Objective
Inhibitors of the Ras farnesyl transferase (FTPase) enzyme have recently been shown to possess great potential as anti-cancer agents, particularly for colon and pancreatic carcinomas. Members of the manumycin family of aminoepoxycyclohexenone antibiotics act as potent and selective inhibitors of FTPase but these complex natural products seem to be too inaccessible and unstable to be useful chemotherapeutic agents. However, there is good evidence that synthetic aminoepoxycyclohexenones could be designed with the necessary stability and accessibility, while retaining the desirable biological properties. No synthetic approaches to manumycin analogues have been reported but preliminary studies in York have developed suitable methodology. The overall aim of this proposal is to extend this chemistry, and to develop chiral modifications, in order to prepare the natural products, and simplified analogues, for biological screening. Novel chemistry includes organometallic coupling reactions, the use of chiral acetals and Lewvis acids, and the stereocontrolled synthesis of complex polyenes.
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- medical and health sciences basic medicine pharmacology and pharmacy pharmaceutical drugs antibiotics
- medical and health sciences clinical medicine oncology
- natural sciences biological sciences biochemistry biomolecules proteins enzymes
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YO1 5DD YORK
United Kingdom
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