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ArticleNature chemistry2024

A divergent intermediate strategy yields biologically diverse pseudo-natural products.

Sukdev Bag, Jie Liu, Sohan Patil, Jana Bonowski, Sandra Koska, Beate Schölermann, Ruirui Zhang, Lin Wang, Axel Pahl, Sonja Sievers and 5 more

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Article in Nature chemistry, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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  1. ChemBioParis 2025: Approaching Biology Through Chemistry in the City of Light.Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology · 2026
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  5. An Indole Dearomatization Strategy for the Synthesis of Pseudo-Natural Products.Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology · 2025
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15 authors.

Sukdev BagDepartment of Chemical Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3280-8816
Jie LiuDepartment of Chemical Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-9455-325X
Sohan PatilDepartment of Chemical Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany.
Jana BonowskiDepartment of Chemical Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany.
Sandra KoskaDepartment of Chemical Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany.
Beate SchölermannDepartment of Chemical Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany.
Ruirui ZhangDepartment of Chemical Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-9342-2613
Lin WangDepartment of Chemical Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5734-8612
Axel PahlDepartment of Chemical Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany.
Sonja SieversDepartment of Chemical Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0854-4507
Lukas BriegerFaculty of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Inorganic Chemistry, TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany.
Carsten StrohmannFaculty of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Inorganic Chemistry, TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4787-2135
Slava ZieglerDepartment of Chemical Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-4398-7741
Michael GrigalunasDepartment of Chemical Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0419-8168
Herbert WaldmannDepartment of Chemical Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany. herbert.waldmann@mpi-dortmund.mpg.de.ORCID 0000-0002-9606-7247

Funding

Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) 115489
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The efficient exploration of biologically relevant chemical space is essential for the discovery of bioactive compounds. A molecular design principle that possesses both biological relevance and structural diversity may more efficiently lead to compound collections that are enriched in diverse bioactivities. Here the diverse pseudo-natural product (PNP) strategy, which combines the biological relevance of the PNP concept with synthetic diversification strategies from diversity-oriented synthesis, is reported. A diverse PNP collection was synthesized from a common divergent intermediate through developed indole dearomatization methodologies to afford three-dimensional molecular frameworks that could be further diversified via intramolecular coupling and/or carbon monoxide insertion. In total, 154 PNPs were synthesized representing eight different classes. Cheminformatic analyses showed that the PNPs are structurally diverse between classes. Biological investigations revealed the extent of diverse bioactivity enrichment of the collection in which four inhibitors of Hedgehog signalling, DNA synthesis, de novo pyrimidine biosynthesis and tubulin polymerization were identified from four different PNP classes.

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Biological ProductsHedgehog ProteinsHumansIndolesMolecular StructureBiological ProductsHedgehog ProteinsIndoles

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