Exam 3 Flashcards
The first molecule with the desired pharmacological activity is the …
Lead compound
Testing the purification of active compounds from plants, microbes, and animals is known as
Natural sources
The scientific study of ethnic groups, physical habits, and how they use medicinal planes
Ethnopharmacology
Testing a variety of compounds using a bioassay
Screening
Libraries of all compounds on hand
Random libraries
Synthetic libraries made up of only drug like molecules
Directed libraries
Using a computer modeling program go test compounds in computer for ability to fit in a binding cavity or for 3D similarity to natural ligand
In Silico Library
Identify target molecule
Design high potency enzyme inhibitors based in substrate, products, and reaction mechanism
Rational drug design
Special type of drug design where 3D structure of the target is used to direct the synthesis of new compounds
Structure based design
What is the goal of lead modification
Make lead compound fit it’s target better increasing its potency and specificity
SAR: understand the relationship between each drugs _________ and it’s ________
Structure and activity
3D arrangement of atoms that is responsible for the drugs activity
Pharmacophore
3D arrangement of atoms that is responsible for the metabolic properties
Metabophore
3D arrangement of atoms responsible for toxicity-eliciting interactions
Toxicophore
Simplification makes the compound easier to synthesize and tells us which groups are _______ which are ______
Needed and not needed
Deletion studies identify the ___________ which is the portion of a molecule containing essential functional group that directly interact with the target
Pharmacophore
The pharmacophore included the _______________ of those critical functional groups
3D arrangement
Inserting a methylene group between two parts of a drug molecule is called
Homologation
Adding a branch point can have what kind of effects on the drugs activity
It can increase or decrease its activity
In ring chain transformations atoms can rotate freely around carbon-carbon _______ bonds and this free rotation will often produce different ___________
Single
Conformations
Introduction of rings restricts the shape of a molecule making it more ________ sometimes increasing the molecules potency or making it more specific
Rigid
Breaking rings or removing them will slow a molecule to be more _________ this molecules might be able to alter its shape and fit more receptors but it also might produce more side effects
Flexible
Converting single bonds to double bonds will after geometry and may ______ the molecule
Rigidify
Bioisosteres are functional groups that possess almost equal _____________ and _____________
Molecular shapes and volumes
Similar distribution of electrons
Hydrogens are the same size as what
Fluorine
Methyl is the same size as what
Chlorine
The more polar and charged the molecule the ______ well absorbed
Less
More lipophilic to point of non-dissociation is ______ absorbed
Less
Reducing the number of charged groups on a drug decreases it’s water solubility however this conversion is only _________
Temporary (will cleave back to normal molecule)
A hERG pharmacophore has a lipophilic base that has a ________ _______
Tertiary amine (2-5 atom chain that includes rings, hetero atoms or polar groups)
Excretion ____________ removes drug from the body. The major excretory organ is the ______
Physically
Kidney
What drugs are excreted often without needed major metabolism
Polar and ionized drugs
Lipophilic drugs are largely _____________ back into systemic circulation during passage through renal tubules
Reabsorbed (require modification to make them more polar)
The metabolism of lipophilic drugs into more _________ metabolites is essential for the elimination of these compounds from the body
Hydrophilic
Phase 1 metabolism: polar functional groups are
Introduced into the molecule or modified by reactions
Phase II modification (conjugation)
Attaching small, polar, and ionizable endogenous molecules to phase I metabolite or parent drug