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SUBMITTER: Nicolaou KC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3084107 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nicolaou K C KC Sanchini Silvano S Sarlah David D Lu Gang G Wu T Robert TR Nomura Daniel K DK Cravatt Benjamin F BF Cubitt Beatrice B de la Torre Juan C JC Hessell Ann J AJ Burton Dennis R DR
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20110118 17
Modern drug discovery efforts rely, to a large extent, on lead compounds from two classes of small organic molecules; namely, natural products (i.e., secondary metabolites) and designed compounds (i.e., synthetic molecules). In this article, we demonstrate how these two domains of lead compounds can be merged through total synthesis and molecular design of analogs patterned after the targeted natural products, whose promising biological properties provide the motivation. Specifically, the presen ...[more]