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Ugo Pradere

Senior Scientist in Pharmaceutical Chemistry, ETH Zurich
Verified email at pharma.ethz.ch
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[HTML][HTML] Synthesis of nucleoside phosphate and phosphonate prodrugs

U Pradere, EC Garnier-Amblard, SJ Coats… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
For many decades, the design of new nucleoside analogs as potential therapeutic agents
focused on both sugar and nucleobase modifications. These nucleoside analogs rely on …

A small-molecule inhibitor of Lin28

M Roos, U Pradère, RP Ngondo, A Behera… - ACS chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
New discoveries in RNA biology underscore a need for chemical tools to clarify their roles in
pathophysiological mechanisms. In certain cancers, synthesis of the let-7 microRNA tumor …

Preparation of ribavirin analogues by copper-and ruthenium-catalyzed azide-alkyne 1, 3-dipolar cycloaddition

U Pradere, V Roy, TR McBrayer, RF Schinazi… - Tetrahedron, 2008 - Elsevier
In this study, we described the synthesis of 1,4- and 1,5-disubstituted-1,2,3-triazolo-nucleosides
from various alkynes with 1′-azido-2′,3′,5′-tri-O-acetylribose using either copper-…

β-d-2′-C-Methyl-2,6-diaminopurine Ribonucleoside Phosphoramidates are Potent and Selective Inhibitors of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) and Are Bioconverted …

…, M Ehteshami, S Amiralaei, U Pradere… - Journal of medicinal …, 2015 - ACS Publications
… -TP and 2′-C-Me-GTP were chain terminators for genotype 1b HCV-pol, and single
nucleotide incorporation assays revealed that 2′-C-Me-DAPN-TP was incorporated opposite U. …

Novel antiviral C5-substituted pyrimidine acyclic nucleoside phosphonates selected as human thymidylate kinase substrates

D Topalis, U Pradere, V Roy, C Caillat… - Journal of medicinal …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Acyclic nucleoside phosphonates (ANPs) are at the cornerstone of DNA virus and retrovirus
therapies. They reach their target, the viral DNA polymerase, after two phosphorylation steps …

Substrate mimicry: HIV-1 reverse transcriptase recognizes 6-modified-3′-azido-2′, 3′-dideoxyguanosine-5′-triphosphates as adenosine analogs

…, M Detorio, A Obikhod, U Pradere… - Nucleic acids …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
β-D-3′-Azido-2′,3′-dideoxyguanosine (3′-azido-ddG) is a potent inhibitor of HIV-1
replication with a superior resistance profile to zidovudine. Recently, we identified five novel 6-…

Critical 23S rRNA interactions for macrolide-dependent ribosome stalling on the ErmCL nascent peptide chain

M Koch, J Willi, U Pradere, J Hall… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
… For cDNA synthesis 1 μl of reverse transcription mixture containing 2 u/μl AMV-RT (Roche,
diluted with PSB (9 mM Mg(OAc) 2 , 5 mM K 3 PO 4 pH 7.3, 95 mM potassium glutamate, 5 …

Synthesis of 5′-Methylene-Phosphonate Furanonucleoside Prodrugs: Application to D-2′-Deoxy-2′-α-fluoro-2′-β-C-methyl Nucleosides

U Pradere, F Amblard, SJ Coats, RF Schinazi - Organic Letters, 2012 - ACS Publications
… were unable to separate the bisPOM-vinylphosphonate nucleosides from excess tetra(POM)-bisphosphonate
5 by flash silica gel column chromatography (except in the case of the U

[HTML][HTML] The solution structure of Dead End bound to AU-rich RNA reveals an unusual mode of tandem RRM-RNA recognition required for mRNA regulation

…, FE Loughlin, C von Schroetter, U Pradère… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
… D U 5 , U 6 , and U 7 binding to the interdomain linker and the RRM2-binding pocket. G 8
binding to the eRRM1 β-hairpin extension. E Cooperative binding by RRM1 and the U 6 and U

[PDF][PDF] Chemical Synthesis of Mono‐and Bis‐Labeled Pre‐MicroRNAs

U Pradère, A Brunschweiger, LFR Gebert… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2013 - drive.google.com
Chemically synthesized single and multi-labeled oligonucleotides are enabling tools in
molecular diagnostics,[1–3] nanotechnologies,[4, 5] and other related fields. Most applications …