Recent Research Publications (total of 165):

 

 

    

 

 

l      "Total Synthesis of Potent Antitumor Agent (-)-Lasonolide A: a Cycloaddition-based Strategy" Arun Ghosh and Gangli Gong, Chem. Asian J. 2008, ASAP.

 

l      "Enantioselective Total Synthesis of (+)-Largazole, a Potent Inhibitor of Histone Deacetylase" Arun K. Ghosh, Sarang Kulkarni, Org. Lett. 2008, ASAP.

 

l      "Effect of Flap Mutations on Structure of HIV-1 Protease and Inhibition by Saquinavir and Darunavir" Fengling Liu, Andrey Y. Kovalevsky, Yunfeng Tie, Arun K. Ghosh, Robert W. Harrison, Irene T. Weber, J. Mol. Biol. 2008, 381, 102-115.   

 

l      “Beta-Secretase as a Therapeutic Target for Alzheimer’s Disease” Arun K. Ghosh, Sandra Gemma, Jordan Tang, Neurotherapeutics, 2008, 5, 399-408.

 

l      “Potent HIV-1 Protease Inhibitors Incorporating meso-Bicyclic Urethanes as P2-ligands: Structure-Based Design, Synthesis, Biological Evaluation and Protein-Ligand X-Ray StudiesArun K. Ghosh, Sandra Gemma, Jun Takayama, Abigail Baldridge, Sofiya Leshchenko-Yashchuk, Heather B Miller, Yuan-Fang Wang, Andrey Yu. Kovalevsky, Yashiro Koh, Irene T. Weber, and Hiroaki Mitsuya, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2008, in Press.

 

l      "Asymmetric multi-component reactions: convenient access to acyclic stereocenters and functionalized cyclopentenoids" Arun K. Ghosh, Sarang S. Kulkarni, Chun-Xiao Xu, Khriesto Shurrush, Tet. Asy. 2008, 19, 1020-1026.

 

l      “Enantioselective Synthesis of Cyclopentyltetrahydrofuran (Cp-THF), an Important High-Affinity P2-Ligand for HIV-1 Protease Inhibitors” Arun K. Ghosh and Jun Takayama, Tet. Lett. 2008, 49, 3409-3412.  

 

l      “Memapsin 2 (beta-secretase) inhibitors: drug development.” A. K. Ghosh, N. Kumaragurubaran, L. Hong, G. Koelsh, J. Tang.  Curr. Alz. Res.  2008, 5, 121.

 

l      "Design of HIV Protease Inhibitors Targeting Protein Backbone: An Effective Strategy for Combating Drug Resistance" Arun Ghosh, Bruno Chapsal, Irene Weber, Hiroaki Mitsuya, Acc. Chem. Res. 2008, 41, 78-86.

 

l      "Enantioselective total synthesis of Peloruside A, a potent Microtubule Stabilizer" Arun Ghosh, Xiaoming Xu, Jae-Hun Kim, Chun-Xiao Xu, Org. Lett. 2008, 10, 1001.

 

l      "Potent memapsin 2 (beta-secretase) inhibitors: Design, synthesis, protein-ligand X-ray structure, and in vivo evaluation" Arun K. Ghosh, Nagaswamy Kumaragurubaran, Lin Hong, Sarang Kulkarni, Xiaoming Xu, Heather B Miller, Dandepally S Reddy, Vajira Weerasena, Robert Turner, Wanpin Chang, Gerald Koelsch, and Jordan Tang. Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 2008, 18, 1031-1036.

 

l      “Development of Protease Inhibitors and the Fight with Drug-Resistant HIV-1 Variants” Hiroaki Mitsuya, Kenji Maeda, Debananda Das, and Arun K. Ghosh. Advances in Pharmacology, 2007, 56, 169-197.

 

l      “Darunavir, a Conceptually New HIV-1 Protease Inhibitor for the Treatment of Drug-resistant HIV  A. K. Ghosh, Z. L. Dawson, H. Mitsuya.  Bioorg. Med. Chem.  2007, 15, 7576.

 

l      “Potent Inhibition of HIV-1 Replication by Novel Non-peptidyl Small Molecule Inhibitors of Protease Dimerization” Y. Koh, S. Matsumi, D. Das, M. Amano, D. A. Davis, J. Li, S. Leschenko, A. Baldridge, T. Shioda, R. Yarchoan, A. K. Ghosh, H. Mitsuya J. Biol. Chem.  2007, 282, 28709.

 

l      “Structure-based design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of peptidomimetic SARS-CoV 3CLpro inhibitors” A. K. Ghosh, K. Xi, V. Grum-Tokars, X. Xu, K. Ratia, W. Fu, K. V. Houser, S. C. Baker, M. E. Johnson, A. D. Mesecar. Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett.  2007, 17, 5876.

 

l      "Enantioselective Synthesis of (-)-Platensimycin Oxatetracyclic Core using an Intramolecular Diels Alder Reaction" Ghosh, Arun K. and  Xi, Kai, Org. Lett., 2007, 9, 4013.

 

l      “Potent New Antiviral Compound Shows Similar inhibition and Structural Interactions with Drug Resistant Mutants and Wild Type HIV-1 Protease"  Yuan-Fang Wang, Yunfeng Tie, Peter I. Boross, Jozsef Tozser, Arun K. Ghosh, Robert W. Harrison, and Irene T. Weber, J. Med. Chem. 2007, 50, 4509.

 

l  "Memapsin 2 (Beta-Secretase) Inhibitor Drug, between Fantasy and Reality" Arun K. Ghosh, Geoffrey Bilcer, Lin Hong, Gerald Koelsch and Jordan Tang, Curr. Alz. Res., 2007, 4, 418.

 

l  "A Novel Bis-Tetrahydrofuranylurethane-Containing Nonpeptidic Protease Inhibitor (PI), GRL-98065, Is Potent against Multiple-PI-Resistant Human Immunodeficiency Virus in Vitro"  Masayuki Amano, Yasuhiro Koh, Debananda Das, Jianfeng Li, Sofiya Leschenko, Yuan-Fang Wang, Peter I. Boross, Irene T. Weber, Arun K. Ghosh, and Hiroaki Mitsuya, Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 2007, 51, 2143.

 

l "Design, Synthesis and X-ray Structure of Potent Memapsin 2 (b-Secretase) Inhibitors with Functionalized Aromatic derivatives as the P2-P3-Ligands" A. K. Ghosh, N. Kumaragurubaran, L. Hong, S. Kukarni, X. Xu, W. Chang, V. Weerasena, R. Turner, G. Koelsch, G. Bilcer, J. Tang.  J. Med. Chem. 2007, 50, 2399.

 

l   "Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Antitumor Macrolide Lasonolide A" A. K. Ghosh and G. Gong. Organic Letters 2007, 9, 1437.

 

l   "Atomic Resolution crystal Structures of HIV-1 Protease and MutantsV82A and I84V with Saquinavir" Yunfeng Tie, Andrey Y. Kovalevsky, Peter Boross, Yuan-Fang Wang, Arun K. Ghosh, Jozsef Tozser, Robert W. Harrison, Irene T. Weber. Proteins 2007, 67, 232-242.

 

 

 

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