnerships
Part of Nature reviews. Drug discovery, p. 1-2, 2025
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Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2024
- DOI for Antibiotic class with potent in vivo activity targeting lipopolysaccharide synthesis in Gram-negative bacteria
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Part of European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2024
- DOI for Design, synthesis, and in vitro biological evaluation of meta-sulfonamidobenzamide-based antibacterial LpxH inhibitors
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Novel Allosteric Mechanism of Dual p53/MDM2 and p53/MDM4 Inhibition by a Small Molecule
Part of Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2022
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Bacterial type I signal peptidase inhibitors-Optimized hits from nature
Part of European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2022
Part of ACS - Infectious Diseases, p. 482-498, 2022
- DOI for Synthesis and in vitro biological evaluation of quinolinyl pyrimidines targeting type II NADH-dehydrogenase (NDH-2)
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Part of Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, 2021
- DOI for Computational studies of molecular pre-organization through macrocyclization: Conformational distribution analysis of closely related non-macrocyclic and macrocyclic analogs
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ENABLE: an engine for European antibacterial drug discovery and development
Part of Nature reviews. Drug discovery, p. 407-408, 2021
Part of European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2021
- DOI for Antibacterial sulfonimidamide-based oligopeptides as type I signal peptidase inhibitors: Synthesis and biological evaluation
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Conformational Analysis of Macrocycles: Comparing General and Specialized Methods
Part of Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design, p. 231-252, 2020
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Part of European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, p. 1346-1360, 2018
Docking of Macrocycles: Comparing Rigid and Flexible Docking in Glide
Part of Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, p. 190-202, 2017
Part of Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, p. 897-911, 2017
- DOI for Design, synthesis and in vitro biological evaluation of oligopeptides targeting E. coli type I signal peptidase (LepB)
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Predicting the Rate of Skin Penetration Using an Aggregated Conformal Prediction Framework
Part of Molecular Pharmaceutics, p. 1571-1576, 2017
Part of Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, p. 343-353, 2015
Part of ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters, p. 178-182, 2015
Part of Organic and biomolecular chemistry, p. 2612-2621, 2015
Part of ChemistryOpen, p. 342-362, 2015
- DOI for Optimization and Evaluation of 5-Styryl-Oxathiazol-2-one Mycobacterium tuberculosis Proteasome Inhibitors as Potential Antitubercular Agents
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Part of Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, p. 6595-6615, 2014
Novel Peptidomimetic Hepatitis C Virus NS3/4A Protease Inhibitors Spanning the P2–P1′ Region
Part of ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters, p. 249-254, 2014
Part of Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, p. 1790-1801, 2014
Part of Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, p. 1992-2000, 2013
DXR Inhibition by Potent Mono- and Disubstituted Fosmidomycin Analogues
Part of Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, p. 6190-6199, 2013
- DOI for DXR Inhibition by Potent Mono- and Disubstituted Fosmidomycin Analogues
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Part of MedChemComm, p. 620-626, 2012
Virtual Screening Data Fusion Using Both Structure- and Ligand-Based Methods
Part of Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, p. 225-232, 2012
Trisubstituted Imidazoles as Mycobacterium tuberculosis Glutamine Synthetase Inhibitors
Part of Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, p. 2894-2898, 2012
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Part of Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, p. 4964-4976, 2011
- DOI for Design, Synthesis, and X-ray Crystallographic Studies of alpha-Aryl Substituted Fosmidomycin Analogues as Inhibitors of Mycobacterium tuberculosis 1-Deoxy-D-xylulose 5-Phosphate Reductoisomerase
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Part of Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, p. 5403-5407, 2011
Part of Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, p. 3779-3792, 2011
Part of Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, p. 4917-4927, 2011
Part of Journal of Organic Chemistry, p. 8986-8998, 2011
- DOI for Synthesis of Functionalized Cinnamaldehyde Derivatives by an Oxidative Heck Reaction and Their Use as Starting Materials for Preparation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis 1-Deoxy-D-xylulose-5-phosphate Reductoisomerase Inhibitors
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Part of Antiviral Therapy, p. 841-852, 2010
Part of Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, p. 5413-5424, 2010
Discovery of Achiral Inhibitors of the Hepatitis C Virus NS3 Protease based on 2(1H)-pyrazinones
Part of Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, p. 6512-6525, 2010
Part of Journal of Peptide Science, p. 159-164, 2010
Part of Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, p. 8059-8071, 2010
Synthesis of a small library of non-symmetric cyclic sulfamide HIV-1 protease inhibitors
Part of Tetrahedron, p. 4049-4056, 2010
Part of Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, p. 4790-4793, 2009
Part of Journal of Molecular Biology, p. 504-513, 2009
- DOI for Structural basis for the inhibition of Mycobacterium tuberculosis glutamine synthetase by novel ATP-competitive inhibitors
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Modeling binding modes of angiotensin II and pseudopeptide analogues to the AT2 receptor
Part of Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling, p. 991-1003, 2008
Hepatitis C Virus NS3 Protease Inhibitors Comprising a Novel Aromatic P1 Moiety
Part of Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, p. 2955-2967, 2008
Part of Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, p. 2777-2786, 2008
Part of Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, p. 5501-5513, 2008
- DOI for Evaluation of the amino acid binding site of Mycobacterium tuberculosis glutamine synthetase for drug discovery
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Part of Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, p. 5590-5605, 2008
Part of Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling, p. 1237-1251, 2008
Ligands to the (IRAP)/AT4 receptor encompassing a 4-hydroxydiphenylmethane scaffold replacing Tyr2
Part of Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, p. 6924-6935, 2008
Part of Journal of Peptide Science, p. 822-832, 2007
Part of Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, p. 7795-7802, 2007
Small potent ligands to the insulin-regulated aminopeptidase (IRAP)/AT(4) receptor
Part of Journal of Peptide Science, p. 434-444, 2007
Part of Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling, p. 145-153, 2007
Part of Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, p. 1711-1715, 2007
Part of Combinatorial chemistry & high throughput screening, p. 783-789, 2007
Selective angiotensin II AT(2) receptor agonists devoid of the imidazole ring system
Part of Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, p. 7166-7183, 2007
Focused hierarchical design of peptide libraries - follow the lead
Part of Journal of Chemometrics, p. 486-495, 2007
Phenylglycine as a Novel P2 Scaffold in Hepatitis C Virus NS3 Protease Inhibitors
Part of Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, p. 1448-1474, 2007
Quantitative structure-activity relationships of pine weevil antifeedants, a multivariate approach
Part of Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, p. 9365-9372, 2007
Improved CoMFA modeling by optimization of settings.
Part of J Chem Inf Model, p. 355-64, 2006
Short pseudopeptides containing turn scaffolds with high AT(2) receptor affinity
Part of Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, p. 5963-5972, 2006
Part of Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, p. 6133-6137, 2006
Part of Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, p. 5303-5315, 2006
Part of Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, p. 7160-7168, 2006
Ligand bias of scoring functions in structure-based virtual screening.
Part of J Chem Inf Model, p. 1334-43, 2006
Part of Tetrahedron, p. 4671-4675, 2006
Part of J Med Chem, p. 6660-71, 2006
Cyclic sulfamide HIV-1 protease inhibitors, with sidechains spanning from P2/P2' to P1/P1'.
Part of Bioorg Med Chem, p. 755-64, 2005
Part of Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, p. 4009-4024, 2005
A new tool in peptide engineering: a photoswitchable stilbene-type beta-hairpin mimetic.
Part of Chemistry, p. 403-12, 2005
Part of Bioorg Med Chem, p. 5371-90, 2005
First Reported Nonpeptide AT1 Receptor Agonist (L-162,313) Acts as an AT2 Receptor Agonist in Vivo
Part of Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, p. 1536-1546, 2004
Part of Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, p. 859-870, 2004
Synthesis and AT2 receptor-binding properties of angiotensin II analogues
Part of Journal of Peptide Research, p. 194-201, 2004
Mycobacterium tuberculosis ribose-5-phosphate isomerase has a known fold, but a novel active site.
Part of J Mol Biol, p. 799-809, 2004
Part of J Med Chem, p. 6009-19, 2004
Part of Drug Metab Dispos, p. 1218-29, 2004
Part of J Med Chem, p. 907-14, 2004
Part of Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, p. 1767-1777, 2002
Part of J Pharm Pharmacol, p. 1477, 2001
Part of Journal of Biomolecular Screening, p. 353-359, 2000
Angiotensin II analogues encompassing 5,9-and 5,10-fused thiabicycloalkane tripeptide mimetics
Part of Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, p. 4524-4537, 1999
Part of Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, p. 4054-4061, 1999
Unexpected binding mode of a cyclic sulfamide HIV-1 protease inhibitor
Part of Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, p. 898-902, 1997
Synthesis of C-2 symmetric potential inhibitors of HIV-1 protease from D-mannitol
Part of Journal of carbohydrate chemistry, p. 555-569, 1996
Articles, review/survey
Towards the sustainable discovery and development of new antibiotics
Part of Nature Reviews Chemistry, p. 726-749, 2021
The global preclinical antibacterial pipeline
Part of Nature Reviews Microbiology, p. 275-285, 2020
Part of Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, p. 290-295, 2016
Discovery and preclinical development of new antibiotics
Part of Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences, p. 162-169, 2014