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SUBMITTER: Smith VC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3229842 | biostudies-other | 2011 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Smith Victoria C VC Cleghorn Laura A T LA Woodland Andrew A Spinks Daniel D Hallyburton Irene I Collie Iain T IT Mok N Yi NY Norval Suzanne S Brenk Ruth R Fairlamb Alan H AH Frearson Julie A JA Read Kevin D KD Gilbert Ian H IH Wyatt Paul G PG
ChemMedChem 20110810 10
Screening of the Sigma-Aldrich Library of Pharmacologically Active Compounds (LOPAC) against cultured Trypanosoma brucei, the causative agent of African sleeping sickness, resulted in the identification of a number of compounds with selective antiproliferative activity over mammalian cells. These included (+)-(1R,2R)-U50488, a weak opioid agonist with an EC(50) value of 59 nM as determined in our T. brucei in vitro assay reported previously. This paper describes the modification of key structura ...[more]