Molecular Editing

Molecular Editing Reveals a Bilobalide Chemotype that Attenuates Prolyl Endopeptidase (PREP)-Linked Neuroinflammation

Natural products offer privileged three-dimensional chemotypes for drug discovery, yet scaffold lability and limited analogue space often impede mechanism-guided optimization. …

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Molecular editing of bilobalide: Regioselective C-ring lactam formation

Late-stage diversification of complex natural products enables rapid access to analogues for structure-activity relationship studies. Herein, we report a regioselective …

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Lactone-to-lactam editing alters the pharmacology of bilobalide

Precise transformations of natural products (NPs) can fine-tune their physicochemical properties while preserving inherently complex and evolutionarily optimized parent scaffolds. …

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Molecular Editing of Natural Products

Natural products serve as powerful templates for drug development. The biosynthesis of secondary metabolites demands significant energy from the organism, which suggests that these …