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Fluids Barriers CNS
January 2025
Human Health Therapeutics Research Centre, National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Background: Iduronate-2-sulfatase (IDS) deficiency (MPS II; Hunter syndrome) is a disorder that exhibits peripheral and CNS pathology. The blood brain barrier (BBB) prevents systemic enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) from alleviating CNS pathology. We aimed to enable brain delivery of systemic ERT by using molecular BBB-Trojans targeting endothelial transcytosis receptors.
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January 2025
Laboratory for Marine Drugs and Bioproducts, Qingdao Marine Science and Technology Center, School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266071, China. Electronic address:
The emergence of New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-1 (NDM-1) poses a significant threat to the clinical application of antibiotics, as it possesses the ability to hydrolyze nearly all β-lactam antibiotics. Regrettably, there are currently no clinical drugs targeting NDM-1, making it imperative to develop highly potent and minimally toxic NDM-1 inhibitors. Herein, a series of molecular Trojan horses targeting NDM-1 were synthesized by introducing ebselen into 7-aminocephalosporanic acid derivatives via a C-Se bond.
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December 2024
Department of Surgery, Semey Medical University, Semey 071400, Kazakhstan.
Cancer is a therapeutically challenging and genomically complicated disease. Pioneering studies have uncovered multifaceted aspects of cancer, ranging from intra- and inter-tumor heterogeneity, drug resistance, and genetic/epigenetic mutations. Loss of apoptosis is another critical aspect that makes cancer cells resistant to death.
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January 2025
Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801.
Infections caused by gram-negative pathogens continue to be a major risk to human health because of the innate antibiotic resistance endowed by their unique cell membrane architecture. Nature has developed an elegant solution to target gram-negative strains, namely by conjugating toxic antibiotic warheads to a suitable carrier to facilitate the active import of the drug to a specific target organism. Microcin C7 (McC) is a Trojan horse peptide-conjugated antibiotic that specifically targets enterobacteria by exploiting active import through oligopeptide transport systems.
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December 2024
Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute for Biological Research "Siniša Stanković"-National Institute of the Republic of Serbia University of Belgrade Belgrade Serbia.
Biocontrol techniques that impair reproductive capacity of insect pests provide opportunities to control the dynamics of their populations while minimizing collateral damage to non-target species and the environment. The Trojan Female Technique, or TFT, is a method of the trans-generational fertility-based population control through the release of females that carry mitochondrial DNA mutations that negatively affect male, but not female, reproductive output. TFT is based on the evolutionary hypothesis that, due to maternal inheritance of mitochondria, mutations which are beneficial or neutral in females but harmful in males can accumulate in the mitochondrial genome without selection acting against them.
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