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Integrated biosensing for diagnosis and therapy

Monitoring human metabolism is of crucial importance for personalized medicine. Many metabolic diseases can be treated by controlling various endogenous metabolites (e.g., glucose, lactate, cholesterol, etc.). Similarly, measuring the metabolism of exogeno ...

2011

A Competitive Co-cultivation Assay for Cancer Drug Specificity Evaluation

Christoph Merten

The identification of compounds that specifically inhibit or kill cancer cells without affecting cells from healthy tissues is very challenging but very important for reducing the side effects of current cancer therapies. Hence, there is an urgent need for ...

2011

Biological and structural characterization of the Mycobacterium smegmatis nitroreductase NfnB, and its role in benzothiazinone resistance

Stewart Cole, Joao Pedro De Almeida Neres, Giulia Manina

Summary Tuberculosis is still a leading cause of death in developing countries, for which there is an urgent need for new pharmacological agents. The synthesis of the novel antimycobacterial drug class of benzothiazinones (BTZs) and the identification of t ...

2010

Multiplexing pH and Temperature in a Molecular Biosensor

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Andrea Cavallini, Michele Daniel Torre, Daniela De Venuto

Robust and reliable measurements in electrochemical biosensing of molecules are crucial for personalized medicine. Electrochemical sensors based on cytochrome P450 can detect the large majority of drugs commonly used in pharmacological treatments. The same ...

2010

Dynamical Spot Queries to Improve Specificity in P450s based Multi-Drugs Monitoring

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Andrea Cavallini, Abhishek Garg

Personalized therapy requires accurate and frequent monitoring of drugs metabolic response in living organisms during drug treatments. In case of high risk side effects, e.g. therapies with interfering anti-cancer molecules cocktails, direct monitoring of ...

2009

Charting the molecular network of the drug target Bcr-Abl

Oliver Hantschel

The tyrosine kinase Bcr-Abl causes chronic myeloid leukemia and is the cognate target of tyrosine kinase inhibitors like imatinib. We have charted the protein-protein interaction network of Bcr-Abl by a 2-pronged approach. Using a monoclonal antibody we ha ...

2009

Rising standards for tuberculosis drug development

Stewart Cole

Development of new drugs to treat tuberculosis (TB) faces even more constraints than the development of therapeutic agents for other diseases. This is due, in part, to intrinsic properties of the tubercle bacillus, such as its slow growth, phenotypic drug ...

2008

Water-soluble prodrugs of cyclosporine A with tailored conversion rates

Arnaud Hamel

A novel type of water-soluble prodrugs of cyclosporine A (CsA) is described, featuring a modular system of an enzyme-cleavable group, a solubilizing moiety and a chemodegradable spacer attached to the hydroxyl function of (4R)-4-[(E)-2-butenyl]-4-,N-dimeth ...

2005

Cyclosporin analogues

Arnaud Hamel

Cyclosporins are a family of hydrophobic cyclic undecapeptides produced by the fungus Tolypocladium niveum. The main metabolite cyclosporin A (CsA, see Scheme, R = R' = H) is the first line drug currently used to prevent rejection of organ transplants. Its ...

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Pharmacological profiles of peptide drug candidates for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease

Amyloid plaques in brain, composed of aggregates of amyloid-beta peptide, play a central role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease and represent a good target for treatment. We have shown previously that a 5-amino acid beta-sheet breaker peptide (iAb ...

2003

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