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[209] Novel Anti-tubercular 6-Dialkylaminopyrimidine Carboxamides from Phenotypic Whole-Cell High Throughput Screening of a SoftFocus Library: Structure Activity Relationship and Target Identification Studies.  C. Wilson, R. Gessner, A. Moosa, R. Seldon, D. Warner, V. Mizrahi, C. Soares de Melo, S. Simelane, A. Nchinda, E. Abay, D. Taylor, M. Njoroge, C. Brunschwig, N. Lawrence, H. Boshoff, C.E. Barry, F. Sirgel, P. van Helden, C. J. Harris, R. Gordon, S. Ghidelli-Disse, H. Pflaumer, M. Boesche, G. Drewes, O. Sanz, G. Santos, M. J. Rebollo-Lopez, B. Urones, C. Selenski, M. Lafuente-Monasterio, M. Axtman, J. Lelièvre, L. Ballell, R. Mueller; L. Street, S. Ghorpade* and K. Chibale*.  J. Med. Chem. 2017, 60, 10118−10134
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