Carriers, Channels, Receptors, and Enzymes: Protein Targets of New Synthetic and Natural Compounds
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemical Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024 | Viewed by 281
Special Issue Editors
Interests: mitochondrial carrier; a-glucosidase inhibitors; AChE inhibitors; neurotoxicity; butyrylcholinesterase inhibitors
Interests: mitochondria; protein purification; antioxidant activity; biomolecules extraction; agricultural waste valorization; novel food
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Interests: medicinal chemistry; drug design; chirality; cancer; metabolic disorders; antibacterials; ion channels; rare diseases
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Proteins are biomolecules playing a key role in biochemical and physiological processes, especially as carriers, channels, receptors and enzymes. There are also various links between the malfunction or even absence of any of these functions and several human diseases, including diabetes, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases, infectious diseases, and cancer. Therefore, scientific research is committed to designing and synthesizing or extracting from natural sources new bioactive compounds that have protein biomolecules as pharmacological targets to develop innovative treatments of human pathologies. This Special Issue aims to collect and publish original research articles and reviews on the design, synthesis, and development of new bioactive molecules or on natural compounds as drug candidates targeting carriers, channels, receptors, and enzymes.
In particular, we invite scientists focused on organic chemistry, medicinal chemistry, food chemistry, chemical biology, and biotechnology to report studies of synthetic and natural compounds ranging from the design and synthesis to their pharmacological evaluation in vivo or in vitro and computational modeling.
We very much look forward to your contributions.
Dr. Annalisa De Palma
Dr. Anna Spagnoletta
Prof. Dr. Giovanni Lentini
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- carrier
- channel
- receptor
- enzyme
- drug design
- synthesis
- biological evaluation
- inhibitors
- bioactive compounds
- cell metabolism
- mitochondria
- human pathology
