funded by research grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grants No.82122017,81870642,81970780,81670835,and 81700819);Science and Technology Innovation Action Plan of Shanghai Science and Technology Commission(Grants No.19441900700 and 21S31904900);Clinical Science and Technology Innovation Project of Shanghai Shenkang Hospital Development Center(Grants No.SHDC12019X08 and SHDC2020CR4078)。
Background:To evaluate the effect of lanosterol on cataractous lens of cynomolgus monkeys using a subconjunctival drug release system.Methods:Nine elder cynomolgus monkeys were used,consisting of three monkeys without...
supported by Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.81870641)(No.82070939);Key Research and Development Project of Zhejiang Province,China(2020C03035).
Background:Cataract is the world's leading eye disease that causes blindness.The prevalence of cataract aged 40 years and older is approximately 11.8%–18.8%.Currently,surgery is the only way to treat cataracts.Main T...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.20772153);by Shanghai Leading Academic Discipline Project(No.B906).
A series of 1-(1H-1,2,4-triazole-1-yl)-2-(2,4-difluoropheny1)-3-(N-isoproy1-N-substituted-amino)-2-propanols have been designed and synthesized on the basis of the active site of lanosterol 14a-demethylase (CY...
Novel chiral tetralin compounds were designed and synthesized, and their antifungal activities in vitro were tested. The results showed that all of target compounds had potent antifungal activities, and were stronger ...
Supported by Natural Science Foundation of the Education Department of Jiangsu Province (No. 05KJA36012), and Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK2006034)
Lanosterol and ergosterol are the active principles with potential pharmacological activities in Inonotus obliquus. However, the two sterols are less accumulated in cultured mycelia of the fungus. In this study, diffe...
Based on the active site of Candida albicans lanosterol 14α-demethylase (CACYP51), novel triazole compounds structurally different from the current triazole drugs were designed and synthesized. In vitro antifungal ac...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.30572257)
Novel tetralin compounds were designed and synthesized on the three-dimensional model of lanosterol 14α-demethylase of Candida albicans. All of the lead compounds exhibited potent antifungal activities, especially co...
The crystal structure of 14alpha-sterol demethylase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MT_14DM) provides a good template for modeling the three dimensional structure of lanosterol 14alpha-demethylase, which is the targe...
Syntheses of 3 ketolanosterol, 3 acetolanosterol, 3 oximolanosterol, 3α and 3β aminolanosterol were described The products have been fully characterized on the basis of their chromatographic (TLC R f, GLC R...