Publications by authors named "Mingjie Chu"

To develop new antibacterial agents, a series of novel triazole-containing pyrazole ester derivatives were designed and synthesized and their biological activities were evaluated as potential topoisomerase II inhibitors. Compound exhibited the most potent antibacterial activity with Minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) alues of 4 µg/mL, 2 µg/mL, 4 µg/mL, and 0.5 µg/mL against , , , and , respectively.

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The identification of novel Topoisomerase II (Topo II) inhibitors is one of the most attractive directions in the field of bactericide research and development. In our ongoing efforts to pursue the class of inhibitors, six series of 70 novel coumarin-pyrazole carboxamide derivatives were designed and synthesized. As a result of the evaluation against four destructive bacteria, including Staphylococcus aureus, Listeria monocytogenes, Escherichia coli and Salmonella.

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Zijuan tea is a special cultivar of Yunnan broad-leaf tea (Camellia sinensis var. assamica) with purple buds, leaves, and stems. Phytochemical study on this tea led to the discovery of three hydroxycinnamoylated catechins (HCCs) (1-3), seven other catechins (4-10), three proanthocyanidins (11-13), five flavones and flavone glycosides (14-18), two alkaloids (19, 20), one steroid (21), and one phenylpropanoid glycoside (22).

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Correction for 'Intermolecular interactions boost aggregation induced emission in carbazole Schiff base derivatives' by Xiaoping Gan, et al., Org. Biomol.

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Six D-π-A model compounds (compounds 1-6) were conveniently synthesized and characterized by H NMR, C NMR, MS and single crystal X-ray diffraction. One photon absorption and emission properties were studied by using a series of UV-visible and fluorescence spectra and theoretical calculations were applied to investigate the structure-property relationships, which showed that all six compounds possessed an obvious intramolecular charge transfer process which could be attributed to their optical properties. We simultaneously investigated their fluorescence emission performance in water/acetonitrile mixtures and found that they all have outstanding aggregation induced emission properties.

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Background: Succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) plays an important role in the Krebs cycle, which is considered as an attractive target for development of succinate dehydrogenase inhibitors (SDHIs) based on antifungal agents. Thus, in order to discover novel molecules with high antifungal activities, SDH as the target for a series of novel nicotinamide derivatives bearing substituted pyrazole moieties were designed and synthesised via a one-pot reaction.

Results: The biological assay data showed that compound 3 l displayed the most potent antifungal activity with EC values of 33.

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Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) is a key enzyme which present in the central nervous system of living organisms. Organophosphorus pesticides (OPs) that serve as insecticides are AChE inhibitors which have been used widely in agriculture. A series of novel OPs containing pyrazole moiety have been designed and synthesized.

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Mitogen activated protein kinase (MAPK) signal transduction pathway has been proved to play an important role in tumorigenesis and cancer development. MEK inhibitor has been demonstrated significant clinical benefit for blocking MAPK pathway activation and possibly could block reactivation of the MAPK pathway at the time of BRAF inhibitor resistance. Twenty N-(benzyloxy)-1,3-diphenyl-1H-pyrazole-4-carboxamide derivatives have been designed and synthesized as MEK inhibitors, and their biological activities were evaluated.

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A series of novel (E)-1,3-diphenyl-1H-pyrazole derivatives containing O-benzyl oxime moiety were firstly synthesized and their immunosuppressive activities were evaluated. Among all the compounds, 4n exhibited the most potent inhibitory activity (IC50 = 1.18 μM for lymph node cells and IC50 = 0.

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A series of novel pyrazole amide derivatives 3a-3p which take TMV PC protein as the target has been designed and synthesized by the reactions of 5-chloro-1-aryl-3-methyl-1H-pyrazole-4-carboxylic acids with 5-amino-1-aryl-1H-pyrazole-4-carbonitriles. All the compounds were characterized by 1H-NMR, mass spectroscopy and elemental analysis. Preliminary bioassays indicated that all the compounds acted against the tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) with different in vivo and in vitro modes at 500 μg/mL and were found to possess promising activity.

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Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. To identify genetic factors that modify the risk of lung cancer in individuals of Chinese ancestry, we performed a genome-wide association scan in 5,408 subjects (2,331 individuals with lung cancer (cases) and 3,077 controls) followed by a two-stage validation among 12,722 subjects (6,313 cases and 6,409 controls). The combined analyses identified six well-replicated SNPs with independent effects and significant lung cancer associations (P < 5.

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The study with high-pressure mercury lamp illuminating showed that after illuminated for 15 min, NO2- and NO3- quenched the photolysis of mefenacet, and NO3- with a concentration ratio 10:1 (mass) had the most obvious effect, its quenching rate being up to 53.3%. Halogen ions inhibited the photolysis of mefenacet by "weight atom effect".

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