Biologically Active 2-Oxazolidinone Derivatives Beyond Antibacterial Activities.

2-Oxazolidinone is well known as a pharmacophore for antibacterial agents represented by two marketed medicines, Linezolid and Tedizolid. On the other hand, there are growing reports on the various biological activities of 2-oxazolidinones beyond antibacterial activities. Therefore, in this review, we provide an overview of the progress of this untraditional area of 2-oxazolidinones in the past 10 years (2011-2021).

ComABAN: refining molecular representation with the graph attention mechanism to accelerate drug discovery.

An unsolved challenge in developing molecular representation is determining an optimal method to characterize the molecular structure. Comprehension of intramolecular interactions is paramount toward achieving this goal. In this study, ComABAN, a new graph-attention-based approach, is proposed to improve the accuracy of molecular representation by simultaneously considering atom-atom, bond-bond and atom-bond interactions.

Advances in the Discovery of Novel Inhaled PI3Kδ Inhibitors for the Treatment of Asthma.

Bronchial asthma is the most common chronic respiratory illness, the incidence of which continues to increase annually. Currently, effective treatments for CS-resistant asthma and severe asthma are still lacking, and new therapeutic regimens are urgently required. PI3Kδ is a key enzyme in hematopoietic cells and represents a major target for oncology and inflammatory disease (particularly respiratory disease, asthma and COPD).