Drug Design and Discovery
The research group Drug Design and Discovery uses medicinal chemistry, chemical biology, molecular modeling, and chemoinformatics for research in early drug discovery, focusing on antimicrobial molecules.
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- Craig, Alexander J.; Moodie, Lindon W. K.; Hawkes, Jeffrey A., 2024
- Wannberg, Johan; Gising, Johan; Henriksson, Martin et al., 2024
- Gising, Johan; Honarnejad, Saman; Bras, Maaike et al., 2024
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Publications
[18F]MK-7246 for Positron Emission Tomography Imaging of the Beta-Cell Surface Marker GPR44
Part of Pharmaceutics, 2023
2-Alkyl substituted benzimidazoles as a new class of selective AT2 receptor ligands
Part of Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, 2022
A Base-Free, Low Temperature Click and Release Reaction for the In Situ Generation of Diazomethane
Part of Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis, p. 1839-1845, 2023
A Genetically Encoded Picolyl Azide for Improved Live Cell Copper Click Labeling
Part of Frontiers in Chemistry, 2021
Part of Journal of Organic Chemistry, p. 8527-8537, 2021
Part of Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, p. 2446-2450, 2018
Part of European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2021
Antimicrobial Peptides Incorporating Halogenated Marine-Derived Amino Acid Substituents
Part of ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters, p. 802-809, 2023
Bacterial type I signal peptidase inhibitors-Optimized hits from nature
Part of European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2022
Benzothiadiazole-based donor-acceptor fluorophores: Synthesis and structure-property relationship
2021
Bifunctional and regenerable molecular electrode for water electrolysis at neutral pH
Part of Journal of Materials Chemistry A, p. 13331-13340, 2023
C1 Building Blocks: New Approaches for Thiomethylations and Esterification
2023
Part of Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, p. 820-833, 2019
Part of Analytical Chemistry, p. 6559-6567, 2023
Part of NEUROTHERAPEUTICS, p. 1142-1152, 2020
- DOI for Characterization of More Selective Central Nervous System Nrf2-Activating Novel Vinyl Sulfoximine Compounds Compared to Dimethyl Fumarate
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Part of International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022
Part of ChemCatChem, 2022
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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Conformational Analysis of Macrocycles: Comparing General and Specialized Methods
Part of Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design, p. 231-252, 2020
Conformational Changes in Insulin Regulated Aminopeptidase
2021
Part of European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2024
Development of an improved psilocybin synthesis
2020
Dipolar Relaxation of Water Protons in the Vicinity of a Collagen-like Peptide
Part of Journal of Physical Chemistry B, p. 2538-2551, 2022
2022
Drug Resistance and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress in Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Part of Cells, 2022
Electrochemical Palladium-Catalyzed Oxidative Carbonylation-Cyclization of Enallenols
Part of Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2022
2023
ENABLE: an engine for European antibacterial drug discovery and development
Part of Nature reviews. Drug discovery, p. 407-408, 2021
Part of Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis, p. 259-267, 2021
Enhanced Risk Assessment of Transformation Products through Chemical Similarity Analysis
Part of ACS - ES & T Water, p. 1949-1951, 2024
Part of Colloids and Surfaces A, 2023
High affinity rigidified AT(2) receptor ligands with indane scaffolds
Part of MedChemComm, p. 2146-2160, 2019
Part of Journal of the American Chemical Society, p. 17367-17376, 2023
Part of Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, p. 5526-5536, 2020
Imitation of β-lactam binding enables broad-spectrum metallo-β-lactamase inhibitors
Part of Nature Chemistry, p. 15-24, 2022
Part of ACS Omega, p. 24377-24381, 2021
Part of Scientific Reports, 2023
Part of ADMET & DMPK, p. 375-390, 2020
- DOI for Intestinal absorption of BCS class II drugs administered as nanoparticles: A review based on in vivo data from intestinal perfusion models
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2024
Investigation and design of 1,2,4-oxadiazole-based ligands for Sirtuin 2
2024
Part of ACS Catalysis, p. 2999-3008, 2021
- DOI for Investigation of the Deactivation and Reactivation Mechanism of a Heterogeneous Palladium(II) Catalyst in the Cycloisomerization of Acetylenic Acids by In Situ XAS
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Laser-Induced few-layers graphene formation from Phenolated lignin
Macrocyclic Peptidomimetics as Inhibitors of Insulin-Regulated Aminopeptidase (IRAP)
Part of RSC Medicinal chemistry, p. 234-244, 2020
Part of Nanoparticles in catalysis, p. 243-278, Springer Nature, 2020
N-(Heteroaryl)thiophene sulfonamides as angiotensin AT2 receptor ligands
Part of European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2024