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Neuroscience: Your brain is chemical. Small molecules mediate its communication, maintenance, function and dysfunction. Our lab has published methods to synthesize important classes of CNS-active metabolites including potent nAChR inhibitors and Illicium terpenes, sometimes called ‘neurotrophic terpenes.’ We proposed that these latter metabolites enhance neurite outgrowth through binding to the CysLoop family of neurotransmitter-gated ion channels–probably GABAa receptors. Our chemistry allows us to match the combinatorial nature of these receptors with a combinatorial assembly of terpenes. More recently, we proposed a computational workflow called CANDOR (Computed Affinity / Dynamically Ordered Retrosynthesis) to rapidly synthesize a stabilized salvinorin A analog that potently and selectively agonizes the kappa opioid receptor (KOR), a target for next generation pain therapeutics. This synthesis is being used to generate important KOR tool compounds, but we anticipate the CANDOR workflow will accelerate the deployment of many other natural product scaffolds in medicinal chemistry campaigns.
Neuroscience: Your brain is chemical. Small molecules mediate its communication, maintenance, function and dysfunction. Our lab has published methods to synthesize important classes of CNS-active metabolites including potent nAChR inhibitors and Illicium terpenes, sometimes called ‘neurotrophic terpenes.’ We proposed that these latter metabolites enhance neurite outgrowth through binding to the CysLoop family of neurotransmitter-gated ion channels–probably GABAa receptors. Our chemistry allows us to match the combinatorial nature of these receptors with a combinatorial assembly of terpenes. More recently, we proposed a computational workflow called CANDOR (Computed Affinity / Dynamically Ordered Retrosynthesis) to rapidly synthesize a stabilized salvinorin A analog that potently and selectively agonizes the kappa opioid receptor (KOR), a target for next generation pain therapeutics. This synthesis is being used to generate important KOR tool compounds, but we anticipate the CANDOR workflow will accelerate the deployment of many other natural product scaffolds in medicinal chemistry campaigns.
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Nathan Dao,Ryan A. Shenvi
Tetrahedronpp.134204, (2024)
Journal of organic chemistry (2024)
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETYno. 4 (2024): 2351-2357
Xu-cheng Gan,Benxiang Zhang,Nathan Dao,Cheng Bi, Maithili Pokle, Liyan Kan,Michael R. Collins, Chet C. Tyrol,Philippe N. Bolduc, Michael Nicastri,Yu Kawamata,Phil S. Baran,Ryan Shenvi
SCIENCEno. 6691 (2024): 113-118
ACS CENTRAL SCIENCEno. 3 (2024): 519-528
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Journal of the American Chemical Societyno. 37 (2023): 20634-20645
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#Papers: 120
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