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SUBMITTER: Wang C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3307826 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters 20120209 7
Parasitic diseases, such as African sleeping sickness, have a significant impact on the health and well-being in the poorest regions of the world. Pragmatic drug discovery efforts are needed to find new therapeutic agents. In this Letter we describe target repurposing efforts focused on trypanosomal phosphodiesterases. We outline the synthesis and biological evaluation of analogs of sildenafil (1), a human PDE5 inhibitor, for activities against trypanosomal PDEB1 (TbrPDEB1). We find that, while ...[more]