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Maria M. M. Santos

Researcher at University of Lisbon

Publications -  87
Citations -  2146

Maria M. M. Santos is an academic researcher from University of Lisbon. The author has contributed to research in topics: Apoptosis & Cancer. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 81 publications receiving 1801 citations. Previous affiliations of Maria M. M. Santos include Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro & University of Barcelona.

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Synthesis and evaluation of vinyl sulfones as caspase-3 inhibitors. A structure-activity study.

TL;DR: The first structure-activity relationship study of vinyl sulfones as caspase-3 inhibitors is reported in this paper, where a series of 12 vinyl sulfone derivatives were synthesized and evaluated for two downstream caspases (caspases-3 and -7).
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Reactivation of wild-type and mutant p53 by tryptophanolderived oxazoloisoindolinone SLMP53-1, a novel anticancer small-molecule

TL;DR: The identification of the enantiopure tryptophanol-derived oxazoloisoindolinone SLMP53-1 as a novel reactivator of wild-type and mut p53, using a yeast-based screening strategy, represents a promissing starting point for the development of effective p53-reactivating drugs.
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Biogenetically inspired enantioselective approach to Indolo[2,3-a]- and benzo[a]quinolizidine alkaloids from a synthetic equivalent of secologanin.

TL;DR: Racemic oxodiester 1 undergoes stereoselective cyclocondensation with (S)-tryptophanol, (3,4-dimethoxyphenyl)alaninol, or the corresponding amino acids, to give bicyclic lactams, which are cyclized to substituted indolo[2,3-a]- and benzo[a]quinolizidines.
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Design, synthesis and evaluation of 3-methylene-substituted indolinones as antimalarials.

TL;DR: Coupling a 7-chloroquinoline moiety to the 3-methylene-substituted indolinone scaffold led to a significant improvement in antiplasmodial activity.
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Aspartic vinyl sulfones: Inhibitors of a caspase-3-dependent pathway

TL;DR: It is suggested that vinyl sulfones containing Asp at P1 should be considered for further optimization as caspase inhibitors and modulators of casp enzyme-3-dependent pathways.