| Literature DB >> 24997686 |
Gabrielle N Winston-McPherson1, Dongxu Shu2, Weiping Tang3.
Abstract
Recent studies suggest that arylhydrocarbon receptor (AhR) may be a target for a number of diseases. Natural product malassezin is a AhR agonist with an interesting 2,3'-diindolylmethane skeleton. We have prepared a series of analogues of natural product malassezin using our recently developed method and tested the activity of these analogues against AhR in a cell-based assay. We found that a methyl substituent at 1'-N can significantly increase the activity and the 2-formyl group is not critical for some diindolylmethanes.Entities:
Keywords: Agonist; AhR; Diindolylmethane; Indole; Transcription factor
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Year: 2014 PMID: 24997686 PMCID: PMC4130779 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2014.06.009
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Bioorg Med Chem Lett ISSN: 0960-894X Impact factor: 2.823