title: A mini review on pyridoacridines: Prospective lead compounds in medicinal chemistry.
abstract: Natural products are increasingly being considered "critical and important" in drug discovery paradigms as a number of them such as camptothecin, penicillin, and vincristine serve as "lead molecules" for the discovery of potent compounds of therapeutic interests namely irinotecan, penicillin G, vinblastine respectively. Derived compounds of pharmacological interests displayed a wide variety of activity viz. anticancer, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, anti-protozoal, etc.; when modifications or derivatizations are performed on a parent moiety representing the corresponding derivatives. Pyridoacridine is such a moiety which forms the basic structure of numerous medicinally important natural products such as, but not limited to, amphimedine, ascididemin, eilatin, and sampangine. Interestingly, synthetic analogues of natural pyridoacridine exhibit diverse pharmacological activities and in view of these, natural pyridoacridines can be considered as "lead compounds". This review additionally provides a brief but critical account of inherent structure activity relationships among various subclasses of pyridoacridines. Furthermore, the current aspects and future prospects of natural pyridoacridines are detailed for further reference and consideration.
authors: Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra 136119, Haryana, India.
authors: Vikas
authors: V
authors: Sharma
authors: Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra 136119, Haryana, India.
authors: Prabodh C
authors: PC
authors: Sharma
authors: Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra 136119, Haryana, India ; Department of Pharmacy, School of Chemical Sciences and Pharmacy, Central University of Rajasthan, Ajmer 305801, Rajasthan, India.
authors: Vipin
authors: V
authors: Kumar
keywords: Amphimedine; Analogue; Ascididemin; Lead compound; Natural; Pyridoacridine