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Simplistic perylene-related compounds as inhibitors of tick-borne encephalitis virus reproduction
Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 2020. Vol. 30. No. 10. Article 127100.
Slesarchuk N., Khvatov E., Chistov A., Proskurin G., Nikitin T., Lazarevich A., Ulanovskaya A., Ulashchik E., Orlov A., Jegorov A., Ustinov A., Tyurin Anton P., Shmanai V., Ishmukhametov A., Korshun V. A., Osolodkin D., Kozlovskaya L., Aralov A.
Rigid amphipathic fusion inhibitors are potent broad-spectrum antivirals based on the perylene scaffold, usually decorated with a hydrophylic group linked via ethynyl or triazole. We have sequentially simplified these structures by removing sugar moiety, then converting uridine to aniline, then moving to perylenylthiophenecarboxilic acids and to perylenylcarboxylic acid. All these polyaromatic compounds, as well as antibiotic heliomycin, still showed pronounced activity against tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) with limited toxicity in porcine embryo kidney (PEK) cell line. 5-(Perylen-3-yl)-2-thiophenecarboxylic acid (5a) showed the highest antiviral activity with 50% effective concentration of approx. 1.6 nM.
Gureev M., Advanced Science 2026 P. 1–13
Targeted protein degradation represents a promising therapeutic strategy, yet its broader application is often limited by the scarcity of usable E3 ligases. Glutathione peroxidase 4 (GPX4) is a key target for inducing ferroptosis, but achieving sustained and potent inhibition remains challenging with conventional enzymatic inhibitors. Herein, we report the first small‐molecule GPX4 degraders that incorporate ...
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Budkov Y., Kiselev M. G., Journal of Chemical Physics 2026 Vol. 165 No. 12 Article 124508
We develop a three-mode statistical-mechanical theory for a two-conformer
solute in a near-critical solvent. A compressible lattice model with
vacancies yields the Gaussian free-energy functional for a critical conserved
density, an orthogonal noncritical conserved mode, and the local conformer
fraction. Their couplings follow from packing and cohesive interactions,
rather than being introduced phenomenologically. Kawasaki transport of the
two conserved fields and ...
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Yurova P., Stenina I., Yaroslavtsev A. B., Membranes and Membrane Technologies 2026 Vol. 8 No. 1 P. 1–8
In this work, the effect of applying layers of polyethyleneimines with different molecular weights
(1300 and 25000 Da), polystyrene sulfonic acid or sodium polyacrylate on the surface of the heterogeneous
membrane MK-40 on the selectivity to singly charged ions was investigated. It is shown that the modification
leads to an increase in the selectivity coefficients P(Na+/Ca2+) and P(Li+/Mg2+), ...
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Diachkova E., Nikulin D., Кубкин Я. В. et al., American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 2026 Vol. 212
Accurate classification of a patient with pulmonary hypertension (PH) into one of five groups is fundamental for appropriate disease management strategies. The time from disease onset to correct diagnosis is unacceptably long in many cases. Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) develops as a consequence of venous thromboemboli, resulting in a more pronounced hereditary predisposition to ...
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Xu Y., Ryabov F., Alexandrov I. et al., USA 2026 Vol. 6 No. 8 Article 101324
Центромеры обеспечивают расхождение хромосом, однако организацию их хроматина в пределах повторяющейся альфа-сателлитной ДНК долгое время было трудно изучать. Для решения этой задачи мы создали гаплотип-разрешённые аннотации сателлитной ДНК для полной диплоидной сборки генома человека T2T-HG002. Затем с помощью метода направленного метилирования с секвенированием длинных прочтений (DiMeLo-seq) мы картировали центромерный белок A (CENP-A), модификацию H3K9me3 и ...
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Hebbar P., Ryabov F., Alexandrov I. et al., Cell 2026 Vol. 189 P. 4891–4908.e12
The common marmoset is a New World monkey widely used to study primate evolution and human disease. We present a telomere-to-telomere (T2T) reference assembly for the species, plus three near-T2T haplotypes. These resolve previously inaccessible regions, including the centromeres, sex chromosomes, subterminal satellites, acrocentric chromosomes, and the major histocompatibility complex (MHC). We find marmoset centromeres ...
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Budkov Y., Journal of Chemical Physics 2026 Vol. 165 No. 12 Article 124105
Exact theories of electrolyte structure must satisfy the nonlocal constraints imposed by electrostatic screening, yet these constraints are most commonly formulated only for homogeneous bulk systems and at the level of two-point correlations. Here, we develop a unified field-theoretic framework that extends them to general inhomogeneous ionic fluids and nonlinear charge correlations. Using a standard ...
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sobov P., Yakushev I., Shestakov A. et al., Organometallics 2025 Vol. 44 No. 24 P. 2873–2881
Interaction of {Cryptand(K+)}(C60•–) with CpCo(CO)2 yields the air-sensitive crystalline salt {Cryptand(K+)}{CpCo(CO)-η2-C60•–} (1), in which C60•– replaces carbonyl group in CpCo(CO)2. Two Co–C bonds of 2.028(9) and 2.057(8)Å are formed. The magnetic moment of 1 is 1.72 μB, indicating a doublet S = 1/2 spin state of {CpCo(CO)-η2-C60•–} at 300 K. The compound shows a broad ...
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Shaitan A., Ke Y., Shutao C. et al., 2026 No. 24 Article 181
Background Therapeutic peptides exert pivotal effects in diverse biological processes, and have attracted significant interest in the field of biomedicine in recent years. However, most existing methods often fail to adequately capture the intricate interactions among amino acid residues and the contextual dependencies within peptide sequences, which hampers the extraction of deep semantic representations and ...
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Anton Rogachev, Sysoeva O., Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience 2025 Vol. 19 Article 1658243
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Rogachev A.O., Sysoeva O. V., Cognitive Systems Research 2024 Vol. 86 Article 101236
Receptive speech is the ability to understand speech addressed to a person. It is a crucial process for a child’s cognitive development. We examine the relationship between receptive speech and neural tracking of natural speech in 52 children aged 3–8 years to infer the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying speech development. We registered a 32-channel electroencephalogram (EEG) ...
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Poddiakov A., / Series Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2026. No. 7437658.
Clarity of knowledge and reasoning is necessary in many cases. Yet vagueness in scientific thinking related to surprise, curiosity, "ability to engage with not-knowing" (de Freitas) and abductive reasoning is also a crucially important source of scientific creativity which supplements combinatorial logic when dealing with the already known. Starting from studies by C. S. Peirce ...
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Water confined in heterogeneous clay–quartz pores: Structure and dynamics from atomistic simulations
Glushak A., Tararushkin E., Smirnov G., Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects 2027 Vol. 752 Article 141756
The molecular-scale behavior of water in heterogeneous clay–quartz systems is critical for understanding cementation processes in natural soils and compacted bentonite, which is crucial for oil recovery and nuclear waste disposal barriers construction. Here we investigate how heterogeneity of mixed Na-montmorillonite and α-quartz surfaces affect water structure and dynamics in nanopores of 2.5 to 60 Å ...
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Kolin N., Nazarov D., Krivenko K. et al., Dyes and Pigments 2026 Vol. 254 Article 113957
Interaction of thioindigo dianions with metal phthalocyanines, MPc, where M = MgII, MnII, AlIIICl and SiIVCl2, in the presence of cryptand[2.2.2] produces anionic and neutral complexes: {Crypt(K+)}2{(trans-thioindigo2−)⋅(MgIIPc)2}2−⋅2C6H4Cl2 (1); {Crypt(Cs+)}2{(trans-thioindigo2−)⋅(MnIIPc)2}2− (2), {Crypt(K+)}{(cis-Hthioindigo−)2⋅(AlIIIPc)}− (3) and {(cis-Hthioindigo−)2⋅(SiIVPc)} (4). Bidentate thioindigo2− ligand forms symmetric binuclear dimers in 1 and 2 with short M-O(thioindigo2−) bonds of 1.899(2) and 1.984(6) Å length for ...
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Faraonov M., Romanenko N., Ivanov T. et al., Dalton Transactions 2026 Vol. 55 No. 24 P. 9428–9438
Doubly reduced phthalocyanine complexes remain largely unexplored despite their potential relevance for molecular spin-based applications. Herein, we report the synthesis of a series of crystalline complexes, {cryptand(Cs + )} 2 [M(Pc) 4– ] 2–. ...
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Mikhailenko M., Astakhova T., Timokhina E. N. et al., Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers 2026 Vol. 13 No. 14 P. 6145–6156
series of anionic bi- and trinuclear complexes of Co II , Fe II , and Mn II with hexaazatrinaphthylene (HATNA) and hexaazatriphenylenehexacarbonitrile (HAT(CN) 6 ), incorporating paramagnetic Cp* 2 Fe + cations ( S = 1/2), were obtained and investigated. ...
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Yin C., Fedorov A., Guo H. et al., Nature 2025 Vol. 648 No. 8094 P. 707–716
Herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) and influenza A viruses (IAV) induce Z-form-nucleic-acid-binding protein 1 (ZBP1)-initiated cell death1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8. ZBP1 is activated by Z-RNA1,7,9, and the Z-RNAs that trigger ZBP1 during HSV-1 and IAV infections were assumed to be of viral origin1. Here, however, we show that host cell-encoded Z-RNAs are major and sufficient ZBP1-activating ligands after ...
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Khramchikhin A. V., Skryl’nikova M. A., Maxim A. Gureev et al., Molecules 2023 Vol. 28 No. 21 Article 7427
A novel method for synthesizing 1,2,4-triazole- and tetrazole-containing 4H-thiopyrano[2,3-b]quinolines using a new combination of the thio-Michael and aza-Morita–Baylis–Hillman reactions was developed. Target compounds were evaluated for their cytotoxicities and antiviral activities against influenza A/Puerto Rico/8/34 virus in MDCK cells. The compounds showed low toxicity, and some exhibited moderate antiviral activity. Molecular docking identified the M2 ...
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Sukhorukov G., Paramonov A., Lisak O. et al., PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 2023 Vol. 17 No. 3 Article e0011141
Tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) is a flavivirus which causes an acute or sometimes chronic infection that frequently has severe neurological consequences, and is a major public health threat in Eurasia. TBEV is genetically classified into three distinct subtypes; however, at least one group of isolates, the Baikal subtype, also referred to as "886-84-like", challenges this ...
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Алов И. Н., Байдуж М. И., Goncharov R. et al., Смоленск: Универсум, 2022.
Данна книга является пионерным исследованием, описывающим распространение Covid-19 в регионах России. Коллектив авторов исследует этот феномен в глобальном (на фоне мирового опыта распространения и борьбы с пандемией), региональном и муниципальном аспектах, разбирая особенности каждой из трех волн пандемии. Для обеспечения достоверности выводов использован широкий круг статистической, нормативной, правовой и медийной информации. Результаты исследования, выполненные по гранту РФФИ ...
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Zhdanova K. A., Savelyeva I. O., Ezhov A. V. et al., Pharmaceuticals 2021 Vol. 14 No. 3 Article 242
This work is devoted to the search for new antiherpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) drugs among synthetic tetrapyrroles and to an investigation of their antiviral properties under nonphoto-dynamic conditions. In this study, novel amphiphilic 5,10,15,20-tetrakis(4-(3-pyridyl-n-propa-noyl)oxyphenyl)porphyrin tetrabromide (3a), 5,10,15,20-tetrakis(4-(6-pyridyl-n-hexanoyl)oxy-phenyl)porphyrin tetrabromide (3b) and known 5,10,15,20-tetrakis(1-methyl-4-pyridinio)porphy-rin tetraiodide (TMePyP) were synthesized, and their dark antiviral activity in vitro ...
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Bordachev T., Россия в глобальной политике 2020
Мировой пандемический кризис стал долгожданным событием международной политики. Именно поэтому его политическое воздействие многократно превосходит реальную опасность коронавируса для людей. Странность происходящих событий очевидна уже для самого неподготовленного наблюдателя. Ведущие государства мира, малые и средние игроки, уже давно испытывали запрос на событие, которое позволило бы приступить к решающей стадии ревизии порядков, утвердившихся по итогам холодной ...
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Vladimir A. Korshun, RSC advances 2019 Vol. 9 No. 45 P. 26014–26023
The propargylamide of N3-Pom-protected 5-(perylen-3-ylethynyl)uracil acetic acid, a universal precursor, was used in a CuAAC click reaction for the synthesis of several derivatives, including three ramified molecules with high activities against tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV). Pentaerythritol-based polyazides were used for the assembly of molecules containing 2/4 antiviral 5-(perylen-3-ylethynyl) uracil scaffolds, the first examples of polyvalent perylene antivirals. Cluster compounds ...
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Vladimir A. Korshun, European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 2019 Vol. 171 P. 93–103
Rigid amphipathic fusion inhibitors (RAFIs) are potent antivirals based on a perylene core linked with a
nucleoside moiety. Sugar-free analogues of RAFIs, 5-(perylen-3-ylethynyl)uracil-1-acetic acid 1 and its
amides 2, were synthesized using combined protection group strategy. Compounds 1 and 2 appeared to
have low toxicity on porcine embryo kidney (PEK) or rhabdomiosarcoma (RD) cells together with
remarkable activity against ...
Added: November 8, 2019