The methylation effect in medicinal chemistry

EJ Barreiro, AE Kümmerle, CAM Fraga - Chemical reviews, 2011 - ACS Publications
The monovalent methyl group is derived from methane through the removal of a hydrogen
atom, 1 and its etymology is directly related to the discovery of methanol. 2 The first reports …

Pharmaceutical residues in environmental waters and wastewater: current state of knowledge and future research

D Fatta-Kassinos, S Meric, A Nikolaou - Analytical and bioanalytical …, 2011 - Springer
Pollution from pharmaceuticals in the aquatic environment is now recognized as an
environmental concern in many countries. This has led to the creation of an extensive area …

Antibacterial activity and mechanism of plant flavonoids to gram-positive bacteria predicted from their lipophilicities

G Yuan, Y Guan, H Yi, S Lai, Y Sun, S Cao - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Antimicrobial resistance seriously threatened human health, and new antimicrobial agents
are desperately needed. As one of the largest classes of plant secondary metabolite …

Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) biosensors in pharmaceutical analysis

A Olaru, C Bala, N Jaffrezic-Renault… - Critical reviews in …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
This review aims to highlight the applications of one of the most prominent optical biosensor
technologies, surface plasmon resonance (SPR), in the drug discovery process and quality …

Bioaccumulation of perfluorinated alkyl acids: observations and models

CA Ng, K Hungerbühler - Environmental science & technology, 2014 - ACS Publications
In this review, we consider the two prevailing hypotheses for the mechanisms that control the
bioaccumulation of perfluorinated alkyl acids (PFAAs). The first assumes that partitioning to …

Lipophilicity and its relationship with passive drug permeation

X Liu, B Testa, A Fahr - Pharmaceutical research, 2011 - Springer
In this review, we first summarize the structure and properties of biological membranes and
the routes of passive drug transfer through physiological barriers. Lipophilicity is then …

Permeability barriers of Gram‐negative pathogens

HI Zgurskaya, VV Rybenkov - … of the New York Academy of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Most clinical antibiotics do not have efficacy against Gram‐negative pathogens, mainly
because these cells are protected by the permeability barrier comprising the two …

Conformational flexibility, internal hydrogen bonding, and passive membrane permeability: successful in silico prediction of the relative permeabilities of cyclic …

T Rezai, JE Bock, MV Zhou… - Journal of the …, 2006 - ACS Publications
We report an atomistic physical model for the passive membrane permeability of cyclic
peptides. The computational modeling was performed in advance of the experiments and …

Carrier-mediated cellular uptake of pharmaceutical drugs: an exception or the rule?

PD Dobson, DB Kell - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2008 - nature.com
It is generally thought that many drug molecules are transported across biological
membranes via passive diffusion at a rate related to their lipophilicity. However, the types of …

Role of Caco‐2 cell monolayers in prediction of intestinal drug absorption

P Shah, V Jogani, T Bagchi, A Misra - Biotechnology progress, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
The usefulness of Caco‐2 cell monolayers in determining the intestinal drug absorption of
potential drug candidates as such and from delivery systems, elucidating the underlying …