Topical Collection "Carbohydrate-Containing Molecules: A Platform of Opportunities for Drug Discovery"
A topical collection in Drugs and Drug Candidates (ISSN 2813-2998). This collection belongs to the section "Medicinal Chemistry and Preliminary Screening".
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Interests: organic chemistry; medicinal chemistry; carbohydrate and nucleos(t)ide chemistry; bioactive molecules; enzyme inhibitors; anticancer agents; antimicrobial agents; anti-Alzheimer’s agents
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Interests: carbohydrate chemistry; organic chemistry; medicinal chemistry; sugar-based drug discovery; antimicrobial resistance; antibiotic research; membrane-targeting drugs; drug-lipid interactions
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Topical Collection Information
Dear Colleagues,
The involvement of carbohydrates and carbohydrate-containing molecules in essential biological processes in health and disease has been the basis for the development of carbohydrate-based drugs. Carbohydrate-based compounds that may inhibit carbohydrate-active enzymes, nucleic acid synthesis, or carbohydrate–protein interactions have been developed towards new therapeutic agents for diseases such as cancer, diabetes, bacterial, parasitic or viral infections. The considerable advent of glycosciences in recent decades has also enabled the opening of new horizons for the search of molecules exhibiting innovative mechanisms of action and multiple-target drugs, as well as compounds with novel pharmacological applications or able to evade multidrug resistance mechanisms.
In this Topical Collection we aim to gather original research articles and reviews dealing with the search and development of carbohydrate-based bioactive compounds for drug discovery. In this context, we welcome manuscripts covering research findings within the synthesis, design and planning of new molecules, as well as their isolation, identification and biological evaluation, with a focus on recent advances.
Dr. Nuno Manuel Xavier
Dr. Ana M. de Matos
Collection Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- carbohydrates
- glycoconjugates
- glycomimetics
- nucleosides and nucleotides
- medicinal glycochemistry
- drug design and discovery
- carbohydrate-active enzymes
- carbohydrate-protein interactions
- carbohydrate-based bioactive molecules
- carbohydrate-based lead molecules
- carbohydrate-based therapeutics
