Joyant Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Cumbre Pharmaceuticals Inc.

The University of Texas System

Cumbre IP Ventures, L.p.

Susan Harran

Gunnar J Hanson

Yong He

Ming Zhou

Charles G Caldwell

Qi Wei

Zhenkun Ma

Lai Wang

Charles Z Ding

Jing Li

Yafei Jin

In Ho Kim

Keith P Minor

Jamie C Longgood

Patrick G Harran

Xiaoming Xu

Keith D Combrink

Nizal Chandrakumar

David Thomas

Haizhou Sun

Daniel Denton

Timothy W Morris

Jamie Carol Longgood

Diazonamide analogs having anti-mitotic activity, useful for the treatment of cancer and other proliferative disorders, and related pharmaceutical compositions are provided.

Diazonamide analogs

The invention provides small molecule mimics of the Smac peptide that are dimer- or dimer-like compounds having two amide-containing domains connected by a linker. These compounds are useful to promote apoptosis. The invention includes pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds and methods to use them to treat conditions including cancer and autoimmune disorders.

Small molecule apoptosis promoters

The invention provides small molecule mimics of the Smac peptide that are dimers or dimer-like compounds having two binding domains connected by a linker. These compounds are useful to promote apoptosis. The invention includes pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds and methods to use them to treat conditions including cancer and autoimmune disorders.

Dimeric Smac mimetics

Indoline compounds having anti-mitotic activity, useful for the treatment of cancer and other proliferative disorders are provided.

Indoline anti-cancer agents

This invention relates to novel macrocyclic lactams intermediates useful for the preparation of diazonamide analogs. This invention also relates to a novel electrochemical oxidative cyclization for the preparation of such macrocyclic lactams, and their further elucidation to provide diazonamide analogs.

Methods for preparing diazonamides

Dimeric pyrrolidine amide-containing small molecule apoptosis promoters

Compounds of the current invention relate to rifamycin derivatives having antimicrobial activities, including activities against drug-resistant microorganisms. More specifically, compounds of the current invention relate to C-25 carbamate derivatives of rifamycin having another functional group or pharmacophore covalently attached to this position through a carbamate linkage. The resulting compounds exert their antimicrobial activity through a dual-function mechanism and therefore exhibit reduced frequency of resistance.

C-25 carbamate rifamycin derivatives with activity against drug-resistant microbes

Rifamycin derivatives having antimicrobial activities, including activities against drug-resistant microorganisms are claimed in this invention. The inventive rifamycin derivatives are uniquely designed in that they have a rifamycin moiety covalently linked to a linker group through the C-3 carbon of the rifamycin moiety and the linker is, in turn covalently linked to a therapeutic moiety or antibacterial agent/pharmacophore. The therapeutic moiety can be a quinolone, an oxazolidinone, a macrolide, an aminoglycoside, a tetracycline core or a structure/pharmacophore associated with an antibacterial agent.

Rifamycin derivatives effective against drug-resistant microbes

The present invention relates to rifamycin 3-iminomethylenyl (&#x2014;CH&#x2550;N&#x2014;) derivatives having antimicrobial activities, including activities against drug-resistant microorganisms. The claimed rifamycin derivative has a rifamycin moiety covalently linked to a linker through an iminomethylenyl (&#x2014;CH&#x2550;N&#x2014;) group at the C-3 carbon of the rifamycin moiety and the linker is, in turn, covalently linked to a quinolone structure or its pharmacophore within the DNA gyrase and topoisomerase IV inhibitor family. The inventive rifamycins are novel and exhibit activity against both rifampin and ciprofloxacin-resistant microorganisms.

Rifamycin imino derivatives effective against drug-resistant microbes

Novel rifamycin derivatives of formula I (both hydroquinone and corresponding quinone (C-C) forms): or their salts, hydrates or prodrugs thereof,wherein: a preferred R comprises hydrogen, acetyl; L is a linker, a preferred linker group elements selected from any combination of 1 to 5 groups shown FIG., provided L is not wherein Ris H, methyl or alkyl. The inventive compounds exhibit valuable antibiotic properties. Formulations having these compounds can be used in the control or prevention of infectious diseases in mammals, both humans and non-humans. In particular, the compounds exhibit a pronounced antibacterial activity, even against multiresistant strains of microbes.

Rifamycin derivatives

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