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ReviewCurrent medicinal chemistry2017

Major Developments in the Design of Inhibitors along the Kynurenine Pathway.

Kelly R Jacobs, Gloria Castellano-Gonzalez, Gilles J Guillemin, David B Lovejoy

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Review in Current medicinal chemistry, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

36 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. The Influence of Kynurenine Metabolites on Neurodegenerative Pathologies.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Kelly R JacobsNeuroinflammation Group, Department of Biomedical Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney. Australia.
Gloria Castellano-GonzalezNeuroinflammation Group, Department of Biomedical Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney. Australia.
Gilles J GuilleminDepartment of Biomedical Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Macquarie University, 2 Technology Place, Sydney. Australia.
David B LovejoyDepartment of Biomedical Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Macquarie University, 2 Technology Place, Sydney. Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Disrupted kynurenine pathway (KP) metabolism has been implicated in the progression of neurodegenerative disease, psychiatric disorders and cancer. Modulation of enzyme activity along this pathway may therefore offer potential new therapeutic strategies for these conditions. Considering their prominent positions in the KP, the enzymes indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase, kynurenine 3-monooxygenase and kynurenine aminotransferase, appear the most attractive targets. Already, increasing interest in this pathway has led to the identification of a number of potent and selective enzyme inhibitors with promising pre-clinical data and the elucidation of several enzyme crystal structures provides scope to rationalize the molecular mechanisms of inhibitor activity. The field seems poised to yield one or more inhibitors that should find clinical utility.

Indexed as

Drug DesignEnzyme InhibitorsHumansIndoleamine-Pyrrole 2,3,-DioxygenaseKynurenineKynurenine 3-MonooxygenaseTransaminasesEnzyme InhibitorsIndoleamine-Pyrrole 2,3,-DioxygenaseKynurenineKynurenine 3-Monooxygenasekynurenine-oxoglutarate transaminaseTransaminases3-dioxygenasecancerenzyme inhibitorsindoleamine 2kynurenine 3- monooxygenaseKynurenine pathwayneurodegeneration

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PMID28464785
PMCPMC5748880

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