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Zhao X, Verma R, Sridhara MB, Sharath Kumar KS. Fluorinated azoles as effective weapons in fight against methicillin-resistance staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and its SAR studies. Bioorg Chem 2024; 143:106975. [PMID: 37992426 DOI: 10.1016/j.bioorg.2023.106975] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2023] [Revised: 10/22/2023] [Accepted: 11/14/2023] [Indexed: 11/24/2023]
Abstract
The rapid spread of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and its difficult-to-treat skin and filmsy diseases are making MRSA a threat to human life. The most dangerous feature is the fast emergence of MRSA resistance to all recognized antibiotics, including vancomycin. The creation of novel, effective, and non-toxic drug candidates to combat MRSA isolates is urgently required. Fluorine containing small molecules have taken a centre stage in the field of drug development. Over the last 50 years, there have been a growing number of fluorinated compounds that have been approved since the clinical usage of fluorinated corticosteroids in the 1950 s and fluoroquinolones in the 1980 s. Due to its advantages in terms of potency and ADME (absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion), fluoro-pharmaceuticals have been regarded as a potent and useful tool in the rational drug design method. The flexible bioactive fluorinated azoles are ideal candidates for the development of new antibiotics. This review summarizes the decade developments of fluorinated azole derivatives with a wide antibacterial activity against diverged MRSA strains. In specific, we correlated the efficacy of structurally varied fluorinated azole analogues including thiazole, benzimidazole, oxadiazole and pyrazole against MRSA and discussed different angles of structure-activity relationship (SAR).
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- Xuanming Zhao
- Energy Engineering College, Yulin University, Yulin City-719000, P. R. China
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- School of New Energy, Yulin University, Yulin 719000, Shaanxi, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, Rani Channamma University, Vidyasangama, Belagavi 591156, India
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Buckley ME, Ndukwe ARN, Nair PC, Rana S, Fairfull-Smith KE, Gandhi NS. Comparative Assessment of Docking Programs for Docking and Virtual Screening of Ribosomal Oxazolidinone Antibacterial Agents. Antibiotics (Basel) 2023; 12:463. [PMID: 36978331 PMCID: PMC10044086 DOI: 10.3390/antibiotics12030463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2023] [Revised: 02/21/2023] [Accepted: 02/23/2023] [Indexed: 03/03/2023] Open
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Oxazolidinones are a broad-spectrum class of synthetic antibiotics that bind to the 50S ribosomal subunit of Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. Many crystal structures of the ribosomes with oxazolidinone ligands have been reported in the literature, facilitating structure-based design using methods such as molecular docking. It would be of great interest to know in advance how well docking methods can reproduce the correct ligand binding modes and rank these correctly. We examined the performance of five molecular docking programs (AutoDock 4, AutoDock Vina, DOCK 6, rDock, and RLDock) for their ability to model ribosomal-ligand interactions with oxazolidinones. Eleven ribosomal crystal structures with oxazolidinones as the ligands were docked. The accuracy was evaluated by calculating the docked complexes' root-mean-square deviation (RMSD) and the program's internal scoring function. The rankings for each program based on the median RMSD between the native and predicted were DOCK 6 > AD4 > Vina > RDOCK >> RLDOCK. Results demonstrate that the top-performing program, DOCK 6, could accurately replicate the ligand binding in only four of the eleven ribosomes due to the poor electron density of said ribosomal structures. In this study, we have further benchmarked the performance of the DOCK 6 docking algorithm and scoring in improving virtual screening (VS) enrichment using the dataset of 285 oxazolidinone derivatives against oxazolidinone binding sites in the S. aureus ribosome. However, there was no clear trend between the structure and activity of the oxazolidinones in VS. Overall, the docking performance indicates that the RNA pocket's high flexibility does not allow for accurate docking prediction, highlighting the need to validate VS. protocols for ligand-RNA before future use. Later, we developed a re-scoring method incorporating absolute docking scores and molecular descriptors, and the results indicate that the descriptors greatly improve the correlation of docking scores and pMIC values. Morgan fingerprint analysis was also used, suggesting that DOCK 6 underpredicted molecules with tail modifications with acetamide, n-methylacetamide, or n-ethylacetamide and over-predicted molecule derivatives with methylamino bits. Alternatively, a ligand-based approach similar to a field template was taken, indicating that each derivative's tail groups have strong positive and negative electrostatic potential contributing to microbial activity. These results indicate that one should perform VS. campaigns of ribosomal antibiotics with care and that more comprehensive strategies, including molecular dynamics simulations and relative free energy calculations, might be necessary in conjunction with VS. and docking.
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- McKenna E. Buckley
- Centre for Genomics and Personalised Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4059, Australia
- School of Chemistry and Physics, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4000, Australia
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- School of Chemistry and Physics, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4000, Australia
- Centre for Materials Science, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4000, Australia
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- Discipline of Clinical Pharmacology, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA 5042, Australia
- Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute (FHMRI), Flinders University, Adelaide, SA 5042, Australia
- South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia
- Discipline of Medicine, Adelaide Medical School, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia
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- Applied Artificial Intelligence Institute (A2I2), Deakin University, Geelong, VIC 3220, Australia
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- School of Chemistry and Physics, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4000, Australia
- Centre for Materials Science, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4000, Australia
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- Centre for Genomics and Personalised Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4059, Australia
- School of Chemistry and Physics, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4000, Australia
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Camci M, Karali N. Bioisosterism: 1,2,4-Oxadiazole Rings. ChemMedChem 2023; 18:e202200638. [PMID: 36772857 DOI: 10.1002/cmdc.202200638] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2022] [Revised: 02/10/2023] [Accepted: 02/10/2023] [Indexed: 02/12/2023]
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Although studies in drug discovery have gained momentum in recent years, the conversion of drugs in use today into less toxic derivatives with pharmacologically superior properties is still of great importance in drug research. Bioisosterism facilitates the conversion of drugs into derivatives that present more positive pharmacological and toxicological profiles by changing existing groups in the drug structure within the framework of certain criteria that have been expanded today. The 1,2,4-oxadiazole ring is used as a bioisostere for ester and amide groups due to its resistance to hydrolysis. However, this ring is not limited to esters and amides, but can also be used as a bioisostere for other functional groups. In this review, cases in which the 1,2,4-oxadiazole ring is used as a bioisostere for various functional groups are discussed. Herein we shed light on 1,2,4-oxadiazole bioisosterism in the development of new drug candidates and in enhancing the pharmacological profiles of currently available drugs.
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- Merve Camci
- Istanbul University, Faculty of Pharmacy Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, 34134 Beyazıt, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Istanbul University, Faculty of Pharmacy Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, 34134 Beyazıt, Istanbul, Turkey
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Xie M, Gao M, Yun Y, Malmsten M, Rotello VM, Zboril R, Akhavan O, Kraskouski A, Amalraj J, Cai X, Lu J, Zheng H, Li R. Antibacterial Nanomaterials: Mechanisms, Impacts on Antimicrobial Resistance and Design Principles. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2023; 62:e202217345. [PMID: 36718001 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202217345] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 63.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2022] [Revised: 01/27/2023] [Accepted: 01/30/2023] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the biggest threats to the environment and health. AMR rapidly invalidates conventional antibiotics, and antimicrobial nanomaterials have been increasingly explored as alternatives. Interestingly, several antimicrobial nanomaterials show AMR-independent antimicrobial effects without detectable new resistance and have therefore been suggested to prevent AMR evolution. In contrast, some are found to trigger the evolution of AMR. Given these seemingly conflicting findings, a timely discussion of the two faces of antimicrobial nanomaterials is urgently needed. This review systematically compares the killing mechanisms and structure-activity relationships of antibiotics and antimicrobial nanomaterials. We then focus on nano-microbe interactions to elucidate the impacts of molecular initiating events on AMR evolution. Finally, we provide an outlook on future antimicrobial nanomaterials and propose design principles for the prevention of AMR evolution.
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- Maomao Xie
- State Key Laboratory of Radiation Medicine and Protection, School for Radiological and Interdisciplinary Sciences (RAD-X), Collaborative Innovation Center of Radiological Medicine of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions, Suzhou Medical College, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123, Jiangsu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Radiation Medicine and Protection, School for Radiological and Interdisciplinary Sciences (RAD-X), Collaborative Innovation Center of Radiological Medicine of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions, Suzhou Medical College, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123, Jiangsu, China
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- College of Environmental & Resource Sciences, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, 030006, Shanxi, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, University of Copenhagen, 2100, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Department of Physical Chemistry 1, University of Lund, 22100, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 710 N. Pleasant St., Amherst, USA
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- Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, Czech Advanced Technology and Research Institute (CATRIN), Palacký University Olomouc, Šlechtitelů 241/27, Olomouc, 783 71, Czech Republic.,Nanotechnology Centre, Centre of Energy and Environmental Technologies, VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava, 17. listopadu 2172/15, Ostrava-Poruba, 708 00, Czech Republic
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- Condensed Matter National Laboratory, P.O. Box 1956838861, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Physicochemistry of Thin Film Materials, Institute of Chemistry of New Materials of NAS of Belarus, 36 F. Skaryna Str., 220084, Minsk, Belarus
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- Laboratory of Materials Science, Instituto de Química de Recursos Naturales, Universidad de Talca, P.O. Box 747, Talca, Chile
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- School of Public Health, Suzhou Medical College, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215123, China
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- College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, National Center for International Research on Intelligent Nano-Materials and Detection Technology in Environmental Protection, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Radiation Medicine and Protection, School for Radiological and Interdisciplinary Sciences (RAD-X), Collaborative Innovation Center of Radiological Medicine of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions, Suzhou Medical College, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123, Jiangsu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Radiation Medicine and Protection, School for Radiological and Interdisciplinary Sciences (RAD-X), Collaborative Innovation Center of Radiological Medicine of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions, Suzhou Medical College, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123, Jiangsu, China
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Hendawy OM. A comprehensive review of recent advances in the biological activities of 1,2,4-oxadiazoles. Arch Pharm (Weinheim) 2022; 355:e2200045. [PMID: 35445430 DOI: 10.1002/ardp.202200045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2022] [Revised: 03/22/2022] [Accepted: 03/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Nitrogen heterocycles play an essential role in medication development. The 1,2,4-oxadiazole heterocycle has been extensively studied, yielding a large variety of molecules with varied biological functions. The 1,2,4-oxadiazole shows bioisosteric equivalency with ester and amide moieties. In recent years, the 1,2,4-oxadiazole nucleus has received a lot of attention in medicinal chemistry. It was thought to be a pharmacophore component in the production of biologically intriguing drugs. This review presents a comprehensive overview of the recent achievements in the biological activities of 1,2,4-oxadiazoles as potential antimicrobial, anticancer, anti-inflammatory, neuroprotective, and antidiabetic agents. The structure-activity relationship and mechanisms of action are also reviewed.
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- Omnia M Hendawy
- Department of Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, Jouf University, Sakaka, Aljouf, Saudi Arabia
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Marzullo P, Vasto S, Buscemi S, Pace A, Nuzzo D, Palumbo Piccionello A. Ammonium Formate-Pd/C as a New Reducing System for 1,2,4-Oxadiazoles. Synthesis of Guanidine Derivatives and Reductive Rearrangement to Quinazolin-4-Ones with Potential Anti-Diabetic Activity. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:12301. [PMID: 34830187 PMCID: PMC8621334 DOI: 10.3390/ijms222212301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2021] [Revised: 11/10/2021] [Accepted: 11/10/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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1,2,4-Oxadiazole is a heterocycle with wide reactivity and many useful applications. The reactive O-N bond is usually reduced using molecular hydrogen to obtain amidine derivatives. NH4CO2H-Pd/C is here demonstrated as a new system for the O-N reduction, allowing us to obtain differently substituted acylamidine, acylguanidine and diacylguanidine derivatives. The proposed system is also effective for the achievement of a reductive rearrangement of 5-(2'-aminophenyl)-1,2,4-oxadiazoles into 1-alkylquinazolin-4(1H)-ones. The alkaloid glycosine was also obtained with this method. The obtained compounds were preliminarily tested for their biological activity in terms of their cytotoxicity, induced oxidative stress, α-glucosidase and DPP4 inhibition, showing potential application as anti-diabetics.
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- Paola Marzullo
- Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche, Chimiche e Farmaceutiche-STEBICEF, Università degli Studi di Palermo, 90128 Palermo, Italy; (P.M.); (S.B.); (A.P.); (D.N.)
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche, Chimiche e Farmaceutiche-STEBICEF, Università degli Studi di Palermo, 90128 Palermo, Italy; (P.M.); (S.B.); (A.P.); (D.N.)
- Euro-Mediterranean Institute of Science and Technology (IEMEST), 90139 Palermo, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche, Chimiche e Farmaceutiche-STEBICEF, Università degli Studi di Palermo, 90128 Palermo, Italy; (P.M.); (S.B.); (A.P.); (D.N.)
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche, Chimiche e Farmaceutiche-STEBICEF, Università degli Studi di Palermo, 90128 Palermo, Italy; (P.M.); (S.B.); (A.P.); (D.N.)
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche, Chimiche e Farmaceutiche-STEBICEF, Università degli Studi di Palermo, 90128 Palermo, Italy; (P.M.); (S.B.); (A.P.); (D.N.)
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Biofisica (CNR-IBF), 90146 Palermo, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche, Chimiche e Farmaceutiche-STEBICEF, Università degli Studi di Palermo, 90128 Palermo, Italy; (P.M.); (S.B.); (A.P.); (D.N.)
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Heteroaryl-Ethylenes as New Lead Compounds in the Fight against High Priority Bacterial Strains. Antibiotics (Basel) 2021; 10:antibiotics10091034. [PMID: 34572616 PMCID: PMC8466554 DOI: 10.3390/antibiotics10091034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2021] [Revised: 08/19/2021] [Accepted: 08/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The widespread use of antibiotics has led to a gradual increase in drug-resistant bacterial infections, which severely weakens the clinical efficacy of antibacterial therapies. In recent decades, stilbenes aroused great interest because of their high bioavailability, as well as their manifold biological activity. Our research efforts are focused on synthetic heteroaromatic stilbene derivatives as they represent a potentially new type of antibiotic with a wide antibacterial spectrum. Herein, a preliminary molecular modeling study and a versatile synthetic scheme allowed us to define eight heteroaromatic stilbene derivatives with potential antimicrobial activity. In order to evaluate our compound’s activity spectrum and antibacterial ability, minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) and minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC) tests have been performed on Gram-positive and Gram-negative ATCC strains. Compounds PB4, PB5, PB7, and PB8 showed the best values in terms of MIC and were also evaluated for MBC, which was found to be greater than MIC, confirming a bacteriostatic activity. For all compounds, we evaluated toxicity on colon-rectal adenocarcinoma cells tumor cells (CaCo2), once it was established that the whole selected set was more active than 5-Fluorouracil in reducing CaCo-2 cells viability. To the best of our knowledge, the biological assays have shown for these derivatives an excellent bacteriostatic activity, compared to similar molecular structures previously reported, thus paving the way for a new class of antibiotic compounds.
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Verma SK, Verma R, Kumar KSS, Banjare L, Shaik AB, Bhandare RR, Rakesh KP, Rangappa KS. A key review on oxadiazole analogs as potential methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) activity: Structure-activity relationship studies. Eur J Med Chem 2021; 219:113442. [PMID: 33878562 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2021.113442] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2021] [Revised: 02/22/2021] [Accepted: 04/02/2021] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is becoming dangerous to human beings due to easy transmission mode and leading to the difficult-to-treat situation. The rapid resistance development of MRSA to many approved antibiotics is of major concern. There is a lot of scope to develop novel, efficient, specific, and nontoxic drug candidates to fight against MRSA isolates. The interesting molecular structure and adaptable feature of oxadiazole moiety which are bioisosteres of esters and amides, and these functional groups show improved resistance to esterases mediated hydrolytic cleavage, attracting researchers to develop required novel antibiotics based on oxadiazole core. This review summarizes the developments of oxadiazole-containing derivatives as potent antibacterial agents against multidrug-resistant MRSA strains and discussing the structure-activity relationship (SAR) in various directions. The current survey is the highlight of the present scenario of oxadiazole hybrids on MRSA studies, covering articles published from 2011 to 2020. This collective information may become a good platform to plan and develop new oxadiazole-based small molecule growth inhibitors of MRSA with minimal side effects.
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- Santosh Kumar Verma
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Yulin University, Yulin, 719000, Shaanxi, PR China; Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Low Metamorphic Coal Clean Utilization, Yulin University, Yulin, 719000, Shaanxi, PR China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Yulin University, Yulin, 719000, Shaanxi, PR China; Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Low Metamorphic Coal Clean Utilization, Yulin University, Yulin, 719000, Shaanxi, PR China.
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guru Ghasidas Central University, Bilaspur, Koni, 495009, Chhattisgarh, India
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Vignan Pharmacy College, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Vadlamudi, 522213, Andhra Pradesh, India
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Ajman University, Ajman, United Arab Emirates; Centre of Medical and Bio-allied Health Sciences Research, Ajman Uniersity, Ajman, United Arab Emirates
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan, 430073, PR China
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Cruz CD, Wrigstedt P, Moslova K, Iashin V, Mäkkylä H, Ghemtio L, Heikkinen S, Tammela P, Perea-Buceta JE. Installation of an aryl boronic acid function into the external section of N-aryl-oxazolidinones: Synthesis and antimicrobial evaluation. Eur J Med Chem 2020; 211:113002. [PMID: 33223262 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2020.113002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2020] [Revised: 11/02/2020] [Accepted: 11/04/2020] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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N-aryl-oxazolidinones is a prominent family of antimicrobials used for treating infections caused by clinically prevalent Gram-positive bacteria. Recently, boron-containing compounds have displayed intriguing potential in the antibiotic discovery setting. Herein, we report the unprecedented introduction of a boron-containing moiety such as an aryl boronic acid in the external region of the oxazolidinone structure via a chemoselective acyl coupling reaction. As a result, we accessed a series of analogues with a distal aryl boronic pharmacophore on the oxazolidinone scaffold. We identified that a peripheric linear conformation coupled with freedom of rotation and no further substitution on the external aryl boronic ring, an amido linkage with hydrogen bonding character, in addition to a para-relative disposition between boronic group and linker, are the optimal combination of structural features in this series for antimicrobial activity. In comparison to linezolid, the analogue comprising all those features, compound 20b, displayed levels of antimicrobial activity augmented by an eight-fold to a thirty-two-fold against a panel of Gram-positive strains, and a near one hundred-fold against Escherichia coli JW5503, a Gram-negative mutant strain with a defective efflux capability.
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- Cristina D Cruz
- Drug Research Program, Division of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 56, 00014, Finland
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 55, 00014, Finland
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 55, 00014, Finland
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 55, 00014, Finland
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- Drug Research Program, Division of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 56, 00014, Finland
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- Drug Research Program, Division of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 56, 00014, Finland
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 55, 00014, Finland
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- Drug Research Program, Division of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 56, 00014, Finland
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 55, 00014, Finland.
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1,2,3-Triazole-containing hybrids with potential antibacterial activity against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Eur J Med Chem 2020; 206:112686. [PMID: 32795773 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2020.112686] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2020] [Accepted: 06/25/2020] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), as a classic reason for genuine skin and flimsy tissues diseases, is a worldwide general wellbeing risk and has already tormented humanity for a long history, creating a critical need for the development of new classes of antibacterials. 1,2,3-Triazole moiety, readily interact with diverse enzymes and receptors in organisms through weak bond interaction, is among the most common frameworks present in the bioactive molecules. 1,2,3-Triazole derivatives, especially 1,2,3-triazole-containing hybrids, possess broad-spectrum activity against a panel of clinically important bacteria including drug-resistant pathogens, so rational design of 1,2,3-triazole derivatives may open a door for the opportunities on the development of novel anti-MRSA agents. This review is an endeavour to highlight the current scenario of 1,2,3-triazole-containing hybrids with potential anti-MRSA activity, covering articles published between 2010 and 2020.
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Paisuwan W, Chantra T, Rashatasakhon P, Sukwattanasinitt M, Ajavakom A. Direct synthesis of oxazolidin-2-ones from tert -butyl allylcarbamate via halo-induced cyclisation. Tetrahedron 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2017.04.063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Caruso Bavisotto C, Nikolic D, Marino Gammazza A, Barone R, Lo Cascio F, Mocciaro E, Zummo G, Conway de Macario E, Macario AJL, Cappello F, Giacalone V, Pace A, Barone G, Palumbo Piccionello A, Campanella C. The dissociation of the Hsp60/pro-Caspase-3 complex by bis(pyridyl)oxadiazole copper complex ( CubipyOXA ) leads to cell death in NCI-H292 cancer cells. J Inorg Biochem 2017; 170:8-16. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2017.02.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2016] [Revised: 01/16/2017] [Accepted: 02/09/2017] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Bolotin DS, Il'in MV, Novikov AS, Bokach NA, Suslonov VV, Kukushkin VY. Trinuclear (aminonitrone)ZnII complexes as key intermediates in zinc(ii)-mediated generation of 1,2,4-oxadiazoles from amidoximes and nitriles. NEW J CHEM 2017. [DOI: 10.1039/c6nj03508f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Amidoximes react with zinc salts in undried EtOAc furnishing the trinuclear species, where amidoximes are stabilized in the aminonitrone form.
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- Dmitrii S. Bolotin
- Institute of Chemistry
- Saint Petersburg State University
- Saint Petersburg
- Russian Federation
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- Institute of Chemistry
- Saint Petersburg State University
- Saint Petersburg
- Russian Federation
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- Institute of Chemistry
- Saint Petersburg State University
- Saint Petersburg
- Russian Federation
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- Institute of Chemistry
- Saint Petersburg State University
- Saint Petersburg
- Russian Federation
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- Center for X-ray Diffraction Studies
- Saint Petersburg State University
- Saint Petersburg
- Russian Federation
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- Institute of Chemistry
- Saint Petersburg State University
- Saint Petersburg
- Russian Federation
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Ferrazzano L, Viola A, Lonati E, Bulbarelli A, Musumeci R, Cocuzza C, Lombardo M, Tolomelli A. New isoxazolidinone and 3,4-dehydro-β-proline derivatives as antibacterial agents and MAO-inhibitors: A complex balance between two activities. Eur J Med Chem 2016; 124:906-919. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2016.09.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2016] [Revised: 09/01/2016] [Accepted: 09/02/2016] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Pace A, Buscemi S, Piccionello AP, Pibiri I. Recent Advances in the Chemistry of 1,2,4-OxadiazolesaaDedicated to Professor Nicolò Vivona on the occasion of his 75th birthday. ADVANCES IN HETEROCYCLIC CHEMISTRY 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/bs.aihch.2015.05.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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