Design and synthesis of new imidazo[1,2-a]pyridine and imidazo[1,2-a]pyrazine derivatives with antiproliferative activity against melanoma cells.

Melanoma is an aggressive form of skin cancer and it is generally associated with poor prognosis in patients with late-stage disease. Due to the increasing occurrence of melanoma, there is a need for the development of novel therapies. A new series of diarylamide and diarylurea derivatives containing imidazo[1,2-a]pyridine or imidazo[1,2-a]pyrazine scaffold was designed and synthesized to investigate their in vitro efficacy against the A375P human melanoma cell line.

Lead selection and characterization of antitubercular compounds using the Nested Chemical Library.

Discovering new drugs to treat tuberculosis more efficiently and to overcome multidrug resistance is a world health priority. To find novel antitubercular agents several approaches have been used in various institutions worldwide, including target-based approaches against several validated mycobacterial enzymes and phenotypic screens. We screened more than 17,000 compounds from Vichem's Nested Chemical Library™ using an integrated strategy involving whole cell-based assays with Corynebacterium glutamicum and Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and target-based assays with protein kinases PknA, PknB and PknG as well as other targets such as PimA and bacterial topoisomerases simultaneously.

[Pyrido[2,3-b]pyrazines inhibiting both erlotinib-sensitive and erlotinib-resistant cell lines, and their preparation via regioselective condensation reaction].

The EGFR inhibitor erlotinib possesses high anti-tumor effect but despite the good clinical responses in most of the cases recrudescence occures. This can be attributed to a secondary, acquired mutation causing resistance to tyrosine kinase inhibitors. In our work we were looking for small-molecule inhibitors, which simultaneously affect on the proliferation of erlotinib-sensitive PC9 cells and PC9-ER erlotinib-resistant cells.

Synthesis and biological evaluation of novel pyrido[2,3-b]pyrazines inhibiting both erlotinib-sensitive and erlotinib-resistant cell lines.

A series of novel pyrido[2,3-b]pyrazines were synthesized as potential antitumor agents for erlotinib-resistant tumors. Known signal inhibitor compounds from our Nested Chemical Library were tested in phenotypic assays on erlotinib-sensitive PC9 and erlotinib-resistant PC9-ER cell lines to find a compound class to be active on erlotinib resistant cell lines. Based on the screening data, novel pyrido[2,3-b]pyrazines were designed and synthesized.